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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2003
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Balanced Sword

1 - Phoenix Rising (Nov-2012)
2 - Phoenix in Shadow (May-2015)
3 - Phoenix Ascendant (Mar-2016)

Grand Central Arena

1 - Grand Central Arena (May-2010)
2 - Spheres of Influence (Nov-2013)
3 - Challenges of the Deeps (Mar-2017)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DARKNESS, THE BRIGHTEST WEAPON IS THE LIGHT OF REASON Jason Wood was just an information specialist-finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from an ...



  • It was supposed to be a simple test flight, one that pilot Ariane Austin was on only as a last-ditch backup; intelligent, superhumanly fast automation would handle the test activation and flight of humanity's first faster-than-light vessel. But when ...



  • A breakout new fantasy epic filled with strong world-building, engaging characters, and wondrous adventure. Kyri: a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. But even as Kyri flees her beloved land Evanwyl, she knows...



  • Leader of the Faction of Humanity. It was a ridiculous title, but the Arena said that was what Captain Ariane Austin was since she'd led the crew of the Holy Grail in their discovery of the impossible, physics-violating place and their eventual retu...



  • In a world of data manipulation and cyberspying, an information specialist finds that the supernatural lurks! A major revision of Spoor's first novel, Digital Knight, with all new material. Being an expert in information searches, image processin...



  • When two old enemies of Oz returned, more powerful than before, only Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, escaped, to bring her father an enigmatic prophecy. The only hope for the heart of Faerie is a lone traveler from the mortal world, who must beco...



  • When Kyri Vantage, Phoenix Justiciar of Myrionar, with the help of her companions Tobimar Silverun of Skysand and the unexpectedly dangerous little Toad, Poplock Duckweed, defeated monstrous killer Thornfalcon and unmasked a conspiracy of treacherous...



  • Phoenix and her companions take on the King of All Hells in a final showdown with the fate of multiple worlds in the balance. The King of All Hells Awaits Kyri, Tobimar, and Poplock had managed -- barely -- to thwart the plans of the mad alchem...



  • The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge. The Arena: filled with mysteries, al...






  • What Would You Give to be a Hero? Stephen Russ is a normal guy who finds himself caught up in a strange world of talking rats and elder gods--and the fate of the world rests on his shoulders What Would You Give to be a Hero? Stephen Russ never ...



  • One Against an Empire Only a psionic can survive battle with another psionic. And human psionics become megalomaniacal monsters. These two truths were drilled into everyone in the Reborn Empire. But… Commander Sasham Varan had survived a Zchoradan ...



  • Godswar 1: The Mask of AresFour Against a GodWhen Ingram and Quester had seen their clients, Lady Victoria Vantage and her young niece Urelle Vantage, safely to their new home, they had thought their work finished, the time come to find new Adven...



  • The Shuttered CountryThe four adventurers had barely survived the assassination attempts of the false Ares. But now the counterfeit God of War has sealed Ingram's homeland Aegeia away, stealing the power of Athena's barrier that even gods cannot pene...



  • Coffee and CataclysmIt was hard enough running O'Reily's-the coffeehouse that doubled as a halfway house for young monsters transitioning back to the regular world. Dylan, as a revenant who'd once been a monster hunter, was all too familiar with thei...



  • The Bill is Coming Due...... on Project Hyperion. Ariane Austin discovers she and her friends Marc, Simon, and Wu Kung are crippled after their battles in Challenges of the Deeps, unable to use their Arena-born powers. The newly-embodied Hyperion AI,...



  • One Against an EmpireOnly a psionic can survive battle with another psionic. And human psionics become megalomaniacal monsters. These two truths were drilled into everyone in the Reborn Empire. But...Commander Sasham Varan had survived a Zchoradan ps...



  • The mission is simple: Find the Lord of All Hells and break his stuff.Follow the journey of five unlikely heroes: Xavier Ross, driven by a quest for justice; Nike Engelshand, battling a monstrous classmate; Toshi Hashima, on the brink of despair; Aur...



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    Imprisoned as a hostage or a bargaining chip, Sasham Varan must rely on his friends The Eonwyl, Sooovickalassa, and Guvthor Hok Guvthor to find proof of the impossible truth: that Prime Monitor Shagrath is one of the legendary Demons, manipulating th...



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    Sasham Varan was a patriot, a true believer in the Reborn Empire. But after a secret project both gave him outlawed psionic powers and revealed that Prime Monitor Shagrath, head of the Monitor Corps and right hand of the Emperor, was a monster hiding...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ryk E. Spoor has published 19 books.

Ryk E. Spoor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Choosing the Players, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Ryk E. Spoor, Digital Knight, was published in October 2003.

Yes. Ryk E. Spoor has 2 series.