Series
Worlds (Joe Haldeman)
Joe Haldeman · 3 novels · 1981–1992
Joe Haldeman's trilogy is set among the Worlds, a network of orbital satellite colonies whose half-million residents watch Earth tear itself apart in a devastating war. Beginning with Worlds and continuing through Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time, the series follows New New York's Marianne O'Hara as she's forced to choose between staying to help Earth's survivors and leading her people toward a new home among the stars.
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
Worlds (Joe Haldeman) 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
- 1980s2
- 1990s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 33% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Worlds Apartdarkest · most intense
- Worlds: A Novel of the Near Futurebrightest · calmest