Series
Neverness
David Zindell · 2 novels · 1 novelette · 1985–2023
David Zindell's Neverness (1988) is a science fiction novel drawing on Arthurian legend, imagining interstellar 'pilots' as knights on a quest through exotic mathematics and myth for the secret of immortality. It grew out of Zindell's 1985 award-winning novelette 'Shanidar' and was followed by the sequel The Remembrancer's Tale.
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The order the books came out.
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Neverness 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.
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By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
2 novels · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Remembrancer's Taledarkest · calmest
- Shanidarbrightest · most intense