Craig Alanson Books in Order

Destroying the enemy gateway was a rare clean win, except the Pirates were too late. Two empowered foes now roam the galaxy in ships that outclass Valkyrie, and Joe must rely on risky schemes and human unpredictability to drag the war back to even.

Disaster turns Operation Olympic from triumph to the Pirates' worst failure, shattering their advantage. With the enemy strengthened and Skippy out of the fight, Joe and the crew must attempt a miracle before humanity's last doorway closes.

When their leader is captured, Kaz's team faces an impossible choice between secrets and lives. The enemy's offer is terrible yet may be the only way to prevent catastrophe, forcing them into desperate measures that blur rescue and betrayal.

Stopping an enemy from stealing a Sentinel and destroying its Elder escort should have been a decisive win. Instead, the Pirates discover their opponent is far worse than they imagined and realize they cannot fight this war alone.

Kaz has assembled the tools he needs to stop an apocalyptic Convergence, except for one crucial detail, how it actually works. To get answers, he and his companions venture into the Nether, a hostile realm where the rules of magic and survival change.

The Order plans to open a stable gateway to the Nether and trade service for godlike power. After too many narrow escapes, Kaz decides to stop reacting and takes the fight directly to the cult before those ancient beings can return.

Closing a portal to the Nether kept disaster at bay, but it also let a dragon slip into our world. Kaz, Duke, and their oddball allies must track a gigantic magical predator through modern America before it eats someone or goes viral on video.

A stunning, unlikely victory should mean celebrations and retirement for the Pirates, but the galaxy does not cooperate. In the aftermath of their biggest battle, a new crisis erupts that only Joe, Skippy, and their friends are in position to handle.

For years, Skippy has been the unbeatable trick up humanity's sleeve, outthinking every rival AI. When the Pirates finally run into an adversary with comparable power, Joe and his crew must help their overconfident partner survive a deadly match up.

After a mission collapses and the odds go from bad to impossible, even Skippy admits the galaxy is doomed. With no clear path to victory, the Merry Band of Pirates slips into failure mode, trying to salvage a few lives from the wreckage.

Kazimir Wolfe is the only wizard he knows, a fugitive drifting across the Midwest in a beat up RV with a Glock and a talking dog. As magic leaks back into the world and monsters stir in the Nether, Kaz is forced out of hiding to confront it.

Lying about the existence of a terrifying super weapon bought humanity some breathing room, but it has consequences. As their bluff starts to unravel, the Merry Band of Pirates must manage the political and military fallout before someone calls it outright.

After years of skirmishes, the Pirates offer their enemies a ceasefire that would keep Earth off the board. When that deal collapses, Joe and Skippy race around the galaxy to eliminate threats while the infant UN Navy searches for much needed allies.

The Alien Legion sends the Mavericks on a new assignment that has them working both for and against the same enemy. Emily Perkins juggles conflicting orders and no good choices as her unit tumbles into freefall behind enemy lines.

After their last mission, the Merry Band of Pirates are battered and on the defensive while bigger dangers close in on Earth. Hostile species have noticed strange behavior in the wormhole network, and their investigation could reveal humanity's hiding place.

Peace is supposed to give Joe and his crew a chance to breathe, but old enemies never got the message. As the Merry Band adjusts to life between wars, fresh brushfire conflicts flare up that could ignite another galactic disaster.

Convinced Earth cannot be saved by cautious moves, Joe and the crew gamble everything on hitting the enemy where it hurts most. Their hunt for a powerful alien ship tests new alliances, experimental AIs, and the limits of Skippy's improvisation.

With Earth finally safe for the foreseeable future, the crew of the Flying Dutchman wonder what peacetime will look like. Back home, new threats erupt that drag UNEF troops, politicians, and Skippy into a fast moving crisis on the home front.

Recruited into an alien Legion, the human soldiers stranded on Paradise are given a straightforward job, clearing a backwater world of enemy forces. Hidden agendas and brutal terrain quickly turn the planet into a true deathtrap.

In the wake of the Renegades mission and chaos on Earth, UNEF reluctantly calls the Merry Band of Pirates back into action. A routine reconnaissance spirals into a confrontation that could decide the fate of whole star systems.

After years of secret missions, the battered star carrier Flying Dutchman finally heads home for repairs and rest. Instead, Joe, Skippy, and the crew stumble into new schemes and enemies that make Earth more vulnerable than anyone believed.

Stranded UNEF soldiers on Paradise are folded into an alien Legion and sent on an off world training exercise with teenage Ruhar cadets. When the mission goes catastrophically wrong, Perkins's makeshift unit must fight to keep Paradise from being wiped out.

Koren Bladewell now knows he is a wizard, but he is lost in the wilderness and cut off from anyone who can train him. As an overwhelming army gathers on Tarador's border, he and a young princess must decide whether to aid those who deceived them.

An elite expeditionary force accidentally triggers an alien civil war and ends up on the run in a crippled starship. With the Flying Dutchman failing and Skippy apparently gone, Joe must keep a desperate crew alive far from any help.

Major Emily Perkins struggles to hold together the uneasy human presence on Paradise while the Flying Dutchman is away. A supposedly simple mission with their Ruhar allies turns into a crisis that shows how fragile the colony's safety really is.

The Merry Band of Pirates set out to learn whether the Thuranin plan to send another ship toward Earth. Their investigation drags them back into the tangled situation on Paradise and forces Joe and Skippy to confront a new threat to humanity.

After the Wizard's Council destroys his old life, Koren knows what he is but not how to control it. As invaders mass on Tarador's borders, he and Ariana race to turn raw power into real magic before their kingdom is overrun.

Joe Bishop keeps his promise to take the captured starship Flying Dutchman back into deep space. Loaded with elite troops and scientists on a mission that looks hopeless, he and a sarcastic ancient AI must keep Earth safe from afar.

While Joe and the Flying Dutchman patrol the galaxy, thousands of UNEF soldiers are marooned on the planet they call Paradise. Sent to check on them, Joe finds human politics, alien agendas, and hard choices that could endanger Earth itself.

When the Ruhar invade Earth and are driven off by another alien race, Army specialist Joe Bishop signs up to fight among the stars. Serving in the UN Expeditionary Force, he slowly learns humanity may be backing the wrong side.

Koren Bladewell has grown up feared as a jinx, blamed for every mishap in his village. When war looms and crown princess Ariana needs allies, they both discover Koren is a wizard and that the adults have been hiding the truth for years.

On the long voyage to the new colony world Valhalla, Kaylee and her brother Manny expect a boring trip with their parents. When thieves seize the ship to steal an alien artifact, the kids become the only ones who can stop them.