Larry Correia

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-29

Larry Correia is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, born in 1977, who grew up in a family of dairy farmers in El Nido, California. His first novel, Monster Hunter International, was self-published and reached the Entertainment Weekly bestseller list in 2008, after which Baen Books offered him a contract and reissued it. The Monster Hunter International series about professional hunters of supernatural creatures became a New York Times bestseller, and he followed it with the Grimnoir Chronicles, an alternate-history fantasy set in a magical 1930s, and the Dead Six military thrillers written with Mike Kupari. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2011. In 2015 he began the epic fantasy Saga of the Forgotten Warrior with Son of the Black Sword, which won an inaugural Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2016; the series ran to six books.

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Books

• Son of the Black Sword (2015) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon
• House of Assassins (2019) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon
• Destroyer of Worlds (2020) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon
• Tower of Silence (2023) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon
• Graveyard of Demons (2024) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon
• Heart of the Mountain (2025) · Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 6 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (2 won)

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