J.N. Chaney

JN Chaney is a young adult and science fiction author who loves to describe himself as a “Super Mario Brothers” fan. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and published his first novel “The Amber Project” in 2015. After he served in the US Air Force, he became a full-time author and by 2020 he had become a prolific author with nearly 100 titles to his name in the “Variant Saga,” “Renegade Star,” “Orion Colony,” “Renegade Origins,” “Last Reaper,” “Fifth Column,” “Ruins of the Galaxy,” “Resonant Son,” “Messenger,” “Sol Arbiter,” “Galactic Law,” “Cyborg Corps,” “Deadland Drifter,” “King's League,” “Renegade,” “Ruins…

The best place to start is The Variant Saga series, the earliest of J.N. Chaney's multi-book series: it opens with The Amber Project (2015) and runs to 4 books across 2015–2017, ending with The Vernal Memory (2017). J.N. Chaney's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

J.N. Chaney has 408 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2015 and 2027. 403 of them belong to 54 named series — the largest being the Backyard Starship series with 43 books — and 5 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. J.N. Chaney's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Variant Saga (2015–2017, 4 books), Renegade Star (2017–2023, 18 books) and Orion Colony (2018–2019, 4 books), plus 51 more.

This guide splits J.N. Chaney's 408 books into 54 named series and 5 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Backyard Starship (43 books, 2021–2026); Renegade Star (18 books, 2017–2023); The Last Hunter (18 books, 2022–2026); The Last Reaper (18 books, 2019–2026); Sentenced to War (16 books, 2021–2026), plus 49 further series.