James Axler

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  • Bibliography:
    208 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1986
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Altered States

1 - Ritual Chill (Sep-2005)
2 - Atlantis Reprise (Dec-2005)
3 - Labyrinth (Mar-2006)

The Baronies Trilogy

1 - Gemini Rising (Jul-1999)
2 - Gaia's Demise (Oct-1999)
3 - Dark Reckoning (Jan-2000)

The Coldfire Project

1 - Shatter Zone (Sep-2006)
2 - Perdition Valley (Dec-2006)

Deathlands

1 - Pilgrimage to Hell (May-1986)
2 - Red Holocaust (Aug-1986)
3 - Neutron Solstice (Feb-1987)
4 - Crater Lake (Aug-1987)
5 - Homeward Bound (Dec-1987)
6 - Pony Soldiers (Apr-1988)
7 - Dectra Chain (Aug-1988)
8 - Ice and Fire (Nov-1988)
9 - Red Equinox (May-1989)
10 - Northstar Rising (Nov-1989)
11 - Time Nomads (May-1990)
12 - Latitude Zero (Apr-1991)
13 - Seedling (Aug-1991)
14 - Dark Carnival (Dec-1991)
15 - Chill Factor (Apr-1992)
16 - Moon Fate (Aug-1992)
17 - Fury's Pilgrims (Dec-1992)
18 - Shockscape (Jun-1993)
19 - Deep Empire (Dec-1993)
20 - Cold Asylum (Apr-1994)
21 - Twilight Children (May-1994)
22 - Rider, Reaper (Aug-1994)
23 - Road Wars (Oct-1994)
24 - Trader Redux (Nov-1994)
25 - Genesis Echo (Feb-1995)
26 - Shadowfall (Apr-1995)
27 - Ground Zero (Jun-1995)
28 - Emerald Fire (Oct-1995)
29 - Bloodlines (Nov-1995)
30 - Crossways (Jan-1996)
31 - Keepers of the Sun (Mar-1996)
32 - Circle Thrice (May-1996)
33 - Eclipse at Noon (Aug-1996)
34 - Stoneface (Nov-1996)
35 - Bitter Fruit (Jan-1997)
36 - Skydark (Mar-1997)
37 - Demons of Eden (May-1997)
38 - The Mars Arena (Jul-1997)
39 - Watersleep (Nov-1997)
40 - Nightmare Passage (Jan-1998)
41 - Freedom Lost (Apr-1998)
42 - Way of the Wolf (Jul-1998)
43 - Dark Emblem (Oct-1998)
44 - Crucible of Time (Jan-1999)
45 - Starfall (Apr-1999)
46 - Gemini Rising (Jul-1999)
47 - Gaia's Demise (Oct-1999)
48 - Dark Reckoning (Jan-2000)
49 - Shadow World (Apr-2000)
50 - Pandora's Redoubt (Jun-2000)
51 - Rat King (Sep-2000)
52 - Zero City (Dec-2000)
53 - Savage Armada (Mar-2001)
54 - Judas Strike (Jun-2001)
55 - Shadow Fortress (Sep-2001)
56 - Sunchild (Dec-2001)
57 - Breakthrough (Mar-2002)
58 - Salvation Road (May-2002)
59 - Amazon Gate (Sep-2002)
60 - Destiny's Truth (Dec-2002)
61 - Skydark Spawn (May-2003)
62 - Damnation Road Show (Jun-2003)
63 - Devil Riders (Sep-2003)
64 - Bloodfire (Dec-2003)
65 - Hellbenders (Mar-2004)
66 - Separation (Jun-2004)
67 - Death Hunt (Sep-2004)
68 - Shaking Earth (Dec-2004)
69 - Black Harvest (Mar-2005)
70 - Vengeance Trail (Jun-2005)
71 - Ritual Chill (Sep-2005)
72 - Atlantis Reprise (Dec-2005)
73 - Labyrinth (Mar-2006)
74 - Strontium Swamp (Jun-2006)
75 - Shatter Zone (Sep-2006)
76 - Perdition Valley (Dec-2006)
77 - Cannibal Moon (Mar-2007)
78 - Sky Raider (Jun-2007)
79 - Remember Tomorrow (Sep-2007)
80 - Sunspot (Dec-2007)
81 - Desert Kings (Mar-2008)
82 - Apocalypse Unborn (Oct-2007)
83 - Thunder Road (Feb-2008)
84 - Plague Lords (Dec-2008)
85 - Dark Resurrection (Mar-2009)
86 - Eden's Twilight (Jun-2009)
87 - Desolation Crossing (Jul-2009)
88 - Alpha Wave (Sep-2009)
89 - Time Castaways (Dec-2009)
90 - Prophecy (Jan-2010)
91 - Blood Harvest (Mar-2010)
92 - Arcadian's Asylum (May-2010)
93 - Baptism of Rage (Jul-2010)
94 - Doom Helix (Sep-2010)
95 - Moonfeast (Nov-2010)
96 - Downrigger Drift (Jan-2011)
97 - Playfair's Axiom (Mar-2011)
98 - Tainted Cascade (May-2011)
99 - Perception Fault (Jul-2011)
100 - Prodigal's Return (Sep-2011)
101 - Lost Gates (Nov-2011)
102 - Haven's Blight (Jan-2012)
103 - Hell Road Warriors (Mar-2012)
104 - Palaces of Light (May-2012)
105 - Wretched Earth (Jul-2012)
106 - Crimson Waters (Sep-2012)
107 - No Man's Land (Nov-2012)
108 - Nemesis (Jan-2013)
109 - Chrono Spasm (Mar-2013)
110 - Sins of Honor (May-2013)
111 - Storm Breakers (Jul-2013)
112 - Dark Fathoms (Sep-2013)
113 - Motherlode (Nov-2013)
114 - Siren Song (Jan-2014)
115 - Hanging Judge (Mar-2014)
116 - End Program (May-2014)
117 - Desolation Angels (Jul-2014)
118 - Blood Red Tide (Sep-2014)
119 - Polestar Omega (Nov-2014)
120 - Hive Invasion (Jan-2015)
121 - End Day (Mar-2015)
122 - Forbidden Trespass (May-2015)
123 - Iron Rage (Jul-2015)
124 - Child of Slaughter (Sep-2015)
125 - Devil's Vortex (Nov-2015)
Encounter (Feb-1999)

The Dragon Kings

1 - Devil in the Moon (May-2002)
2 - Dragoneye (Aug-2002)

Earthblood

1 - Earthblood (Nov-1993)
2 - Deep Trek (Feb-1994)

Empire of Xibalba

1 - Plague Lords (Dec-2008)
2 - Dark Resurrection (Mar-2009)

Heart of the World

1 - Talon and Fang (May-2003)
2 - Sea of Plague (Aug-2003)

The Imperator Wars

1 - Doom Dynasty (Nov-2000)
2 - Tigers of Heaven (Feb-2001)
3 - Purgatory Road (May-2001)

The Lost Earth Saga

1 - Hellbound Fury (Mar-1999)
2 - Night Eternal (Jun-1999)
3 - Outer Darkness (Sep-1999)

