Janet Morris

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Heroes in Hell

Crusaders in Hell (May-1987)

The High Couch of the Silestra

1 - Returning Creation (1977)
2 - Golden Sword (1977)
3 - Wind from the Abyss (1978)
4 - The Carnelian Throne (Apr-1979)

The Kerrion Empire

1 - Dream Dancer (Mar-1981)
2 - Cruiser Dreams (Sep-1981)
3 - Earth Dreams (Dec-1984)

Thieves' World

1 - Beyond Sanctuary (Jun-1985)
2 - Beyond the Veil (Jan-1986)
3 - Beyond Wizardwall (Jun-1986)

Multi-Author Series List

Thieves' World

Beyond Sanctuary (Jun-1985)
Beyond the Veil (Jan-1986)
Beyond Wizardwall (Jun-1986)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Golden Sword

    The High Couch of the Silestra - 2

    With the power to move planets and to travel beyond time and space, Estri of Astria, Hadreth diet Estrazi, must free herself from Chayin rendi Inekte, the cahndor of the Nemarsi, and prevent Mi'ysten from falling under the domination of the Shapers...

  • Returning Creation

    The High Couch of the Silestra - 1

    After a war that results in technological collapse and decline in fertility that threatens the colonists of Silistra with extinction, a new order develops that worships the virtues of fertility and sexual prowess...

  • Wind from the Abyss

    The High Couch of the Silestra - 3

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    This Perseid Press Author's Cut Edition is revised and expanded by the author and presented in a format designed to enhance your reading experience with larger, easy-to-read print, more generous margins, and covers designed for these premium edit...

  • The Carnelian Throne

    The High Couch of the Silestra - 4

    Estri was a god, and the daughter of light. Chayin was a god, and the son of darkness. Sereth was hase-enor, the son of all flesh. Lovers and friends, could they be the prophesied three who would wield the Sword of Severance, Se'Keroth, and ...

  • Dream Dancer

    The Kerrion Empire - 1

    Witch-girl on a backwater Earth. Unwilling heir to the vast Kerrion Empire. Rebel at the deep end of space . . . Shebat Alexandra Kerrion had lived a dozen lifetimes and now she meant to change the future of a dozen universes!...

  • Cruiser Dreams

    The Kerrion Empire - 2

    A young woman is heir to an empire beyond all imagining. The interstellar cruisers become sentient. And universes themselves are transformed......

  • I, the Sun

    From palace coups in the lost city of Hattusas to treachery in the Egyptian court of Tutankhamun, I, the Sun, the saga of the Hittite king Suppiluliumas, rings with authenticity and the passion of a world that existed fourteen hundred years before th...

  • Earth Dreams

    The Kerrion Empire - 3

    Everything you've seen or read till now took you only to the brink . . . Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Janet Morris's Kerrion Empire Series is a stunning amalgam of all three. It is a family...

  • Afterwar



  • Beyond Sanctuary

    Thieves' World - 1
    Thieves' World

    In this Thieves World fantasy, the warrior-servant of the fickle god of storm and war, immortal Tempus, is denied the love of mortal women so that anyone who loves him must die, and anyone he loves loathes him...

  • 40 Min War

  • Beyond the Veil

    Thieves' World - 2
    Thieves' World

    Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror st...

  • The Gates of Hell

  • Heroes in Hell

    (OF COURSE IT'S A FANTASY . . . ISN'T IT?) Alexander the Great teams up with Julius Caesar and Achilles to re-fight the Trojan War--with Machiavelli as their intelligence officer and Cleopatra in charge of R&R . . . Yuri Andropov learns to Love th...

  • Beyond Wizardwall

    Thieves' World - 3
    Thieves' World

    In this searing conclusion to her Thieves' World novel trilogy, Janet Morris takes her character Tempus and his Stepsons into the treacherous lair of Death's Queen. The Rankan emperor's life is at stake, and Tempus's very soul hangs in the balance. ...

  • M.E.D.U.S.A.

    The world hovers on the brink of nuclear war as American intelligence officer Amy Brecker and the M.E.D.U.S.A., a powerful U.S. anti-satellite weapon, become the only chance of intercepting a Russian missile on a collision course with America's manne...

  • Graveyard Shift

    in Rebels in Hell

    All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, a...

