Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earth 2 | 1994 | Deborah Chester | Buy |
| 2 | Puzzle | 1995 | Deborah Chester | Buy |
| 3 | Leather Wings | 1995 | Deborah Chester | Buy |
The Earth 2 series consists of three tie-in novels by Deborah Chester based on the NBC television show of the same name. Published in 1994 and 1995, the books – Earth 2, Puzzle, and Leather Wings – expand on the stories of the show’s colonists on a distant planet. The TV series ran for one season before cancellation.
The tie-in novels gave Chester a chance to work within an established science fiction universe, adapting television storytelling to prose. Writing tie-in fiction requires balancing fidelity to the source material with the demands of novel-length storytelling, a different challenge from her original fiction work.