Everything you need to cover, review, or feature The Draconari Saga.
Alessandro Giusti writes speculative fiction at the intersection of myth, science, and hidden history.
The Draconari Saga began as a dream when he was nine years old. Over the following decades it returned, growing more complex and more insistent, until at fifty-six he finally put it on paper.
Born in Brazil, he lives in Ireland. The Draconari Saga is his debut series — a five-book epic that asks what happens when an ancient warrior civilisation lives quietly among us, and what it costs to be the last one who remembers who they are. All five books exist in both English and Brazilian Portuguese. The World Companion expands the universe for readers who want the complete picture.
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An ancient warrior species arrived on Earth when their planet was destroyed. They integrated into human civilisation across generations — they married humans, had children, and most of them forgot what they were. Caelus Ignar, last full-blood male and heir to a throne he never wanted, spent his childhood as a test subject in a military research facility. When he finally negotiated his way out, he wanted one thing: to be left alone. The army agreed, mostly.
The Draconari Saga follows Caelus across five volumes — from facility to city streets, from a borrowed bedroom in a police detective's apartment to a city square where eight thousand people lie on the ground and one man is standing. His daughter Lyra, half-blood and half-awakened, becomes the bridge between two worlds. And when the Morthkai arrive — not summoned by anything humanity did, simply because Earth was on their survey schedule — what they find here is not what they expected.
The series asks its questions through action and character rather than exposition: what does it cost to be the only one who remembers? What is a family when it's not the one you were born into? What does a warrior species owe to the ordinary people who became their home? The answer is contained in five books, a World Companion, and an ocean at the end.
He was the only one standing. Eight thousand people, and he was the only one.
When the alien soldiers turned their weapons toward him, he did not step back. He did not raise his hands. He looked at them the way a man looks at something he has been waiting for his entire life and never wanted to arrive.
"I am Caelus Ignar," he said. "Son of the Emperor. Prince of a people you did not know existed."
He paused. Somewhere in the crowd, a child was crying. The sound carried.
"We came to this world when ours was destroyed. We were received with love. These people became our family." He looked at the nearest soldier. "I will not permit you to enslave them."
— From Morthkai: The Reckoning (Book IV)
The World Companion is a standalone special edition — not a novel, but a complete reference guide to the Draconari universe. It covers species biology, character dossiers, the history before Earth, and the science behind the world. It is positioned as a companion for readers who have completed the five-book series. Review copies available on request alongside novel ARCs.
Adriaan Tchaikovsky — Non-human perspectives, civilisational scale, biological evolution as narrative engine.
Pierce Brown — Hidden identity, suppressed power, a protagonist who hides what he is until he can't anymore.
Orson Scott Card — A child made into a weapon, the weight of being exceptional in a world that doesn't understand you.
Lev Grossman — Mythology as reality, the costs of power, the gap between what a story promises and what it actually is.
Octavia Butler — Being the outsider in the world you live in, belonging earned rather than inherited.
John Scalzi — Military sci-fi with a human core, interspecies conflict that's not about aliens as metaphor but as literal threat.
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