Outlanders

1 - Exile to Hell (Jun-1997)
2 - Destiny Run (Sep-1997)
3 - Savage Sun (Dec-1997)
4 - Omega Path (Mar-1998)
5 - Parallax Red (Jun-1998)
6 - Doomstar Relic (Sep-1998)
7 - Iceblood (Dec-1998)
8 - Hellbound Fury (Mar-1999)
9 - Night Eternal (Jun-1999)
10 - Outer Darkness (Sep-1999)
11 - Armageddon Axis (Dec-1999)
12 - Wreath of Fire (Mar-2000)
13 - Shadow Scourge (Jun-2000)
14 - Hell Rising (Aug-2000)
15 - Doom Dynasty (Nov-2000)
16 - Tigers of Heaven (Feb-2001)
17 - Purgatory Road (May-2001)
18 - Sargasso Plunder (Aug-2001)
19 - Tomb of Time (Nov-2001)
20 - Prodigal Chalice (Feb-2002)
21 - Devil in the Moon (May-2002)
22 - Dragoneye (Aug-2002)
23 - Far Empire (Nov-2002)
24 - Equinox Zero (Feb-2003)
25 - Talon and Fang (May-2003)
26 - Sea of Plague (Aug-2003)
27 - Awakening (Nov-2003)
28 - Mad God's Wrath (Feb-2004)
29 - Sun Lord (May-2004)
30 - Mask of the Sphinx (Aug-2004)
31 - Uluru Destiny (Nov-2004)
32 - Evil Abyss (Feb-2005)
33 - Children of the Serpent (May-2005)
34 - Successors (Aug-2005)
35 - Cerberus Storm (Nov-2005)
36 - Refuge (Feb-2006)
37 - Rim Of The World (May-2006)
38 - Lords Of The Deep (Aug-2006)
39 - Hydra's Ring (Nov-2006)
40 - Closing The Cosmic Eye (Feb-2007)
41 - Skull Throne (May-2007)
42 - Satan's Seed (Aug-2007)
43 - Dark Goddess (Nov-2007)
44 - Grailstone Gambit (Feb-2008)
45 - Ghostwalk (Nov-2007)
46 - Pantheon Of Vengeance (Aug-2008)
47 - Death Cry (Oct-2007)
48 - Serpent's Tooth (Feb-2009)
49 - Shadow Box (May-2009)
50 - Janus Trap (Aug-2009)
51 - Warlord of the Pit (Nov-2009)
52 - Reality Echo (Feb-2010)
53 - Infinity Breach (May-2010)
54 - Oblivion Stone (Aug-2010)
55 - Distortion Offensive (Nov-2010)
56 - Cradle of Destiny (Feb-2011)
57 - Scarlet Dream (May-2011)
58 - Truth Engine (Aug-2011)
59 - Infestation Cubed (Nov-2011)
60 - Planet Hate (Feb-2012)
61 - Dragon City (May-2012)
62 - God War (Aug-2012)
63 - Genesis Sinister (Nov-2012)
64 - Savage Dawn (Feb-2013)
65 - Sorrow Space (May-2013)
66 - Immortal Twilight (Aug-2013)
67 - Cosmic Rift (Nov-2013)
68 - Wings of Death (Feb-2014)
69 - Necropolis (May-2014)
70 - Shadow Born (Aug-2014)
71 - Judgment Plague (Nov-2014)
72 - Terminal White (Feb-2015)
73 - Hell's Maw (May-2015)
74 - Angel of Doom (Aug-2015)
75 - Apocalypse Unseen (Nov-2015)

Scorpion God

1 - Devil Riders (Sep-2003)
2 - Bloodfire (Dec-2003)

The Skydark Chronicles

1 - Savage Armada (Mar-2001)
2 - Judas Strike (Jun-2001)
3 - Shadow Fortress (Sep-2001)

Book List in Order: 208 titles

  • Pilgrimage to Hell

    Deathlands - 1

    On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlan...

  • Red Holocaust

    Deathlands - 2

    When all is lost, there's always the future. But the future in a world shrouded in the radioactive red dust clouds of a generation-old global nuclear war depends on finding hidden caches of food, weapons and technology--the legacy of a preholocaust s...

  • Neutron Solstice

    Deathlands - 3

    A generation after a global nuclear war, Louisiana is a fetid, sullen landscape of impenetrable swamps and grotesquely mutated wildlife. Above the gnarled bayous, radioactive red dust clouds race across the sky on nuclear winds; below, thick mud suck...

  • Crater Lake

    Deathlands - 4

    LEGACY OF AN AGE GONE MAD... Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever. Resisting the temptati...

  • Homeward Bound

    Deathlands - 5

    Ryan Cawdor's post-holocaust odyssey across America is about to come full circle Ryan Cawdor is going home. Forced away from Front Royal by a power-mad brother who had already committed fratricide, Ryan had roamed a devastated America searching ou...

  • Pony Soldiers

    Deathlands - 6

    Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors come face-to-face with a specter from the past: out of the swirling dust that was once New Mexico bursts a regiment of pony soldiers, led by a man with flowing yellow hair.

    Brandishing Colts an...

  • Dectra Chain

    Deathlands - 7

    The world blew out in 2001. Vast areas of what was the United States lie beneath an umbrella of noxious dust and radioactive debris, a mantle of destruction drawn over a land of doom. Much of the East Coast has been obliterated; the Southwest is a la...

  • Ice and Fire

    Deathlands - 8

    Snakefish, California, is rich in the currency of post-holocaust America gasoline.

    Almost leveled by the Soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valu...

  • Red Equinox

    Deathlands - 9

    Three generations after nuclear blasts all but vaporized the Earth, a group of warrior survivalists led by a charismatic man named Ryan Cawdor roam the hostile environment called Deathlands.

    Their quest becomes a grim struggle for survival as the...



  • Northstar Rising

    Deathlands - 10

    A century after a global nuclear holocaust, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warriors wander through the tropical jungles of Minnesota, where they stumble upon an abandoned cryonics complex, revive Dr. Mildred Wyeth from suspended animation, and battle a ...

  • Time Nomads

    Deathlands - 11

  • Latitude Zero

    Deathlands - 12

    WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self...

  • Seedling

    Deathlands - 13

  • Dark Carnival

    Deathlands - 14

    Out of the ashes of global destruction, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of warrior survivalists continue their grim odyssey across a nuke-ravaged America, searching for a sanctuary and the promise of a better life. Emerging from a Gateway into Flo...

  • Chill Factor

    Deathlands - 15

    WHEN HELL FROZE OVER... America's legacy of annihilation continues for Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-apocalypse survivors on a quest to find a peaceful new life. Trekking through the ruins of a devastated America, they search for secrets of the...

  • Moon Fate

    Deathlands - 16

  • Fury's Pilgrims

    Deathlands - 17

  • Shockscape

    Deathlands - 18

    HORROR AND HOPE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Emerging from a gateway into the snowy barrens of the Colorado Rockies, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group are forced to strike a deal for survival. This part of white hell is controlled by Baron Nelson, a grief-...

  • Earthblood

    Earthblood - 1

    BITTER HARVEST The Earth is laid waste by a devastating blight that destroys the world's food supply. Mass starvation wipes out millions almost overnight. Society collapses, and those who survive must contend with renegade groups striving for naked ...



  • Deep Empire

    Deathlands - 19

    Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists find a refuge from the horrors of the post-holocaust world at a marine research center created to study dolphins, until they discover that the dolphins are being trained as killers. Original....

  • Deep Trek

    Earthblood - 2

    Returning to an Earth devastated by a deadly cancer, the crew of the spaceship Aquila match wits with a ruthless paramilitary group out to control the entire planet as they search for survivors of the disaster. Original....

  • Cold Asylum

    Deathlands - 20

    FUTURE SHOCK Generations after global annihilation, Kansas is a mutated landscape of dense, deciduous forest. Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the Earth forever. Now it's sur...

  • Twilight Children

    Deathlands - 21

    AFTER THE DAY OF RECKONING Survival is an endless battle in the dark age of post-holocaust America, but even amid the ashes of the past, new pockets of civilization emerge, fledgling communities bound by savage rules. Ryan Cawdor and his band of war...

