Childe Cycle - Chronology

Chronology

The main sequence novels basically fall into four periods approximately a century apart.

• Necromancer: Late 21st century, shortly before humanity begins star travel
• Tactics of Mistake: Late 22nd century, in the early development of the splinter cultures. "Amanda Morgan" takes place at the same time as the crisis of this book.
• Soldier, Ask Not and Dorsai! occur around the same time as each other, and overlap, with some events described in both novels. Late 23rd century, after the splinter cultures have fully developed.
• The Final Encyclopedia, followed by The Chantry Guild: Mid-24th century, as the final conflict develops among the cultures.
• The final planned volume, Childe, was to resolve the conflict which had been set up in the last two books. Its events would immediately follow the events of The Chantry Guild.

Many prefer to read the early novels in the order they were written rather than the chronological order of the events. Specifically, there are elements in Necromancer which are much clearer if one has already read Dorsai!