Swords and Spaceships for December 18: A Celebration of Series

This is the final book of The Poppy War fantasy trilogy, the whole of which is an incredibly tense fantasy series about colonialism and war and the horrible things those both do to people. If you want to give it a whirl, start with The Poppy War.

Final book of The Witches of Lychford fantasy series. Lychford has been a strange place from the start of this five book series, where witches are real and this almost model country village is always threatening to slip into another world. Start with Witches of Lychford.

This is the final book of The Daevabad Trilogy, which is about a canny con woman in Ottoman-era Cairo who finds out that she’s far more than she could have ever imagined, and gets taken into the mysterious world of djinn and immersed deeply in its internecine politics and historical struggles. Start with The City of Brass.

Second in a fantasy duology that starts with The Merciful Crow. A fantasy society with a caste system where the Crows take the dead. A dying king and a prince may or may not keep a promise to change it all.

Second in the duoloy that starts wth The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan. Epic space opera where crews of total badasses just try to live their lives while the galaxy definitely has other ideas.

Third book in The Salvagers trilogy; start with A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe. This science fiction series is about the rag-tag salvage crew of the Capricious, who are just trying to make ends meet out in the black and keep getting themselves into a whole lot of trouble.

Second book in The Blood in the Stars fantasy duology. Start with Spin the Dawn. A girl who dreams of being a tailor poses as a boy to compete in place of her father in a competition to make the magic gowns for an emperor’s reluctant bride. Her craft will cost her more than she can know.

Final book in the Green Creek series; start with Wolfsong. A pack of humans, witches, and werewolves live in a town called Green Creek, defending the people and palce they love from all comers.

This book finished the fantasy duology that starts with The Never Tilting World about the twin goddesses that have ruled the world of Aeon until one sister betrayed the other. Now there’s half a realm of eternal light, the other of eternal night—and the daughters of the goddesses hope to heal their broken world.

Final book of the Chronicles of Ghadid trilogy; start with The Perfect Assassin. A fantasy series about assassins, first tasked with solving a murder, then forced to fight the undead.

Final book of The Harwood Spellbook fantasy series; start with Snowspelled. In an alternate “Angland,” the ladies rule politics with an iron fist and the more softly emotional gentlemen limit themselves to the practice of magic. But of course no one follows the rules…

Final book in the Diamondsong fantasy serial, which starts with Escape. The Ja-lal have prevented contact with the fairies in the forest they guard for many lifetimes, but those barriers are beginning to crumble and the fairies have their own dangerous agenda.