  • Aurora Quest

    Returning from a deep-space mission to find a ravaged wasteland, the crew members of the U.S. space vessel Aquila make their way through the countryside, struggling to find surviving friends and family on their way to a top-secret base, Auror...

  • Rider, Reaper

    Deathlands - 22

    VENGEANCE TRAIL The red-baked mountains of New Mexico offer a peaceful interlude for Ryan Cawddr, and a reunion with Jak Lauren. But in the violent post-holocaust world of Deathlands, survival is a blood-soaked game--and Ryan's idyll becomes a mis...

  • Road Wars

    Deathlands - 23

    THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come 'between them, the odds for get...

  • Trader Redux

    Deathlands - 24

    Struggling for survival among the remains of a post-nuclear United States, Ryan Cawdor, the leader of a band of warrior survivalists, finds his authority challenged by his former mentor as the band treks across the wasted country. Original....

  • Genesis Echo

    Deathlands - 25

    BLIND FORTITUDE Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fought for and won with blood -- each day alive means another chance...

  • Shadowfall

    Deathlands - 26

    HELL ROAD In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn . . . and the road deep into the h...



  • Ground Zero

    Deathlands - 27

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or thos...

  • Emerald Fire

    Deathlands - 28

    LIFE GONE WRONG The global apocalypse of 2001 did not destroy the world -- only a way of life. Now, three generations after the blast. the indomitable human spirit struggles against the devastation and hopelessness. For one band of survivors, hope li...

  • Bloodlines

    Deathlands - 29

    RITES OF PASSAGE In the aftermath of the apocalypse little remains except age-old evils of greed. perversion and force. But a small group of survivalists cherishes the legacy of human courage and hope. Led by the charismatic Ryan Cawdor, they perseve...

  • Crossways

    Deathlands - 30

    Chains of Destiny Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they strug...

  • Keepers of the Sun

    Deathlands - 31

    Jumping through a secret gateway from their pre-nuclear world, Ryan Cawdor and his survivalist group find themselves in a fallen nation that is shadowed by samurai rulers that threaten Cawdor's world. Original....

  • Circle Thrice

    Deathlands - 32

    Visiting the villa of a powerful Tennessee baroness and her mysterious advisor, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists learn of her skills in the dark arts and her ruthless ambitions to secure her future. Original....

  • Eclipse at Noon

    Deathlands - 33

    Finding themselves on board the remains of a Mississippi pleasure boat, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists enjoy gambling with its genial captain, until the stakes escalate to human life proportions. Original....

  • Stoneface

    Deathlands - 34

    PITY THE LIVING In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firestorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads the courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging bet...

  • Bitter Fruit

    Deathlands - 35

    AFTER SKYDARK In the nuclear-storm devastated Deathlands warrior survivalist of the twenty-second century leads the relentless fight to reclaim a lost world. STONE GUARDIANS Barely escaping from a marauding gang, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post...

  • Skydark

    Deathlands - 36

    PUNISHMENT It's now generations after the firestorm that nearly consumed the earth, but the survivors haven't yet finished paying for the sins of the fathers. All of life suffered, and of those that survived, not all survived well. This cradle of li...



  • Demons of Eden

    Deathlands - 37

    LOST WORLD The legacy of the twentieth century was the world-wasting nuclear firestorm that destroyed a way of life forever. Civilization is in ruins, its pitiful remnants perverted by brute force, and mankind is less at home on the planet than ever...

  • Exile to Hell

    Outlanders - 1

    Two centuries after a nuclear holocaust had nearly destroyed America, banished warrior Kane joins forces with Brigid Baptiste, keeper of the archives, and Grant, a weapons specialist, to seek out the mysteries of the past and uncover clues to humanki...

  • The Mars Arena

    Deathlands - 38

    Just after the second millennium began, a nuclear firestorm changed the face of the Earth forever. Roaming the devastated landscape of the new America, now known as Deathlands, is a small group of men and women who are trying desperately to escape th...

  • Destiny Run

    Outlanders - 2

    NIGHT OF THE WORLD Two centuries after the nuclear holocaust, fortified villes loom in the wastelands, imposing a menacing rule that's shaping the future. SEARCH AND ELUDE As a warrior, Kane served the lords of the villes, but on a punitive expe...

  • Watersleep

    Deathlands - 39

    THROUGH FIERY HELL In the altered reality of the Deathlands, America's coastal waters haven't escaped the ravages of the nukecaust, but the awesome power of the oceans still rules here. It's a power that will let Ryan Cawdor, first among postholocau...

  • Savage Sun

    Outlanders - 3

    THE UNPROMISED LAND Time hasn't stopped after the apocalypse. After the long nuclear winter, a few continue the struggle for survival in the irradiated wastelands. Then, a new order emerges, with a directive to destroy whatever freedom remains in it...

  • Nightmare Passage

    Deathlands - 40

    Ryan Cawdor and his companions find themselves near what used to be Los Angeles, in a village whose ruling baron is Hell Eyes, a powerful, attractive man with a telepathic influence over people and deadly plans for the future. Original....

  • Omega Path

    Outlanders - 4

  • Freedom Lost

    Deathlands - 41

  • Parallax Red

    Outlanders - 5

    A former Magistrate in the grim world of post-holocaust America, Kane embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about a bitter enmity that haunts humanity, but he discovers something even more shocking. Original....



  • Way of the Wolf

    Deathlands - 42

    Trapped amid the hostile mountains and icy tundra of the Arctic Circle, Ryan Cawdor and his team of warrior survivalists face the ultimate challenge when they become trapped in an epic conflict between a group of Neaderthals and descendants of a stra...

  • Doomstar Relic

    Outlanders - 6

    TIME AFTER The passage of time hasn't healed the ravages of the nukecaust, but where once there was only the Deathlands, new centers of power loom above the domain of the unwanted, the hellzones of the Outlands. Though the Outlanders distrust and ha...

  • Dark Emblem

    Deathlands - 43

    Following the nuclear war of 2001, Earth has become a wasteland ruled by anarchy, but when Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers finally locate Dr. Silas Jamaisvous in the ruins of San Juan, they discover what may be an icon of hope for the future. O...

  • Iceblood

    Outlanders - 7

    More than two hundred years after a nuclear holocaust all but vaporized America, a new order evolved from the Deathlands to inflict its - rule on the fortified cities beyond whose walls are the newly christened Outlands. Deep in Cerberus redoubt, Ka...

  • Crucible of Time

    Deathlands - 44

    In the years following the nuclear devastation of America, life favors those who maintain their fighting edge in the lawless wastelands, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers find that new laws of survival have emerged. Original....

  • Encounter

    Deathlands

    War wagon convoy leader Trader, whose reputation in the badlands of post-holocaust America has grown legendary, opposes Levi Shabazz's attempts to build his own empire out of the wastelands, an event that becomes a rite of passage for young Ryan Cawd...

  • Hellbound Fury

    Outlanders - 8
    The Lost Earth Saga - 1

    Humankind faces extinction after the nuclear blasts at the turn of the millennium, until a former enforcer for the new lords, Kane, along with archivist Brigid and magistrate Grant, is catapulted into another reality where they attempt to remake the ...

  • Starfall

    Deathlands - 45

    DIRE PORTENT The forbidding world of Deathlands is the legacy of a doomed age. How it came to be--and why--are questions lost in the wreckage of post-apocalyptic reality. Though survival in this strange and surreal new world conspires to crush the h...

  • Night Eternal

    Outlanders - 9
    The Lost Earth Saga - 2

    Kane and his fellow Outlander survivalists are hurtled into an alternate reality in which the nuclear holocaust had never occurred and come to the aid of a small clandestine group conducting a battle against the forces of evil. Original....