  • Warlord

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  • Tempus

    Relive the iconic adventures of Tempus, the Riddler, and his Sacred Band through the eyes of Nikodemos, his right-side companion, as Niko seeks his spirit's balance on Bandara's misty isles. Five pivotal Sacred Band stories from the earliest adventur...



  • Crusaders in Hell

    Heroes in Hell

  • Angels in Hell

    Altos, Hell's only Unfallen Angel, tours the nether regions and observes as Genghis Khan teaches a military historian a lesson, Marilyn Monroe kisses the Devil, Stalin rewrites the Bible, and Napoleon's lover ponders an offer to enter Heaven...

  • Masters in Hell

  • Little Helliad

  • City at the Edge of Time

    Heroic Fantasy Novel #5 in the Sacred Band Series

    Join Tempus and Niko on the triple shores of land, sea, and eternity . . . Where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession . . . Where a prince's refusal to admit ...

  • War in Hell

    The authors cordially invite readers to join them as they guide a stellar cast of characters on this, the tenth tour of Hell. But this trip is not the average descent into the nether regions; this time, they pull out all the stops with stories from f...

  • Explorers in Hell

  • Threshold

    Joe South, a young test pilot heading home from a mission, awakens in his ship to discover that he has traveled five hundred years into the future and landed on the planet Threshold, where he soon finds himself embroiled in the dangerous, deceptive, ...

  • Storm Seed

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    Own the definitive Authors' Cut edition of Storm Seed, the seventh volume in the iconic Sacred Band series. High adventure awaits in Storm Seed by Janet & Chris Morris: - Travel with the Sacred Band of Stepsons to a future undreamed. - Meet t...

  • The Stalk

    In the conclusion to the "Threshold" trilogy, test pilot Joe South meets with the Unity--a wiser, older coalition of life forms--and learns of their plans to pit human political factions against one another. Original....



  • Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

    Relive the iconic adventures of Tempus, the Riddler, and his Sacred Band through the eyes of Nikodemos, his right-side companion, as Niko seeks his spirit's balance on Bandara's misty isles. Five pivotal Sacred Band stories from the earliest adventur...

  • Lawyers In Hell

    Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more hellish as the greatest shared universe of all time makes its malevolent return. Souls you hate to love and souls you love to hate reunite for Lawyers in Hell, in twenty-two infernal tales from the underwor...

  • Rogues in Hell

    Hot on the heels of Lawyers in Hell, the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller, comes ROGUES IN HELL... The war heats up, Satan antes up, and rogues go adventuring as Hell's landlord faces off with Heaven's auditors. Veteran Hellions sin again and new wri...

  • The Forty-Minute War

    A terrorist attack and incompetency at the highest levels of the US government spark a nuclear exchange between the US and Russia. When the US falls silent, only Marc Beck of the State Department's intelligence service has a workable plan to help his...

  • High Couch of Silistra

    One woman's mythic search for self-realization in a distant tomorrow... Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized stars. Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler. "Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure." - ...

  • Tempus Unbound

    Is this the Lemuria of antiquity, or of times to come? Once you've ridden the storm clouds of heaven from the edge of time, anything is possible.Demonic hordes threaten to destroy the very fabric of time itself. The fate of all humanity rests on the ...

  • Lovers in Hell

    Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools. Our damned lovers include: Christopher Marlowe and Will Shakespeare, Napoleon and Wellington, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hatshepsut and Senenmut, Abelard and Heloise, Helen and Penelope, Saint Teresa...

  • Mystics in Hell

     Mystic Madness!Join the doomed on their vision quests in eleven stories by the damnedest writers in Perdition: Janet Morris; A.L. Butcher; Joe Bonadonna; Andrew P. Weston; Gustavo Bondoni; S.E. Lindberg Tom Barczak; Michael H. Hanson; Louis Ant...

  • The Dead of Winter

    The dead rise in the seventh volume of the shared-world fantasy, co-edited by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Myth Adventures series. As winter descends on the fractured city of Sanctuary, it’s expected that the rainy season will coo...

  • Soul of the City

    Dark magical forces are afoot in the eighth entry of the shared-world fantasy series. An ominous black storm from hell rages down on the city of Ranke. Its streets are full of lethal hail, and its walls are coated with ash. As the new Emperor and his...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janet Morris has published 39 books.

Janet Morris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Soul of the City, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Janet Morris, Returning Creation, was published in January 1977.

Yes. Janet Morris has 4 series.
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