Era

The Frontier Golden Age

Name: The Frontier Golden Age
Start: 2240
End: 2246

2240–2246 · 6 years · 3 series · 8 books

Expansion at full pace, a cold war humming beneath it, and the slow recognition that the golden age is the crime.

The published shelf jumps a long way after this era with nothing in between. The timeline compresses that stretch rather than drawing a decades-wide blank and calling it content.

Set in this era

SeriesSpent Light SeriesThe Reach SeriesThe Working Sky

Books set in this era

BookDead Reckoning BookThe Wrong Side BookOpening the Span BookThe Wrong Number BookThe Guttering Light BookThe Burning Lanes BookThe Doorstep BookThe Dimming BookThe Yoke

Places

PlaceAureline PlaceBerth Nine, Norfolk (ISCA Atlantic complex) PlaceThe Cole house (Charleston) PlaceThe Mercer flat (Vevey) PlaceJunction 9-B PlaceRivas Corridor Placethe Causeway Placethe Lantern (the Vantor Junction Anchor) PlaceAldermoor PlaceBrightfall PlaceHighreach PlaceHouston-orbital yard PlaceLanehead PlaceMarcus Cole Academy (Frontier Command's corridor-crew school; unnamed in 2240) PlaceSaltire PlaceSennen PlaceSpindrift Placethe Far Concord

Either side

EraThe Deep Frontier EraThe Guttering Age