Series
Noumena
Lindsay Ellis · 3 novels · 2020–2024
Lindsay Ellis' Noumena series began with Axiom's End (2020), an alternate-history science-fiction novel set in 2007 about a US government cover-up of contact with extraterrestrial life, centered on a young woman named Cora. It continues through Truth of the Divine (2021) and Apostles of Mercy (2024), the third of five planned volumes, following the fallout of that first contact.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Noumena 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
- 2020s3
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
- Axiom's Enddarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense