Series
The Sixth World
Rebecca Roanhorse · 2 novels · 1 short story · 2018–2026
Trail of Lightning opens Rebecca Roanhorse's series set after a supernatural disaster destroys most of North America, following Maggie Hoskie, a Navajo monster-slayer navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape of monsters and Native American gods. Maggie's uneasy mentor-turned-adversary Neizghani anchors much of the first book's conflict. Winner of the 2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel, the series continues with Storm of Locusts and draws its cosmology directly from Navajo tradition rather than an invented pantheon.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
2 novels · 1 short story
1 author
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Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Storm of Locustsdarkest · most intense
- Trail of Lightningbrightest · calmest