Series
Coyote Universe
Allen Steele · 8 novels · 8 novellas · 8 novelettes · 7 short stories · 2000–2017
These four novels extend Allen Steele's Coyote setting past the original colonization trilogy, following new characters exploring the wider universe the colony ship Alabama opened up - including Spindrift's investigation of a derelict alien starship and Galaxy Blues' look at a young smuggler navigating a hostile alien bureaucracy. They share Coyote's setting and history but follow separate casts from the core Coyote trilogy. The grouping reads as a loose continuation sequence rather than a tightly plotted arc.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Coyote Trilogy(21 works)
- Coyote Chronicles(2 works)
Map
Coyote Universe at the centre, 2 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
- 2000s27
- 2010s4
Shape
8 novels · 8 novellas · 8 novelettes · 7 short stories
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 31 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Coyote Risingdarkest · most intense
- Stealing Alabamabrightest
- Spindriftcalmest