The Demon Download Cycle is a four novel series set in the universe of Dark Future.
Series[]
- Demon Download by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1990); republished by Black Flame (2005)
- Krokodil Tears by Jack Yeovil, published by Games Workshop (1990); published by Boxtree Books (1991); republished by Black Flame (2006)
- Comeback Tour by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1991); republished by Black Flame (2007)
- Route 666 by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1993); republished by Black Flame (2006) (an expansion of the short story Route 666 published in the anthology Route 666)
- Violent Tendency by Eugene Byrne, intended as a sequel to Demon Download, was lost when the writer's Amstrad PCW died and thus never published.
- United States Calvary scheduled to be written by Jack Yeovil, and intended to conclude the series, was promised in the back of Comeback Tour but never produced.
Publication History[]
The novels were originally published in the early 1990s in support of Games Workshop's game Dark Future. They were later re-published by Games Workshop's Black Flame imprint. though the game was not republished.
Order[]
The narrative of the four published books has a chronology that is not consistent with either the publication order or the numbering that appears on the books themselves.
The books were published in this order:
- Demon Download (1990)
- Krokodil Tears (1990)
- Comeback Tour (1991)
- Route 666 (1993)
They are numbered in this order:
- Demon Download
- Route 666
- Krokodil Tears
- Comeback Tour
The internal chronology of the novels is in this order:
- Route 666
- Krokodil Tears
- Demon Download
- Comeback Tour
Each novel contains a self-contained narrative, but books later in the internal chronology do reference earlier events, and some characters make multiple appearances