Collections
Curated shortcuts into the catalog — authors, series, and categories we actually care about.
By Author
Timothy Zahn
8 books
Architect of the post-ROTJ Expanded Universe. The Thrawn trilogy re-ignited Star Wars publishing in 1991 and the Legends-era entries remain some of the sharpest prose in the franchise.
Karen Traviss
4 books
Ex-journalist turned Mandalorian scholar. Traviss’s Republic Commando novels and Legacy of the Force contributions gave Mandalore its modern backbone.
Troy Denning
2 books
A veteran of Star Wars Legends and tabletop fantasy, Denning closes out more Expanded Universe arcs than anyone else on this shelf.
Michael A. Stackpole
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Rogue Squadron, I Jedi, and the foundations of the X-wing novels — Stackpole is the reason an entire generation of EU fans learned to love starfighter pilots.
Christie Golden
1 book
From Fate of the Jedi to Omen, Golden bridges the Luke-Skywalker-as-elder-Master era with the personal, character-forward writing her WoW and Star Trek readers already know.
James Luceno
2 books
The continuity glue of Star Wars Legends. Luceno wrote the connective-tissue novels — Dark Lord, Labyrinth of Evil, The Unifying Force — that make the rest of the EU hang together.
Aaron Allston
2 books
Wraith Squadron, the X-wing follow-ups, and the opening salvos of Fate of the Jedi. Allston brought tactical comedy and ensemble piloting to the EU before his death in 2014.
Drew Karpyshyn
1 book
BioWare’s in-house novelist. Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Dynasty of Evil, and Revan extend the Old Republic era with Sith philosophy and KOTOR backstory.
Michael Reaves
2 books
Coruscant Nights and the Death Star novel — Reaves wrote the gritty, ground-level Star Wars: bounty hunters, dock workers, the people the Jedi never noticed.
Barbara Hambly
1 book
Children of the Jedi and Planet of Twilight. Hambly’s Bantam-era contributions are dreamlike, psychologically textured, and unmistakably hers.
Kathy Tyers
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The Truce at Bakura and Balance Point. Tyers writes Han and Leia as adults with histories and uses the EU’s religious-philosophical edges more than most.
Greg Bear
1 book
Hard sci-fi master who took one Star Wars detour: Rogue Planet, the Anakin-and-Obi-Wan-on-Zonama-Sekot prequel that quietly seeded the New Jedi Order.
Sean Williams
1 book
The Force Unleashed novels and the Old Republic: Fatal Alliance. Williams’s prose tracks the action-game pacing of his source material without losing the EU’s weight.
Vonda N. McIntyre
2 books
Hugo and Nebula winner who took one Star Wars commission: The Crystal Star, an early-Bantam-era oddity that’s become a collector’s curiosity.
Dave Wolverton
1 book
The Courtship of Princess Leia plus the early Young Jedi Knights. Wolverton (later David Farland) shaped the EU’s wedding-and-warlord beats.
Michael J. Sullivan
9 books
Riyria Revelations, Riyria Chronicles, the Legends of the First Empire — Sullivan’s prose is the cleanest entry point to modern fantasy if you cut your teeth on Eddings or Brooks.
Daniel Abraham
5 books
Half of James S.A. Corey, also the author of the Long Price Quartet, the Dagger and the Coin, and now the Kithamar Trilogy. Abraham writes economics and grief better than anyone working in fantasy.
Brent Weeks
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Night Angel and Lightbringer. Weeks writes assassin-philosophers and color-magic systems with hard, propulsive prose — signed first editions are increasingly hard to find.
R.A. Salvatore
4 books
Drizzt Do’Urden’s author and the man behind DemonWars + the Saga of the First King. Also the writer of Vector Prime, the New Jedi Order opener that killed Chewbacca.
Jim Butcher
1 book
The Dresden Files — first-person urban-fantasy noir starring a Chicago wizard. Butcher’s firsts hold value because the early printings shipped small.
