There are 3 books in the Coyote series. The newest book is Coyote Frontier which came out in 2005.

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Coyote

Book cover of Coyote
Coyote marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth’s first interstellar colonists—and the mysterious planet that becomes their home…
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Coyote Rising

By Allen Steele , Allen Steele ,

Book cover of Coyote Rising

COYOTE RISING is the dramatic sequel to COYOTE, the story of Earth's first extra-solar colonists.

The starship Alabama, bound for the new world of Coyote, was hijacked by it's crew in a desperate bid for freedom from the repression of a post-US world order on earth. They then had to…

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Coyote Frontier

By Allen Steele , Allen Steele ,

Book cover of Coyote Frontier

Two decades have passed since the revolution that won Coyote's independence from Earth. The colony may be free, but its aging computers, aircraft, and medical equipment are badly in need of replacement. The colony's survival is now in question, and help from Earth is imminent. But there are those who…