Series

Saucer

Stephen Coonts · 3 novels · 2002–2014

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Saucer is Stephen Coonts's techno-thriller trilogy beginning with Saucer (2002), continued in Saucer: The Conquest and Saucer: Savage Planet. It follows the discovery of a functioning craft buried for millennia in the Sahara desert and the test pilots and adventurers who end up flying, and fighting over, it, escalating from a buried desert secret toward wider stakes involving hostile outside interests.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources

The order the books came out.

Best read in the order they were published.

  • Omnibus editions(1 edition)

Map

Saucer 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

  • 2000s2
  • 2010s1

Shape

Mood

Bright and intense: 100% 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

  • Saucerdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense

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