  • Gemini Rising

    Deathlands - 46
    The Baronies Trilogy - 1

    Rumors of trouble bring Ryan Cawdor home to West Virginia, where he'd left his nephew Nathan at the head of the barony. But a welcoming committee is waiting for him with a band of sec men, and a usurper of the Cawdor name. Unable to help a mysterious...

  • Outer Darkness

    Outlanders - 10
    The Lost Earth Saga - 3

    FIRE AND ASHES His new world born out of the fire and ashes of a nuclear exchange, a rogue warrior searches for ways to undo the past. With brother-in-arms Grant and the archivist Brigid Baptiste, he dares to seek out the secrets of time.... Ka...

  • Gaia's Demise

    Deathlands - 47
    The Baronies Trilogy - 2

    On a desperate quest to destroy a scheme to unite the East Coast Baronies under a single totalitarian rule, Ryan Cawdor and his companions journey to Tennessee, where they are confronted by a super weapon from the world prior to the nuclear holocaust...

  • Armageddon Axis

    Outlanders - 11

    ALIEN SPECTER Though the devastation of the nukecaust has long passed, the unseen force that rules the earth's grim destiny watches over the polarized world of garrisoned cities and lawless Outlands. Once an enforcer of the New Order, Kane is a reneg...

  • Dark Reckoning

    Deathlands - 48
    The Baronies Trilogy - 3

    In the epic conclusion of The Baronies Trilogy, Ryan Cawdor faces his ultimate confrontation with the evil mastermind who is planning to use a hightech orbiting transformer to incinerate Front Royal. Original....

  • Wreath of Fire

    Outlanders - 12

    TREACHERY REBORN The nukecaust that gave birth to the garrisoned cities and the hellzones of the Outlands was the calculated stroke of a dark conspiracy that haunts humanity. Now, as this evil specter continues its secret war to conquer what is left ...

  • Shadow World

    Deathlands - 49

  • Pandora's Redoubt

    Deathlands - 50

    Stumbling upon a hidden cache of weapons in Ohio, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivalists take possession of a powerful armored tank called Leviathan, but the weapons draws them into a dangerous confrontation with lady Ward of Novaville, an ambitious...

  • Shadow Scourge

    Outlanders - 13

    DARK PROPHECY Two centuries after Armageddon, the eternal battle between order and chaos continues. Pockets of fortified city states are ruled by powerful barons, plenipotentiaries of humanity's secret enslavers. Half-human hybrids, these inheritors...

  • Hell Rising

    Outlanders - 14

    CATACLYSM The Nukecaust radically altered the face of the globe, and even the secret malevolent architects of mankind's history could not predict the will of the human spirit to survive--and to rebel. As earth's destiny remains pawn to sinister forc...

  • Rat King

    Deathlands - 51

    FRACTURED REALITY What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, h...

  • Doom Dynasty

    Outlanders - 15
    The Imperator Wars - 1

    With their tyrannical oligarchy facing extinction, the nine mysterious barons launch a new campaign to preserve their immortality against Kane and his fellow rebels, but an unseen force arrives to seek a final confrontation with those who seek to rul...

  • Zero City

    Deathlands - 52

    A FUTURE CONDEMNED The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses ...

  • Tigers of Heaven

    Outlanders - 16
    The Imperator Wars - 2

    As the epic struggle for control of the baronies continues, Kane and his rebel forces are forced into a dangerous choice between factions, a decision that could affect the destiny of all humankind. Original....

  • Savage Armada

    Deathlands - 53
    The Skydark Chronicles - 1

    ENDURING CHAOS A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilization in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands. Though the human spirit has not been broken, the new rules of survival are harsh and barbaric. As barons figh...

  • Purgatory Road

    Outlanders - 17
    The Imperator Wars - 3

    GRIM FORBEARANCE The fate of humanity remains ever uncertain, dictated by the obscure forces that have commandeered mankind's destiny for thousands of years. The plenipotentiaries of these ancient oppressors -- the nine barons who have controlled Am...

  • Judas Strike

    Deathlands - 54
    The Skydark Chronicles - 2

    A nuclear endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawd...

  • Sargasso Plunder

    Outlanders - 18

    TORN ASUNDER The brutal struggle for power in post-nuclear America continues for the nine barons who rule the new world order. These emissaries of a long-lost race are facing extinction -- from within their own ranks, and from the rebel forces fight...

  • Shadow Fortress

    Deathlands - 55
    The Skydark Chronicles - 3

    Forged from the Ruins A planet ravaged by the apocalyptic blast of 2001 gave birth to a new world of savagery -- and a new breed of hero. In a land where violence rules with absolute authority, Ryan Cawdor and his wayfarer survivalists roam the st...

  • Tomb of Time

    Outlanders - 19

    VIRULENT DESTINY Eight generations after the atomic mega-cull, a shattered world still struggles to heal itself. The iron-fisted rule of the nine baronies is compromised by an intrepid group of warriors who have uncovered secrets as dark as they are...

  • Sunchild

    Deathlands - 56

    PERMANENT ENTROPY After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope . . . and damnation. In a kill-or-die world, one steadfast group of survivors possesses superior fighting skills and sense of fair p...

  • Prodigal Chalice

    Outlanders - 20

    DESTINY'S HOSTAGE The treacherous new frontier of future America is plagued by civil war among the nine mysterious barons who rule with absolute power. As this race of human hybrids struggles to keep the eons-old yoke of true humanity's slavery in...

  • Breakthrough

    Deathlands - 57

    Merciless Interdiction More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike wiped out nearly all of earth's population, humanity's feral instinct to survive has spawned a savage new America. Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire again...

  • Devil in the Moon

    Outlanders - 21
    The Dragon Kings - 1

    Epic Menace. Two centuries after a nuclear conflagration destroyed one way of life and spawned a far deadlier one, all that stands between extinction of the human race and freedom is a band of renegades who have declared war against ominous forces...

  • Salvation Road

    Deathlands - 58

    FIRE BORN Tortured into existence by a nuclear conflagration, the new frontier of a ravaged America is an ordeal only the most intrepid can endure. Pockets of civilization have emerged, some born of will and hope, while others are breeding grounds...

  • Dragoneye

    Outlanders - 22
    The Dragon Kings - 2

    Lurking deep within the moon, a place of extraordinary power, two ancient entities prepare to battle for control of the earth and humankind, a war that could destroy the entire universe, forcing Kane, Grant, and Brigid to destroy the very beings that...

  • Amazon Gate

    Deathlands - 59

    After Oblivion At the heart of the strange new post-nuclear world known as Deathlands lie the mysteries of pre-dark society -- secrets that may hold the key to a future of peace . . . or peril. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first ...

  • Far Empire

    Outlanders - 23

    RED DAWN When the world blew out in 2001, the secrets locked in its darkest corridors became the answer to humanity's survival. Now, more than two centuries later, a mysterious Imperator prepares to seize his birthright from the nine hybrid barons f...

  • Destiny's Truth

    Deathlands - 60

    TAINTED LEGACY America has been forever alter by the ravages of a nuclear attack that sent it spiraling toward a virulent new destiny -- and by the vestiges of the pre-dark world itself, where humanity's internecine battle between good and evil rages...

  • Equinox Zero

    Outlanders - 24

    While Kane, Grant, and Brigid Baptisite confront the possibility that there is a traitor in their midst, an age-old enemy joins forces with Viking warriors and unleashes the ancient prophecies of Ragnarok to bring about a new apocalypse - one of deat...

  • Skydark Spawn

    Deathlands - 61

    A dark and Brooding land hungrily awaits the next generation... BLIND FORTITUDE Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fough...

