The Reckoners

by Sergey Shikin

Cover for the Russian omnibus of the Reckoners trilogy

This article is about the series of books. For the group of freedom fighters, see Reckoners.

The Reckoners is a young adult series written by Brandon Sanderson. The original series of books included Steelheart, Firefight, Calamity, and a novelette, Mitosis. An additional story about a different group of Reckoners, Lux, was released in July of 2021 as an audio original.

Summary

The setting of The Reckoners series is a twenty-first century alternate Earth. Visible in the sky is a large red object called Calamity, which appeared twelve years before the events of Steelheart. One year after the emergence of Calamity, the Epics, super-powered humans, appeared.

• For more detailed history see Earth (Reckoners)#History
• For book summaries see Steelheart/Summary, Firefight/Summary, Calamity/Summary, Mitosis/Summary and Lux/Summary
• For the board game see The Reckoners (board game)

Books

Year	Book	Order	Length	Notes	Refs
2013	Steelheart	#1	Novel
	Mitosis	#1.5	Novelette
2015	Firefight	#2	Novel
2016	Calamity	#3	Novel
2021	Lux	#4	Novel	Audio original; cowritten with Steven Michael Bohls.

Trivia

• Brandon initially planned another series in the same universe, The Apocalypse Guard, about a group that works to save planets from mass extinctions. The first book, however, didn't work, and Brandon is currently working on revising with the help of his friend and author Dan Wells. He has not fully ruled out a connection to the Reckoners universe, but it is not a priority.

Notes

This meta article is still missing information. Please help The Coppermind by expanding it.