Series
The Android's Dream
John Scalzi · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 2006–2009
A minor diplomatic insult with a genetically engineered sheep breed spirals into a full interstellar crisis when the last surviving specimen of the 'Android's Dream' breed, needed for a critical ceremony with the alien Nidu, turns out to have been hunted to extinction by a Nidu faction bent on provoking war. John Scalzi's The Android's Dream follows ex-soldier Harry Creek as the hunt for a replacement leads him to Robin Baker, an ordinary woman carrying hidden sheep DNA that makes her the key to avoiding a war. It's a standalone comic space opera rather than an ongoing series.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
The Android's Dream 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
- 2000s2
Shape
1 novel · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsnear futurefunnyadult
Mood
Too few works here carry a tone to place this series.
the catalog’s own centre, waiting for company1 of 2 works carry a tone