Series
Space Vikings
John F. Carr, Mike Robertson, Terry Mancour & H. Beam Piper · 6 novels · 1963–2021
Space Viking is H. Beam Piper's 1963 novel set in his Terro-Human Future History, following a nobleman's manhunt for his bride's killer across the fringes of a collapsed interstellar civilization, where raiding 'Space Vikings' fill the power vacuum an empire's fall left behind. Decades later, other writers — among them John F. Carr and Terry Mancour — added further novels continuing Piper's setting, extending it well past Piper's own death in 1964.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Space Vikings at the centre, 1 subseries around it, 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
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s4
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Space Viking's Thronedarkest · most intense
- The Last Space Vikingbrightest
- Space Vikingcalmest