Anthony Ryan

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Age of Wrath

1 - A Tide of Black Steel (Sep-2024)

The Covenant of Steel

1 - The Pariah (Aug-2021)
2 - The Martyr (Jul-2022)
3 - The Traitor (Jul-2023)

Draconis Memoria

1 - The Waking Fire (Jul-2016)
2 - The Legion of Flame (Jul-2017)
3 - The Empire of Ashes (Jul-2018)

Guyime

1 - A Pilgrimage of Swords (Oct-2019)
2 - The Kraken's Tooth (Oct-2020)
3 - City of Songs (Oct-2021)

A Raven's Blade Novel

1 - The Wolf's Call (Jul-2019)
2 - The Black Song (Aug-2020)

A Raven's Shadow Novel

1 - Blood Song (Jul-2013)
2 - Tower Lord (Jul-2014)
3 - Queen of Fire (Jul-2015)
3.5 - The Lord Collector (Feb-2016)
3.6 - A Duel of Evils (May-2017)
3.7 - Many Are the Dead (Nov-2018)

Slab City Blues

1 - Slab City Blues (Apr-2011)
2 - A Song for Madame Choi (May-2011)
3 - A Hymn to Gods Long Dead (Mar-2012)
4 - The Ballad of Bad Jack (Feb-2013)
5 - An Aria for Ragnarok (Oct-2015)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Slab City Blues

    Slab City Blues - 1

    The Asteroid Belt, home to mining corporations and those who prefer to live beyond the heavily policed habitats of Earth orbit - the perfect hunting ground for Bad Jack, captain of the Dead Reckoning and the most feared pirate in the solar system. Ab...

  • A Song for Madame Choi

    Slab City Blues - 2

    Welcome to the Slab. A vast orbiting slum where rats grow big and sweat falls in rain. An old enemy has embroiled recently widowed Inspector Alex McLeod in the hunt for a kidnapped girl. With no leads he finds himself reluctantly seeking help from dr...

  • A Hymn to Gods Long Dead

    Slab City Blues - 3

    The Slab. A vast orbiting slum where sweat falls in rain and the gene-spliced come in all shapes and sizes. Inspector Alex McLeod, recently suspended for excessive force and nurturing a growing addiction to bourbon, has been reduced to tending bar...

  • Candle and Sun

    A teenage thief comes stealing at the home of the oldest man on earth...the old man shares his ancient wisdom, and the young man starts on his true path....

  • The Ballad of Bad Jack

    Slab City Blues - 4

    The Asteroid Belt, home to mining corporations and those who prefer to live beyond the heavily policed habitats of Earth orbit - the perfect hunting ground for Bad Jack, captain of the Dead Reckoning and the most feared pirate in the solar system....

  • Blood Song

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 1

    The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm. Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to bat...

  • Ordinary Powers

  • Tunnel Visions

  • Tower Lord

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 2

    Ryan’s epic tale continues as Vaelin Al Sorna discovers that there is no escape from the call of destiny... "The blood-song rose with an unexpected tune, a warm hum mingling recognition with an impression of safety. He had a sense it was welcom...



  • Queen of Fire

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 3

    Vaelin Al Sorna must help his Queen reclaim her Realm. Only his enemy has a dangerous new collaborator, one with powers darker than Vaelin has ever encountered… “The Ally is there, but only ever as a shadow, unexplained catastrophe or murder c...

  • An Aria for Ragnarok

    Slab City Blues - 5

    The fifth and final story in the SF Noir series from Anthony Ryan, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Raven's Shadow Series.Alex McLeod has a score to settle. Back on the Slab and newly promoted to head of Special Homicide, Al...

  • The Lord Collector

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 3.5

    Author's Note - The following story takes place in the same world as my novel Blood Song, the first volume in the Raven’s Shadow trilogy. I wrote it because I wanted to more fully explore characters who appear in Blood Song and the sequels Tower Lo...

  • The Waking Fire

    Draconis Memoria - 1

    Throughout the vast lands controlled by the Ironship Trading Syndicate, nothing is more prized than the blood of drakes. Harvested from captive or hunted Reds, Greens, Blues and Blacks, it can be distilled into elixirs that bestow fearsome powers on ...

  • Sandrunners

    A short story set in The Draconis Memoria universe created by New York Times Bestselling author Anthony Ryan.In this prequel story to The Waking Fire, newly graduated Blood-blessed Ethelynne Drystone accompanies the Sandrunners Independent Contractor...

  • Go-Go Boy

    "Life's tough when you're a teenager. So just strip off your clothes, and dance like no one's watching!" Rory gulped, stood solid, and for the first time in his teenage life, answered his headmaster back. From then on, everything changed. Before, he ...

  • A Duel of Evils

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 3.6

    Legendary warrior King Tavurek marshals his mercenary army to combat a mighty Volarian host led by a man known to history as the Spear-point. In the blood-bath that follows, there can be only one victor. The final battle between the city state of Ket...

