Warriors Super Edition

About the Warriors Super Edition series

Alongside the numbered Warriors arcs, HarperCollins publishes a parallel line of longer, single-cat biographies called Super Editions. Where a main-arc book follows a rotating viewpoint through six-book story cycles, each Super Edition steps outside the ongoing plot entirely to tell one named cat's whole arc in a single oversized volume -- Bluestar's rise from a loyal ThunderClan warrior to a leader worn down by grief and paranoia, Yellowfang's exile from ShadowClan and long road to becoming Firestar's mentor, Crookedstar's guilt over a childhood accident that shapes his entire leadership of RiverClan.

Because each volume is a self-contained life story rather than a slice of an ongoing plot, Super Editions work as a way into Warriors' history for readers who already know the Clans from the main arcs but want the fuller picture behind a name they've only seen from the outside -- what Bluestar was like before grief hollowed her out, or how Tigerheart earned the loyalty (and suspicion) that follows him into later arcs. They also reward long-time readers by filling in generations of backstory: kittypet origins, Clan-founding legends, and the private histories of leaders whose public deeds are all the main arcs ever had room to show.

Running since 2007 and still active alongside the current Changing Skies arc, Super Editions have become one of the steadiest side-currents in the Warriors publishing schedule, with a new volume arriving roughly once a year even as the numbered arcs move on to new casts.