  • Talon and Fang

    Heart of the World - 1
    Outlanders - 25

    The Struggle To Save The Future Finds A Treacherous New Battlefield: The Past Imperium of Evil Two centuries have tortured earth's nuke-altered frontier into a grim new world, clasped in the bloody vise of a power struggle between hybrid barons...

  • Damnation Road Show

    Deathlands - 62

    Survive or perish in the dark heart of tomorrow. HELL ROAD In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward...

  • Sea of Plague

    Heart of the World - 2
    Outlanders - 26

    THE CERBERUS WARRIORS FORGE A DEADLY ALLIANCE WITH TWO ARCHENEMIES. . . FUTURE MALIGNED The nine barons who kept post-nuclear America in chains have succumbed to a more profligate evil--an ancient interloper whose bid to destroy all remnants of h...

  • Devil Riders

    Deathlands - 63
    Scorpion God - 1

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those ...

  • Awakening

    Outlanders - 27

    PERNICIOUS ARCHETYPE More than two hundred years after Skydark, the hybrid barons cling tenuously to their waning influence, losers in an internecine war to control nuke-shattered America. A new threat has emerged, one whose intimate knowledge of pre...

  • Bloodfire

    Deathlands - 64
    Scorpion God - 2

    NUCLEAR LEGACY Life in twenty-second-century America is an odyssey of pain and death. Savagely transformed by atomic fallout, what remains of humanity endures an internecine war against those who thrive on chaos and bloodshed. A legend in a violent l...

  • Mad God's Wrath

    Outlanders - 28

    Grim Spoils. Two centuries after the nuclear conflagration, humanity has endured the fallout of a power struggle reaching far beyond mankind's mistakes to a battle as old as time. The failure of the nine human-hybrid barons to fulfill a new bluepr...

  • Hellbenders

    Deathlands - 65

    POINT OF NO RETURN Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born--a tortured testament to a world long gone. Vet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is l...

  • Sun Lord

    Outlanders - 29

    Perpetual Burden Two centuries after Skydark, Earth remains chained to a sinister destiny spawned by hybrids and human traitors manipulating humankind from deep inside the chaos of forgotten worlds. Once a stone-cold protector of the ruling order,...

  • Separation

    Deathlands - 66

    CHAINS OF DESTINY Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they struggle...

  • Mask of the Sphinx

    Outlanders - 30

    Inhuman tyranny The nine barons of post-nuclear America are succumbing to the tides of insurrection, a war that threatens to bring about the extinction of not only the weakening oligarchy, but the entire hybrid race. As the battle for power and te...

  • Death Hunt

    Deathlands - 67

    LIMITED TENURE The treacherous new world of post-nuclear America guarantees no inalienable rights -- no promises of freedom, liberty or justice for all. Instead, chaos and bloodlust thrive -- but so do the innate strengths of the human spirit, and t...

  • Uluru Destiny

    Outlanders - 31

    OMNIPOTENT FORBEARANCE The bid for supreme power in a postnuclear world grows increasingly uncertain as the weakened hybrid barons struggle to protect their territories from a mysterious Imperator who remains a force to be reckoned with. The quest f...

  • Shaking Earth

    Deathlands - 68

    Madness of the gods After a nuclear blast all but vaporized the Western Hemisphere in the late twenty-first century, America became known as Deathlands, a hellhole that has proved itself a formidable foe in the fight for survival--a place where th...

  • Evil Abyss

    Outlanders - 32

    Guardians of Power Shrouded in manipulation and mystery, a deadly order grips the treacherous post-nuclear world, one that conspires to weaken and subjugate humanity as it has for eons. Yet the oligarchy of hybrid barons is slowly losng its power ov...

  • Black Harvest

    Deathlands - 69

    GRIM AWAKENING Shockwaves of atomic destruction turned 22nd-century America into a hellzone, but in the ruins the human spirit remains unconquerable. Daily survival depends on raw courage and a deadly aim, and with his warrior band Ryan Cawdor roams...

  • Children of the Serpent

    Outlanders - 33

    THE DRAGON AWAKENS The nine hybrid barons--mysterious oligarchs who ruled the fortified cities that emerged after Armageddon--are no more. Gone, not by the civil war fought by a courageous band of exiles, but trapped in a web of evil 4000 years in t...

  • Vengeance Trail

    Deathlands - 70

    DAWN AFTER DARKAs megalomaniac barons and savage anarchy compete to lay claim to post-nuclear America, perseverance and a will to live are what keep Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists roving through the worst and best of a new world. Ar...

  • Successors

    Outlanders - 34

  • Ritual Chill

    Altered States - 1
    Deathlands - 71

    BLOOD SUNSET Time, and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature remains: the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and...

  • Cerberus Storm

    Outlanders - 35

  • Atlantis Reprise

    Altered States - 2
    Deathlands - 72

    GLORIOUS FOLLY For Ryan Cawdor, leader of a small group of post-apocalypse survivalists, it's the inner fire of survival that guides them through this hell on earth...to whatever lies beyond the daily fight for existence. There are times when the obl...

  • Refuge

    Outlanders - 36

    UNANSWERABLE POWER The war to free post-apocalyptic Earth from the grasp of its oppressors slips into uncharted territory as the fully restored race of the former ruling barons are reborn to fearsome power. Facing a virulent phase of a dangerous con...

  • Labyrinth

    Altered States - 3
    Deathlands - 73

    NO TIME TO LOSEIt took only minutes for human history to derail in a mushroom cloud—now more than a century later, whatever destiny lies ahead for humanity is bound by the rules that have governed survival since the dawn of time: part luck, part...

  • Rim Of The World

    Outlanders - 37

    The conspiracy of secrecy manipulating post-nuclear Earth takes a terrifying new turn as the mysterious oligarchy becomes something far more sinister. No longer shrouded in the cloaks of hybrid-human divinity, the nine barons have evolved into their ...

  • Strontium Swamp

    Deathlands - 74

    ETERNAL FIRE In their darkest moments, few citizens of the twentieth century could have envisioned the firestorm that plunged the world into the chaos of a nuke-altered reality. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but R...

  • Lords Of The Deep

    Outlanders - 38

    APOTHEOSIS OF MALICE The web of treachery, secrecy and manipulation spun by humanity's enslavers to snare mankind in relentless submission has begun to unravel -- ripped apart by rebels pledged to free Earth from unearthly domination. Renegades by th...

  • Shatter Zone

    Deathlands - 75
    The Coldfire Project - 1

    BLASTED EDENScattered remains have been salvaged from the abandoned cities that withstood the atomic onslaught at the dawn of the twenty-fi rst century, but the secrets of pre-Dark tech buried in the mass grave of civilization are known to only a few...

  • Hydra's Ring

    Outlanders - 39

    CIRCLE OF DEATH The mysterious barons who once controlled postapocalyptic America have evolved into their true entities, inhuman overlords poised to reclaim the planet they were forced to abandon millennia ago. All that stands between the complete en...

  • Perdition Valley

    Deathlands - 76
    The Coldfire Project - 2

    SHATTERED CONTINENT Journeying across the devastated frontier of postnuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions have unlocked clandestine knowledge of preDark tech, secrets that give them an edge for staying alive, an edge augmented by an abilit...

  • Closing The Cosmic Eye

    Outlanders - 40

    The baronial civilization that ruled postapocalyptic America stands on the threshold of a much more sinister plot: the complete domination of Earth. These oppressors are determined to relegate humanity to the status of slavery, and crush the nascent ...

