Series
The Cinder Spires
Jim Butcher · 2 novels · 1 novella · 2015–2023
Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires series opens with The Aeronaut's Windlass (2015), a steampunk fantasy set among tower-dwelling city-states where airships duel with etheric weapons and intelligent cats share the world with humans. Continuing with Warriorborn and The Olympian Affair, it marks a departure in setting from Butcher's contemporary-fantasy Dresden Files while keeping his fast-paced adventure style.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s2
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:steampunkpolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 33% 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
- Warriorborndarkest · most intense
- The Aeronaut's Windlassbrightest · calmest