Drew Karpyshyn

Location: Our galaxy, at a time set far in our future ... Every 50,000 years, a race of machines returns to harvest the galaxy's organic life forms. In the first Mass Effect game, it is the year 2183, and the machines are about to return once again. Mass Effect: Ascension is a bridging novel set between the first and second...

The first of two official tie-in novels to Mass Effect, the award-winning videogame. Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars, the newest interstellar species struggling to carve out...

Mass Effect: Retribution follows soon after the events of Mass Effect: Ascension. The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human paramilitary organisation Cerberus, is attempting to learn more about the Reapers, an advanced race of sentient machines that periodically purges the galaxy of all organic civilisations. Having obtained Reaper technology, the Illusive Man decides to implant a human with it to...

The future of the dark side hangs in the balance in the stunning conclusion to the Darth Bane series. Twenty years have passed since the Sith and their endless rivalries were eradicated and replaced with the Rule of Two. Darth Bane now reigns alongside his young acolyte, Zannah, who must study and train in the dark side of the Force...

In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the second in the Darth Bane trilogy, the fearsome Sith lord takes on a deadly new apprentice. Darth Bane's twisted genius made him a natural leader among the Sith—until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order and create it anew from the ashes. As the last...

Star Wars: Darth Bane - Path of Destruction is the first novel in an essential trilogy chronicling the rise of the fearsome Sith lord, Darth Bane. "A solid space adventure that charts the evolution of an antihero almost as chilling as Darth Vader." - Publishers Weekly On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the...