Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans is a renowned American novelist of fantasy, science fiction, high fantasy, and adult fiction novels. He is well known for writing several popular book series, including the Ethshar series, War Surplus series, Lords of Dus series, Obsidian Chronicles series, and The Annals of the Chosen series. Along with writing under his original name, Watt-Evans uses the pen name of Nathan Archer to write mainly science fiction novels.

The best place to start is The Lords of Dûs series, the earliest of Lawrence Watt-Evans's multi-book series: it opens with The Lure of the Basilisk (1980) and runs to 4 books across 1980–1983, ending with The Book of Silence (1983). Lawrence Watt-Evans's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lawrence Watt-Evans has 248 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1980 and 2026. 201 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the Star Trek: Voyager series with 38 books — and 47 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. Lawrence Watt-Evans's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Lords of Dûs (1980–1983, 4 books), War Surplus (1982–1987, 2 books) and Legend of Ethshar (1985–2023, 17 books), plus 9 more.

This guide splits Lawrence Watt-Evans's 248 books into 16 named series and 47 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Star Trek: Voyager (38 books, 1995–2020); Legend of Ethshar (17 books, 1985–2023); The Lords of Dûs (4 books, 1980–1983); Three Worlds (3 books, 1994–1996); Obsidian Chronicles (3 books, 1999–2003), plus 11 further series.