P.L. Stuart
2 books
The Drowned Kingdom Saga — a self-published epic fantasy that broke through to indie-darling status, with Broken Binding signed editions becoming desirable in their own right.
George R.R. Martin
1 book
Yes, that George R.R. Martin. Here we carry the Wild Cards mosaic novels he edits — superhero fiction by an ensemble of A-list SFF writers.
By Series
Legacy of the Force
3 books
The nine-book arc that follows Jacen Solo’s turn to the dark side. Written as a round-robin between Allston, Traviss, and Denning — read in order for the full weight.
Fate of the Jedi
3 books
The nine-book sequel to Legacy of the Force. Luke Skywalker’s self-imposed exile, Abeloth, and the last major arc before Disney’s Legends reset.
Thrawn & the Heir to the Empire era
2 books
Zahn’s original Thrawn trilogy plus the tie-in novels that extended it. The canonical starting point for EU-era collecting.
New Jedi Order
4 books
The 19-book Yuuzhan Vong invasion arc. Killed Chewbacca in book one, Anakin Solo halfway through, and reset the EU’s tone for everything that followed.
Riyria (Revelations & Chronicles)
9 books
Royce and Hadrian — a thief and a swordsman whose six-book Revelations + companion Chronicles built Sullivan’s Elan setting from the ground up.
Kithamar Trilogy
4 books
Daniel Abraham’s three-book city-novel about Kithamar, a city that runs on a recurring crime that hides itself. Subterranean Press signed/numbered editions are the most desirable variants we carry.
Lightbringer
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Brent Weeks’s color-magic epic. Five books, Drafters who can pull light into matter, and a backstory that pays out in book four.
The Dresden Files
1 book
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing wizard for hire. Jim Butcher’s urban-fantasy noir — first-printing hardcovers from the middle of the run are increasingly hard to source.
The Drowned Kingdom Saga
2 books
P.L. Stuart’s self-published epic, finished and re-released by Broken Binding in signed/numbered hardcovers. The kingdom of Atalantyx falls in book one and the diaspora begins.
Wild Cards
1 book
Edited by George R.R. Martin: a shared-universe mosaic of Aces, Jokers, and the alien virus that rewrote 1946. Tor first editions of the modern run.
By Category
Star Wars Expanded Universe
42 books
The pre-Disney Expanded Universe — from Zahn’s Heir to the Empire through Crucible. Disney rebranded it "Legends" in 2014 but the canon EU fans grew up on doesn’t need a new name.
Fantasy
36 books
Sword-and-sorcery, epic, urban, grimdark — Riyria, Lightbringer, Dresden Files, Kithamar, the Drowned Kingdom Saga, and the long shelf of fantasy collectibles outside the Star Wars EU.
Sci-Fi
5 books
Science fiction outside Star Wars — The Expanse, the Honorverse, Pern, Doomsday Book, and the Anne McCaffrey / Eric Flint / David Weber back catalog.
First Editions
38 books
First printings of the first edition. Identified by a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Every listing in this section has been inspected and confirmed.
Signed Copies
11 books
Books inscribed or signed by the author, inspected for authenticity against known provenance. Each listing documents how the signature was acquired where possible.
Numbered Limited Editions
4 books
Hand-numbered, finite-run editions — frequently signed as well. Subterranean Press, Goldsboro, Grim Oak, and Broken Binding lettered/numbered tiers.
Science Fiction Book Club
26 books
SFBC editions are NOT trade first printings — they’re a separate book-club imprint. We carry them because they’re the only way some out-of-print titles ever exist in hardcover, and we price them as the distinct collectible they are.
Special & Fine-Press Editions
9 books
Broken Binding tiered editions, Subterranean Press, Goldsboro, Grim Oak — slipcased, foil-stamped, sprayed-edge, signed-and-numbered hardcovers built for shelves and not for reading copies.