Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Honor in Death | 2015 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 2 | The Path of Duty | 2015 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 3 | Like Stars in Heaven | 2016 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 4 | Victory’s Bright Dawn | 2017 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 5 | Without Mercy | 2018 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 6 | When the Guns Roar | 2019 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 7 | A Dark and Dirty War | 2021 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 8 | On Stormy Seas | 2022 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
| 9 | The Final Shore | 2024 | Eric Thomson | Buy |
Siobhan Dunmoore is Thomson’s flagship series and the fullest expression of his approach to military SF. Starting with No Honor in Death, the books follow Dunmoore from a promising but politically inconvenient officer to a figure of genuine consequence in the wars shaping the empire’s future. Thomson gives her a clear moral code and then puts that code under sustained pressure across nine books, which is where the series earns its following.
The naval setting allows Thomson to work at multiple scales, from the intimate dynamics aboard a single ship to fleet engagements and the political maneuvering that determines who commands them. Books like Without Mercy and A Dark and Dirty War show the series at its most morally serious, while the concluding entries, On Stormy Seas and The Final Shore, bring Dunmoore’s arc to a resolution that readers who have followed her career will find satisfying.