Dave Bara Books in Order
Dave Bara has written 8 books, published between 2012 and 2022. The first book is Speedwing (2012) and the newest is Trinity's Children (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2012–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,034 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 34–51 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,034 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Dave Bara writes science fiction catalogued under space warfare, human-alien encounters, interstellar travel and time travel. Two series carry Bara's name: Lightship Chronicles and Second Empire. Eight books run from Speedwing (2012) to Trinity's Children (2022), taking in Impulse (2014), Starbound (2016), Defiant (2017), Saint Cochrane's World (2017), Void Ship (2018) and Trinity (2021). The median recorded length is 288 pages across seven volumes measured, and no new title has been catalogued since 2022.
How many Dave Bara books are there?
Dave Bara has 8 books, released between 2012 and 2022. They include 4 series and 1 title listed outside any series.
Dave Bara Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Dave Bara books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Speedwing2012 · 214 pages · confirmed 2/420122142/4
- 220143762/4
- 320163602/4
- 420172002/4
- 520173362/4
- 620182602/4
- 720212882/4
- 82022–2/4
Dave Bara books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Lightship Chronicles in order
3 booksTrinity in order
2 booksSecond Empire in order
1 bookVoid in order
1 book- 1. Void Ship
Standalone books
1 book1 Dave Bara title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dave Bara books in order?
You only need to read Dave Bara books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Dave Bara
Start with Speedwing (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dave Bara book?
Trinity's Children (2022) is the newest Dave Bara book released so far.
Is there a new Dave Bara book coming?
No next Dave Bara book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dave Bara at a glance
- Paused
- No new Dave Bara title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Dave Bara books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,034 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dave Bara books, 6 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Dave Bara books are about
4 of the 8 Dave Bara books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: human-alien encounters is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Human-alien encounters 3 of 4 books
- Interstellar travel 3 of 4 books
- Space warfare 3 of 4 books
- Science fiction 2 of 4 books
- Time travel 2 of 4 books
- American literature 1 of 4 books