  • The Legion of Flame

    Draconis Memoria - 2

    Empires clash and a fell power stakes its claim in the second in a new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Raven's Shadow Trilogy. For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood -- and the extraordina...

  • The Empire of Ashes

    Draconis Memoria - 3

    In the White Drake's war, the price of freedom is paid in blood and fire... For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fueled by drake blood--and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers...

  • Many Are the Dead

    A Raven's Shadow Novel - 3.7

    “The Faith requires all we have.”New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan returns to the Raven’s Shadow world in this prequel novella set ten years before the events in Blood Song. For decades the brothers of the Sixth Order have fought a...



  • The Wolf's Call

    A Raven's Blade Novel - 1

    VAELIN AL SORNA RETURNS Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song -- the first book of the Raven's Shadow series -- took the fantasy world by storm. Now, he continues that saga with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling new story of ra...

  • A Pilgrimage of Swords

    Guyime - 1

    ENTER THE EXECRATION,WHERE THE DAMNED AND THE DESPERATECOME TO PRAY TO THE MAD GOD…It is two hundred years since the deity known as the Absolved went mad and destroyed the Kingdom of Alnachim, transforming it into the Execration, a blasted wastelan...

  • The Black Song

    A Raven's Blade Novel - 2

    A matchless warrior is pitted against a near-God in the second epic installment of the Raven’s Blade series. It has long been our lot in life, brother, to do what others can’t. Vaelin Al Sorna was known across the realm as the greatest o...

  • The Kraken's Tooth

    Guyime - 2

    THE GREAT MERCHANT CITY OF CARTHULA -- RAISED FROM THE BONES OF A KRAKEN ON THE WHIM OF A GODDESSWHERE NOBLE HOUSES CALL UPON DARK MAGIC TO TRIUMPH IN THEIR ENDLESS AND DEADLY GAME FOR DOMINION... Landless one-time king Guyime, once called Pilgrim...

  • Songs of the Dark

    Heard whispers of the Dark all my life. It's a strange feeling when a whisper becomes a shout. SONGS OF THE DARK collects all four novellas from the world of Anthony Ryan's internationally best-selling Raven's Shadow trilogy.Centuries before the rise...

  • The Pariah

    The Covenant of Steel - 1

    From the international best-selling author of the Raven''s Shadow and Draconis Memoria series comes the spectacular first novel in an all-new epic fantasy trilogy.Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised a...

  • City of Songs

    Guyime - 3

    Atheria - the fabled City of Songs. The shining jewel of the third sea where the masked Exultia caste hold sway and vie to outdo each other in their patronage of the arts, sometimes with deadly consequences....Guyime, wandering, dethroned king of the...

  • Fire Wings

    For centuries the Sentinel Eyrie has stood watch over the Maw, the foul lair of the Voice and its monstrous servants. Long have the dishonoured and the damned journeyed to the Eyrie in search of restored honour. Shamil, disgraced warrior from the so...

  • The Martyr

    The Covenant of Steel - 2

    Deadly feuds and ancient secrets spell war in the second novel of The Covenant of Steel, a new epic series of action, intrigue, and magic from a master storyteller who has taken the fantasy world by storm."Ryan again showcases his gift for epic fanta...

  • To Blackfyre Keep

    GUYIME—DEMON CURSED WIELDER OF THE NAMELESS BLADE—FOLLOWS THE TRAIL OF THE FABLED SEVEN SWORDS INTO THE TROUBLED NORTHLANDS, A REALM WHERE HE WAS ONCE CALLED KING...AND RAVAGER.Magically guided to enlist in the retinue of a lovesick kni...



  • The Traitor

    The Covenant of Steel - 3

    "A gritty, heart-pounding tale of betrayal and bloody vengeance. I loved every single word." - John Gwynne on The PariahThe Traitor is the final novel in The Covenant of Steel trilogy, an epic fantasy series of action, intrigue, and magic f...

  • Across the Sorrow Sea

    THE SORROW SEA—THE MOST FEARED REGION IN ALL THE FIVE SEAS—PLAGUED BY STORMS, PROWLED BY A MURDEROUS PIRATE KING, AND HOME TO INHUMAN TERRORS.Continuing their quest for the Seven Swords, legendary warrior Guyime and his companions must ...

  • The Road of Storms

    THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF ALCEDON, THE SUN-BLESSED REALM WHICH HAS KNOWN ONLY PEACE FOR GENERATIONS, NOW BESET BY BLOODY REBELLION SPARKED BY THE EMERGENCE OF AN ANCIENT EVIL...Into this troubled land comes Guyime, legendary ravager king of the north ma...

  • A Tide of Black Steel

    Age of Wrath - 1

    From the international bestselling author Anthony Ryan comes the spectacular first novel in a new epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Norse mythology. A new age has dawned. An age of blood and steel. An age of wrath. "A gripping epic." ""P...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anthony Ryan has published 33 books.

Anthony Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Tide of Black Steel, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Anthony Ryan, Slab City Blues, was published in April 2011.

Yes. Anthony Ryan has 7 series.
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