Series
Karres
Dave Freer, Eric Flint, James H. Schmitz & Mercedes Lackey · 4 novels · 1 novelette · 1949–2020
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz's 1966 space opera, follows a young merchant-ship captain who impulsively frees three strange sisters from indentured servitude and finds himself dragged into interdimensional invaders, space pirates, and magic far stranger than his cargo runs prepared him for. Schmitz never wrote a follow-up himself, but the story was continued decades later by other hands — The Wizard of Karres, The Sorceress of Karres, The Shaman of Karres — carrying Captain Pausert and the Karres witches forward.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Karres 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
- 1940s1
- 1950s0
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% 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
- The Witches of Karresdarkest · most intense
- The Witches of Karresbrightest · calmest