  • Cannibal Moon

    Deathlands - 77

    POUND OF FLESH In the hostile new world of postnuclear America, there are many ways to die, but few are clean or quick. Long ago Ryan Cawdor and his band threw in their lot together--to do or die trying. It was a pact sealed in blood, one of selď¬, ...

  • Skull Throne

    Outlanders - 41

    The calculated new bid for planet Earth by the Supreme Council has changed the face of war for the Cerberus rebels. As the enemy's avarice invokes total damnation of the human race, the battle plan now extends far beyond disarming a group of power-hu...

  • Sky Raider

    Deathlands - 78

    Raw courage and knowledge of the arcane secrets of preDark technology have enabled Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions to live and roam a land tortured--but not destroyed--by apocalyptic madness. In a world where the price of living is paid in fle...

  • Satan's Seed

    Outlanders - 42

    As humanity emerged from the rubble of nuclear war, so did history's darkest secrets, deliberately concealed beneath a cunning web of lies, half-truths and contrivance. Now, as alien overlords ready their blueprint for absolute control over planet Ea...

  • Remember Tomorrow

    Deathlands - 79

    SAVAGE NEW WORLD After twenty-first-century America exploded in the chaos of a nuclear nightmare, a raw new landscape emerged, a world where death and dreams clash. Still, the best of the human spirit endures: the hope, the will to survive. But...

  • Apocalypse Unborn

    Deathlands - 82

    BLACK FLAME Reborn primeval in the fires of thermonuclear hell, America'saftermath is one of manifest evil, savage endurance and lingeringhope. Traversing the lawless continent on a journey withoutdestination, Ryan Cawdor seeks humanity in an inhuman...

  • Death Cry

    Outlanders - 47

    Decades after the nukecaust, Earth's fate remains in a stranglehold. The stunning otherworldly design of the blueprint for domination is crucial to rescuing humanity from eternal slavery. As the Cerberus exiles dare to challenge the planet's increasi...

  • Dark Goddess

    Outlanders - 43

    doom vector Humanity's past lies buried beneath the ruins of near annihilation, concealed by a secret entity and its ancient blueprint to enslave mankind. But at the dawn of a far more treacherous new battle for domination, the war between humanit...

  • Ghostwalk

    Outlanders - 45

    Beyond Redemption The fall of the baronies has led Earth deeper into the darkest days of a bitter struggle as old as the planet itself--a war for righteous destiny. As a force of elite rebels dares to break humanity free from the iron chains of al...

  • Sunspot

    Deathlands - 80

    BELLY OF THE BEAST In the wake of a nuclear Armageddon, the hellscape of Deathlands conspires to torment strong and weak alike, festering most deeply in those who still possess the deepest core of human decency. Now the past lies in the ashes, whi...

  • Grailstone Gambit

    Outlanders - 44

    DEFUANT AGGRESSORS The alien blueprint to claim Earth dates back to eons before humanity became enslaved. Fires of human rebellion have only strengthened the bid to fully secure the chains of iron rule. But the battle that spans time and space has b...

  • Thunder Road

    Deathlands - 83

    A century after the nukecaust, humanity adheres to the most basic laws of survival: live or die. While many plunder and savage for profit and pleasure, others follow a higher bid for promise and hope. Still, the concepts of law and order remain burie...

  • Desert Kings

    Deathlands - 81

    More than a century past the fiery dawn of post-nuclear America, RyanCawdor and his companions journey across a land lost yet reborn, wherelawless violence and human perseverance clash, and unsolved mysterieshint at redemption. Though hope lingers un...

  • Pantheon Of Vengeance

    Outlanders - 46

    Damage Criteria The war to pull Earth and humanity back from the iron grip of slavery shifts against an inhuman enemy both calculating and unpredictable. For those with the knowledge and will to reclaim their planet, a blueprint for survival has e...

  • Plague Lords

    Deathlands - 84
    Empire of Xibalba - 1

    After a century of chaos following the nukes, Deathlands is forming pockets of civilization, aided by predark stockpiles of weapons, fuel and pieces of 21st-century knowledge. But these troves are hard to come by, and survival remains a blood quest. ...

  • Serpent's Tooth

    Outlanders - 48

    Overlords and humanity battle to claim Earth in a war as old as the alien domination of the planet. Yet with each new offensive comes stunning new revelations--exposing mysteries that were unfathomable before Skydark but are now quite real and deadly...

  • Dark Resurrection

    Deathlands - 85
    Empire of Xibalba - 2

    Postnuclear America has changed little since the primal leveling of the twenty-first century. Warrior survivalists Ryan Cawdor and his band live by a code that honors the kind of absolute freedom only a raw frontier can provide. Until rumors of a wid...

  • Shadow Box

    Outlanders - 49

    The collapse of the hybrid-ruled baronies offers a glimmer of hope for an Earth free from the shackles of the alien race that has subjugated humankind since the dawn of time. But the Annunaki threat remains ominous. For the Cerberus rebels, safeguard...

  • Eden's Twilight

    Deathlands - 86

    Rumors of an untouched predark ville in the mountains of West Virginia lure traders in search of unimaginable wealth. They're coming from all directions--the good, the bad, the worst. Ryan and his warrior group join in, although it means an uneasy tr...

  • Desolation Crossing

    Deathlands - 87

    Survival is a dangerous enterprise in the aftermath of a nuked America. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new fro...

  • Janus Trap

    Outlanders - 50

    The Original Tribe, technological shamans with their own agenda of domination, challenged Cerberus once before and lost. Now their greatest assassin, the Broken Ghost, manipulates the rebel stronghold's technology after a secret attack, trapping the ...

  • Alpha Wave

    Deathlands - 88

    In the postapocalyptic world of Deathlands, the past and its way of life are as obsolete as myth. Now the days are filled with death, violence and little promise. Still, the human spirit endures, and a group of intrepid warrior survivalists dare to b...

  • Warlord of the Pit

    Outlanders - 51

    Several baronies have disappeared, and strange disturbances lead Kane and the others to a giant sinkhole in Mexico. There they must confront a self-styled warlord who's using preDark nuclear technology to rule the depths of the planet....

  • Time Castaways

    Deathlands - 89

    In the nuke-altered America of the twenty-first century, time conspires against survival, especially for a legendary group of warriors led by Ryan Cawdor. Born and bred in Deathlands, Ryan dares to unlock the secrets buried deep in the wreckage of a ...

  • Prophecy

    Deathlands - 90

    After the nuclear winter, the taint of humanity worsened in the raw blood-quest for survival. Hunger for jack and power now fuels traders and barons, who relinquish authority only through death, crushing everything in their path. Still, a handful see...

  • Reality Echo

    Outlanders - 52

    The Bluegrass range hides the operating base of a race of monstrous genetic mutants. As Kane and the rebels stage their recon, the shocking new face of an old nemesis aims to wipe out the mountains, and their inhabitants, permanently....

  • Blood Harvest

    Deathlands - 91

    Washed ashore in the North Atlantic, Ryan Cawdor and Doc Tanner discover two islands intact after Skydark, but whose inhabitants suffer a darker, more horrifying punishment....

  • Arcadian's Asylum

    Deathlands - 92

    The brutality of post-nuclear America has spawned a dark frontier where the harsh and unforgiving new rules of existence cannot obliterate the decency and determination that drive the true human spirit. It's tested and tormented but never destroyed. ...

  • Infinity Breach

    Outlanders - 53

    FREEDOM SWATH The oligarchy of Overlords battling to resurrect alien rule on Earth remains ever threatened by a group of rebels determined to meet the ancient Sumerian enemies with a show of force. While glimmers of containment, if not victory, have ...

