The series
Gemmell's worlds and series
Gemmell wrote in several worlds rather than one long saga. The Drenai books share a country and its history across centuries; the Stones of Power link Arthurian Britain, a ruined future America and ancient Macedon; the Rigante and Troy stand apart. Each series page explains how its books connect and where to begin.
Drenai
Eleven novels across more than a thousand years of one invented nation, held together by Druss, Waylander and Skilgannon. Start with Legend and read in publication order.
Eleven novelsStones of Power
The Sipstrassi, stones of Atlantis that grant almost anything at a price. Two novels rework Arthurian Britain; three follow Jon Shannow, the Jerusalem Man, across a ruined future.
Five novelsHawk Queen
Two highland novels. Sigarni, a huntswoman descended from an old king, is drawn into leading a conquered people; the second book goes through a gate to an earlier age and a new cast.
Two novelsRigante
Four novels in two pairs about a highland people. Connavar and his son Bane face the empire of Stone; centuries later, Kaelin Ring and Jaim Grymauch live under Varlish occupation.
Four novelsTroy
Gemmell's Trojan War as Bronze Age history, told through Helikaon (Aeneas), Andromache and Odysseus. The third book was completed by Stella Gemmell after his death.
Three novelsMacedon
Parmenion, a half-Spartan outcast, becomes the general behind Philip of Macedon and is drawn into the fate of the young Alexander. History with a supernatural current; the Sipstrassi appear.
Two novelsStandalone novels
Four fantasy novels outside any series. A fan timeline sets Knights of Dark Renown and Morningstar in the Drenai world's distant past, but all four can be read alone and in any order.
Four novelsOutside the fantasy
Two crime novels: White Knight, Black Swan, published in 1993 as Ross Harding, and Rhyming Rings, found among his papers and published in 2017.
Two novels