Series
Keeps
David Drake, C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1943–1991
Keeps collects a cycle of adventure stories set on a colonized, hostile Venus, beginning with Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore's original 1940s tales of fortified underwater 'keeps' and mercenary conflict on the planet's surface, continued decades later by David Drake in Surface Action and Seas of Venus. The stories follow different protagonists across the same harsh Venusian setting rather than one continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Keeps 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
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s2
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella
3 authors · completed series
reads like:science fictionwarvenus & inner planetsfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Furydarkest · calmest
- The Junglebrightest · most intense