The Faded Sun trilogy is a series of science fiction novels set in the Alliance-Union universe of C. J. Cherryh. The series comprises the three novels Kesrith (1978), Shon'jir (also 1978), and Kutath (1979) and were published by DAW Books. They were re-published in as an omnibus edition in the UK in 1987 and in the U.S. in 2000.