Book 1: BEFORE THE STORMPublication Date: April, 1996 A Bantam Spectra original paperback, ISBN 0-553-57273-3, $5.99 At last word in its nineteenth printing–more than 600,000 copies in print! #4 Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller (paperback fiction, 3/25/96) #7 USA Today Bestseller (all titles, 3/21/96) #10 New York Times Bestseller (paperback fiction, 4/7/96) #10 Washington Post Bestseller (paperback fiction, 3/24/96)

Book 2: SHIELD OF LIESPublication date: September, 1996 A Bantam Spectra original paperback, ISBN 0-553-57277-6, $5.99 At last word in its fifteenth printing–more than half a million copies in print! #4 Washington Post Bestseller (paperback fiction, 8/25/96) #5 USA Today Bestseller (all titles, 8/22/96) #5 Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller (paperback fiction, 8/26/96) #10 New York Times Bestseller (paperback fiction, 8/17/96) Featured on the cover of the Science Fiction Age “Star Wars Special Issue,” March 1997

Book 3: TYRANT’S TESTPublication date: January, 1997 A Bantam Spectra original paperback, ISBN 0-553-57275-X, $5.99 At last word in its twelfth printing–more than half a million copies in print! #10 Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller (paperback fiction, 12/16/96) #13 New York Times Bestseller (paperback fiction, 12/22/96) Nine consecutive weeks in USA Today Top 100

 

More information:

• International Editions Guide and Cover Gallery
• Before the Storm Press Release
• The Black Fleet Crisis FAQ
• “Comes A Black Fleet” by John Vester, Starlog #226 (May, 1996)