The Maze Runner (novel series)
The author James Dashner at Comicon in 2014 | |
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| Author | James Dashner |
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| Cover artist | Philip Straub, Dennis Louis |
| Country | United States, Australia, Canada, France |
| Language | English, French |
| Genre | Adventure Science fiction Dystopian Young adult fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Published | 2009-Present |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book |
| No. of books | 8 |
The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of the trilogy The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016). A novella titled Crank Palace (2020) and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013) have also been released. A sequel trilogy in the series titled The Maze Cutter takes place 73 years following the events of The Death Cure and consists of the novels The Maze Cutter (2022), The Godhead Complex (2023), and The Infinite Glade (2025).
The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections.