Series
Hiero Desteen
Sterling E. Lanier & Lucy Andrews Cummin · 3 novels · 1973–2025
Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero Desteen novels are set millennia after a nuclear apocalypse, following Per Hiero Desteen, a priest-warrior with psychic abilities, as he journeys across a mutated, wilder North America on a quest for lost pre-catastrophe technology. The post-apocalyptic setting is thick with mutated animals and hostile factions competing over what's left of the old world's knowledge. Hiero's Journey opens the series; the later books, including one completed decades afterward, continue his story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Hiero Desteen at the centre, 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
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Unforsaken Hierodarkest · calmest
- Hiero's Journeybrightest
- Hiero's Answermost intense