  • Baptism of Rage

    Deathlands - 93

    Of all the resources Ryan Cawdor and his group struggle to recoup, hope of escaping the grim daily life-and-death struggle has suffered most. But reports of a fountain of youth appear to be true, luring Doc and the others on a promising journey--one ...

  • Oblivion Stone

    Outlanders - 54

    Spread across postapocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled...ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary huma...

  • Doom Helix

    Deathlands - 94

    Devastation from the nukewar shattered civilization and left a planet both primitive and ripe for rebirth -- or retaking. While the balance of power has fallen to avaricious, amoral barons, a handful of humanity still holds hope of a future worth fig...

  • Distortion Offensive

    Outlanders - 55

    STATE OF BECOMING The boundaries of order created by the nine baronies during America's apocalyptic aftermath have fallen away to a new wave of transcending chaos. The deep-rooted conspiracy that shadows humanity has been exposed, the relentless batt...

  • Moonfeast

    Deathlands - 95

    The rocky shores off San Clemente are rife with the sulfur mines that make Deathlands' most valuable asset--gunpowder. To maintain his possession, a ruthless sea baron engages rebellion from the land. Ryan Cawdor finds himself caught in a war he has ...

  • Downrigger Drift

    Deathlands - 96

    BLACK DAWN The nuclear cataclysm that maimed America altered the rules of existence. The new reality guarantees a grim battle for survival, but the higher human instinct to exist in peace and good will lives on. Legends endure and Ryan Cawdor is a wa...

  • Cradle of Destiny

    Outlanders - 56

    Reborn after near nuclear eradication, humanity struggles in a world defined by a secret history of conspiracy, rivalry and inhuman domination. As an ancient powerful race attempts to retake planet Earth, a courageous and sophisticated band of freedo...

  • Playfair's Axiom

    Deathlands - 97

    A legendary warrior of nuke-spawned America, Ryan Cawdor understands the hard-and-fast rule of Deathlands. Where there is life, death is only a matter of time. Still, staying alive is the dubious luxury of being quick, hard and willing to abide by a ...

  • Scarlet Dream

    Outlanders - 57

    The poisonous alien race masterminding centuries of calculated chaos and destruction for mankind underestimated the sheer tenacity of the human spirit. Now these technologically superior aggressors must contend with a dedicated group of warriors swor...

  • Tainted Cascade

    Deathlands - 98

    PRIMAL SALVAGE The blighted aftermath of a global nuclear showdown, Deathlands exacts a blood price. The living pay it; the dead don't care. For one legendary band of warriors, this barbaric new world holds a chance for redemption: the secrets of the...

  • Perception Fault

    Deathlands - 99

    The ravaged landscape that was America two centuries ago is now blighted by post-nuclear holocaust savagery. Still, there remain pockets of preDark technology that may offer undiscovered paths to reclaiming the future. Ryan Cawdor and his companions ...

  • Truth Engine

    Outlanders - 58

    Earth's darkest days have given way to a new age of war. Launched by an ancient and powerful alien race, the battle has morphed through an aeons-old blueprint for domination. But with it has emerged a resilient group of freedom fighters, true avatars...

  • Prodigal's Return

    Deathlands - 100

    America, defiled and reshaped by nuclear carnage, promises little but a struggle for survival. Still, a group of hard travelers trek the worst this hellish place can offer, surviving by their wits, razor skill and knowledge of preDark technology. The...

  • Infestation Cubed

    Outlanders - 59

    SHATTERED DEFENSES On postapocalyptic Earth, humanity fights for survival against alien oppressors. Orchestrating the resistance in an ever-shifting battle, the Cerberus rebels confront a new level of dark manipulation. At the helm, a mind-control...

  • Lost Gates

    Deathlands - 101

    GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE Existence after Skydark is a gamble against grim odds?winners and losers decided by guns, jack and raw nerve. Still, one intrepid group pushes on, working to understand the secrets of preDark tech at the heart of nuke-altered...

  • Haven's Blight

    Deathlands - 102

    The future rose from the ashes of nuke-scorched America with a vengeance. The unchecked wrath of Deathlands pits Ryan Cawdor and his companions against long odds. But their skill as survivors, strategists and warriors is unmatched and they've held on...

  • Planet Hate

    Outlanders - 60

    Centuries beyond the aftermath of a shattered earth, the aeons-old manipulation of humanity has brought forth a new chrysalis of star-born domination. His name is Ullikummis, exiled scion of an embattled but brilliant and calculating inhuman race. No...

  • Hell Road Warriors

    Deathlands - 103

    FUTURE SPOILS The human will to survive has sharpened to a knife edge after a century of postnuclear madness. In a lawless land where firepower and savagery rule, power lies with the barons and coldhearts who wield control through terror. Against ...

  • Dragon City

    Outlanders - 61

    AFTER THE END Humanity has been held in subjugation for thousands of years, manipulated by a cruel alien race. But what began as a game among self-styled gods evolved into an internecine power play. Divided by ego and greed, the enemy faced resist...

  • Palaces of Light

    Deathlands - 104

    LOST VISTAS Remnants of America's past are littered across the postapocalyptic landscape, but little remains of the predark ideals of law and order. Survival is a blood quest, and lethal force the means to power. Still, a handful retains their hum...

  • Wretched Earth

    Deathlands - 105

    INTEGRITY LOST After the Megacull, the weak died off, so that a century later, the living have descended from only the toughest stock. Still, it takes more than strength to survive Deathlands. It takes skill, cunning and a warrior's heart. But for...

  • God War

    Outlanders - 62

    CROSS FIRE OF THE IMMORTALS The Annunaki, a power-hungry and hate-driven alien race, have returned to take over Earth. This time, permanently. And the hard-core human rebels who fought to repel these self-proclaimed gods have paid a terrible price...

  • Crimson Waters

    Deathlands - 106

    NUKE SPAWN Everyone who lives in Deathlands must endure the hellscape of a world mutilated by nukes and madness. Survival is a grim pursuit, achieved only by the most ruthless means. Yet Ryan Cawdor and his companions remain determined to persevere...

  • Genesis Sinister

    Outlanders - 63

    FOUNDATION STONES The epic battle between two would-be gods to rule earth may have ended, but the struggle to survive aliens of near-immortal powers-aliens determined to cage humankind-continues. As the freedom fighters of the Cerberus organizatio...

  • No Man's Land

    Deathlands - 107

    DARK EVOLUTION There's little to remember about life before the Big Nuke, but there's plenty to scavenge in the tainted wreckage of the post-apocalyptic frontier. The barbaric code of survival of the fittest, meanest or dirtiest makes for hard livi...

  • Nemesis

    Deathlands - 108

    CRUEL DISPENSATION Burying the past in a nuclear cull, Deathlands spares no one from its punishing assault. In this grim new reality, there's little to live-or die-for, except the possibility of unlocking the mysteries of the past. Ryan Cawdor and...

  • Savage Dawn

    Outlanders - 64

    OMNIPRESENT MENACE In postapocalyptic earth, the Cerberus rebels fight the forces of alien tyranny over humankind. While the losses are often painful, their victories bring renewed promise. Forging a brave new world from the wreckage of the old, the...

  • Chrono Spasm

    Deathlands - 109

    SURVIVAL INSTINCT Remnants of humanity have managed to regroup after a global nuclear showdown that decimated the planet. But life in Deathlands is a far cry from actual living. And the survivors must believe they'll find something better, because s...

  • Sins of Honor

    Deathlands - 110

    COLLATERAL DAMAGE The survivors of postnuclear America struggle against the free fall into anarchy and barbarism. Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for ...

  • Sorrow Space

    Outlanders - 65

    DARK PASSAGE Dedicated to the survival and protection of postapocalyptic earth and their human race, the Cerberus rebels have forced the invading alien Annunaki into retreat. But defending mankind's freedom to exist remains daunting in a world of...

