Fifth Millenium - Reading order


In general, the books are all somewhat self contained. You can read them out of order. 
Saber and Shadow is a somewhat revised and expanded version of The Sharpest Edge. Lion's Heart is somewhat separate from
the others and can be read before Shadow's Daughter. Lion's Soul and Shadow's Son cover some of the same time period, but 
from different perspectives and could be read in any order, though you should try to read Lion's Heart before Lion's Soul.


Fifth Millenium Internal Chronology: 

- Shadow's Daughter
- Snowbrother
- "The Waters of Knowing" (Stirling) (in (novella) The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton)
- Saber and Shadow (or the old version "The Sharpest Edge")
- The Cage
- Lion's Heart 
- Lion's Soul 
- Shadow's Son


The order in which the books were written:

1985 - Snowbrother -- (by S.M. Stirling only)
1986 - The Sharpest Edge (1992 expanded to "Saber and Shadow") -- (by Shirley Meier and Stirling)
1989 - The Cage -- (by Meier and Stirling)
1991 - Shadow's Daughter -- (by Shirley Meier only)
1991 - Lion's Heart -- (by Karen Wehrstein)
1991 - Shadow's Son -- (by Stirling, Meier, Wehrstein)
1991 - Lion's Soul -- (by Karen Wehrstein)