Series
The Imperials Saga
Melinda M. Snodgrass · 5 novels · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 2009–2023
The Imperials Saga is Melinda M. Snodgrass's military space-opera series opening with The High Ground, continuing through In Evil Times, The Hidden World, Currency of War and The Thucydides Trap. It follows a young officer navigating an empire's rigid caste system and interstellar warfare against nonhuman powers, where politics inside the fleet prove as dangerous as the enemy outside it. The five novels track one continuous career and conflict.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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The Imperials Saga 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
- 2000s1
- 2010s5
- 2020s2
Shape
5 novels · 2 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguespacefar futureemotionaladult
Mood
Grim and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Hands That Are Not Theredarkest
- The Thucydides Trapbrightest
- The Wayfarer's Advicecalmest
- The High Groundmost intense