Series
The Sunset Warrior Cycle
Eric Van Lustbader · 5 novels · 1977–1997
The Sunset Warrior Cycle is Eric Van Lustbader's debut fiction, a five-book science-fantasy saga centered on a warrior-hero called the Sunset Warrior. Published between 1977 and 1997 as The Sunset Warrior, Dai-San, Shallows of Night, Beneath an Opal Moon, and Dragons on the Sea of Night, it predates the Nicholas Linnear thrillers and Bourne continuations Lustbader later became known for.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Sunset Warrior Cycle 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.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s3
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Sunset Warriordarkest · calmest
- Dai-Sanbrightest · most intense