Series
Semiosis
Sue Burke · 3 novels · 2018–2024
Semiosis is Sue Burke's science fiction trilogy: Semiosis (2018), Interference and Usurpation. It follows generations of human colonists on an alien world forming an uneasy, evolving relationship with Stevland, a highly intelligent sentient plant, as the colony's survival comes to depend on cooperating with a fundamentally non-animal intelligence. The trilogy follows one continuous colony's history across decades of story time.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Semiosis 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
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
3 novels
1 author
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Interferencedarkest · most intense
- Semiosisbrightest · calmest