  • Storm Breakers

    Deathlands - 111

    PLUNGE FROM GRACE In post-apocalyptic Deathlands, America the beautiful has been ravaged by two centuries of nuclear fallout. Here, the American dream boils down to one thing: survival. Ryan Cawdor and his fellow warriors seize each day, armed and ...

  • Immortal Twilight

    Outlanders - 66

    OUT OF THE GASLIGHT Kane and his Cerberus rebels have defied the odds and repelled an alien infiltration by minds of far greater complexity than those of man. But with Earth undefended and ripe for the plucking, a new threat emerges...one that has ...

  • Dark Fathoms

    Deathlands - 112

    DANGER ZONE No place on Earth escaped the nuclear Armageddon that spawned the hellscape known as Deathlands. In a ravaged world where violence and lawlessness rule, a rare breed of hero has emerged. Ryan Cawdor is a lethal fighter who lives by a c...

  • Cosmic Rift

    Outlanders - 67

    ENDANGERED SPECIES: MAN Dedicated to the protection of humanity in the twenty-third century, the Cerberus warriors have repelled numerous alien parasites that would prey on mankind. But the Cerberus team clashes with otherworldly scavengers wield...

  • Motherlode

    Deathlands - 113

    COERCION VORTEX The cost of living disintegrated after America's nuclear cull, and a life in Deathlands -- any life -- is dirt cheap. But those few who manage to stay alive in the savage new reality must travel the hellgrounds any way they can. F...

  • Siren Song

    Deathlands - 114

    PARADISE LOST Crawling from the wreckage of Armageddon, humanity endures, mutated and forever altered. Gone are the comforts of civilization, replaced by a bloodlust to survive. Deathlands is a tortured landscape where peace and hope struggle to...

  • Wings of Death

    Outlanders - 68

    ETERNAL OCCUPATION The quasi-immortal aliens enslaving humanity underestimated the freedom cry of the human soul. Mankind's battle to reclaim its independence is spearheaded by a remarkable group of resistance fighters. And now the Cerberus rebel...

  • Hanging Judge

    Deathlands - 115

    SCARRED FOR EXISTENCE In the Deathlands, the game of survival offers no reprieve. There's nothing to win in nuke-blasted America except the chance to fight another day. Still, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow travelers hope for sanctuary...somewhere. U...

  • End Program

    Deathlands - 116

    HOPE'S ADVERSARY No one waits long for trouble in Deathlands--it's everywhere in the remains of a nuke-altered civilization. The American dream was annihilated more than a century ago by the country's own unchecked power play. But the worst may be ...

  • Necropolis

    Outlanders - 69

    KINGDOM OF HELL The damnation and deception that enslaved humanity was exposed after the earth was razed by a nuclear holocaust. As immortal god kings continue to lay claim to the planet, the epic struggle to repossess Earth rages on. The Cerberu...

  • Desolation Angels

    Deathlands - 117

    BETRAYED BY TOMORROW A hundred years after the nukecaust, the tortured landscape of postapocalyptic America offers a brutal fight for survival. Yet tech secrets lie hidden, useful to those brave and strong enough to believe that hope can carry th...

  • Shadow Born

    Outlanders - 70

    DOMINION PLAGUE Earth remains the tortured battleground of near-immortal aliens. But these god kings never anticipated unified resistance from a group of humans possessing the tenacity and spirit to reclaim their planet. In the ongoing war for in...

  • Blood Red Tide

    Deathlands - 118

    RUINS OF WAR In a nuclear wasteland where death and destruction are the norm, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivors seek out refuge while looking to one another for protection. Civilization no longer exists in the barren Deathlands. There is on...

  • Judgment Plague

    Outlanders - 71

    HUMAN OFFENSIVE Though the Cerberus Rebels have battled unfathomable odds to defend mankind, victory and sovereignty remain far from assured. As enemies of otherworldly origin push the warriors' power to the limit, a very human menace emerges, ea...

  • Polestar Omega

    Deathlands - 119

    ARMAGEDDON'S NOMADS Banded together to survive, Ryan Cawdor and his companions travel the barren wastelands of a post-nuclear world. There are no laws in Deathlands -- only fear, destruction and annihilation. As each day brings a new struggle,...

  • Hive Invasion

    Deathlands - 120

    DUST DWELLERS Seeking refuge in a post-Armageddon America, Ryan Cawdor and his crew of misfits travel together for survival and sanity. Known as Deathlands, this lawless hellscape is defined by destruction, death and despair. Only those who perse...

  • Terminal White

    Outlanders - 72

    ENDURING STRUGGLE The Cerberus rebels remain vigilant, defending mankind's sovereignty against the alien forces conspiring to gain control of the planet. Now a dark and deadly intelligence plots to eradicate what it means to be human: free will. ...

  • End Day

    Deathlands - 121

    TIME WARPED Ryan Cawdor and his six companions struggle to survive postnuclear America, a grim new world where hope for the future is lost amid the devastation. APOCALYPSE REDUX In pursuit of a hardened enemy -- Magus -- Ryan and the co...

  • Forbidden Trespass

    Deathlands - 122

    WEARY WANDERERS In the war-torn wasteland known as Deathlands, desperation and destruction have replaced dreams and peace. Each day arrives with a new life-threatening challenge for wanderer Ryan Cawdor and his fellow band of survivors… F...

  • Hell's Maw

    Outlanders - 73

    HOPE'S BATTLEGROUND Earth's secret history of alien occupation is challenged by a powerful alliance of warriors driven to reclaim humanity's birthright. But when a cruel, vicious ruler spreads a new wave of terror, the Cerberus rebels must fight...

  • Iron Rage

    Deathlands - 123

    DESPERATE MEASURES Since the nukecaust, the American dream has been reduced to a daily fight for survival. In the hellish landscape of Deathlands, few dare to dream of a better tomorrow. But Ryan Cawdor and his companions press on, driven by the ...

  • Angel of Doom

    Outlanders - 74

    MYTHIC PROPORTIONS Insidious alien forces conspiring to enslave humanity grow increasingly dangerous and defiant. Willing to do whatever it takes to defeat these ancient invaders, the Cerberus rebels carry on the fight for freedom. DAMNATION ...

  • Child of Slaughter

    Deathlands - 124

    MORTAL RIFTS When Doc is taken captive by a band of marauders in what was once Nebraska, Ryan and the companions rally to get him back. But they aren't just fighting the local muties. They're also up against the area's terrifying terrain, which s...

  • Apocalypse Unseen

    Outlanders - 75

    BATTLEFIELD EARTH Far in the future, mankind endures the relentless onslaught of alien oppressors, an ancient battle whose tide has begun to turn through the efforts of the Cerberus rebels. This remarkable band of warriors fights an elusive enemy,...

  • Devil's Vortex

    Deathlands - 125

    CHILD OF DARKNESS An orphaned teen with the ability to transform into a vicious whirlwind latches on to Ryan and the companions as they travel through former North Dakota. Her deadly power seems like a boon at first, until it starts to control he...

  • Memory Box

    Continuing from Deathlands 143: Grave Capitol. Catch a Lethal Star. Enlisted for a mission to retrieve the memory of a military satellite that’s been mistaken for an angel by in-bred locals, Ryan Cawdor and his companions head deep into the...

  • Kraken

  • Animal Kingdom

  • Devil's Redoubt

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James Axler has published 208 books.

James Axler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Devil's Redoubt, was published in November 2023.

The first book by James Axler, Pilgrimage to Hell, was published in May 1986.

Yes. James Axler has 13 series.
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