Series
Humanity's Fire
Michael Cobley · 5 novels · 2009–2018
Michael Cobley's Humanity's Fire trilogy, opening with Seeds of Earth, follows the descendants of a human colony that lost contact with Earth generations earlier, who must contend with returning Earth authorities, alien empires, and a buried ancient danger beneath their adopted homeworld. Two further novels, Ancestral Machines and Splintered Suns, continue the setting afterward.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Humanity's Fire 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
- 2000s1
- 2010s4
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Ancestral Machinesdarkest · most intense
- Seeds of Earthbrightest · calmest