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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:

  1. Demon Download (1990)
  2. Krokodil Tears (1990)
  3. Comeback Tour (1991)
  4. Route 666 (1993)

They are numbered in this order:

  1. Demon Download
  2. Route 666
  3. Krokodil Tears
  4. Comeback Tour

The internal chronology of the novels is in this order:

  1. Route 666
  2. Krokodil Tears
  3. Demon Download
  4. 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

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