Reading order

Phule's Company reading order

Robert Asprin

  1. Phule's Company1990
  2. Phule's Paradise1992
  3. A Phule and His Money1999
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52 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
1990–1999
Published
about 14 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Phule's Company
Start withPhule's Company1990 · Volume 1 of 3

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Publication order

3 volumes1990–1999Completed

  • Robert Asprin’s comic military science fiction about Willard Phule, a hugely rich young officer of the Space Legion who, after an embarrassing incident, is handed command of its worst company of misfits and decides to fix it with money, imagination and respect.
  • Phule’s Company, the one with enough ratings, shows him turning losers into a unit with hotel-grade food and custom uniforms.
  • Light, warm and full of puns, in the spirit of his Myth series.
  • The later books were written with Peter J. Heck.
  • Read in order.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 773 pages, about 14 hours. At 45 min a day that is 19 days.

Stages

This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 17, 2026.

  1. The end of the series
    November 17, 2026

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

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Frequently asked questions

Which Phule's Company book is the longest?

“A Phule and His Money” is the longest at 289 pages; the shortest is “Phule's Company” with 232 pages.