Series
Avery Cates
Jeff Somers · 5 novels · 1 novella · 6 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections · 2007–2022
Avery Cates is set in a collapsed future New York ruled by a corrupt, cybernetically augmented security state, following a gun-for-hire navigating the city's violent underworld and its growing rebellion against System Security Force control. Jeff Somers' cyberpunk series, beginning with The Electric Church, follows Cates through escalating jobs and betrayals across six novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Avery Cates at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s3
- 2010s17
- 2020s2
Shape
5 novels · 1 novella · 6 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:science fictionsurvivalour worldnear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Electric Churchdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense