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Science Fiction
Big machines.
Human stakes.
War-torn worlds. Unlikely allies. People who refuse to leave their friends behind. Discover Scott Moon’s science fiction, starting with the mech crews of Tall Boys.
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Featured series
Tall Boys
They call them Mechanized Combat Rigs. The crews call them Tall Boys. In a galaxy of alien threats, government secrets, and unpredictable AIs, the people inside these machines have one another’s backs.
Read the six novels in order.
Start the main series with Boots Down, then follow the crew through Island Metal.
Tall Boys • Book 1
Boots Down
A missing soldier sends a platoon of mech pilots into a burning city—and into a conspiracy far bigger than their rescue mission.
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Tall Boys • Book 2
Crossing Power
A scientist stands between civilization and invasion. Jam and his new crew must survive a lethal kill team to keep that scientist alive.
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Tall Boys • Book 3
Short Time
Two ancient AIs collide. Jam and his loyal rig face a desperate gamble with three civilizations at stake.
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Tall Boys • Book 4
Lost Colony
Retirement takes Jam to an icebound colony, where buried alien technology draws mercenaries, salvagers, and dangerous secrets.
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Tall Boys • Book 5
Down Below
The search for a legendary homeworld leads Jam and his friends deep into danger. The riches are real. So are the risks.
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Tall Boys • Book 6
Island Metal
An island reward becomes another battlefield when prehistoric beasts and wayward star travelers put the crew’s retirement on hold.
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More from the Tall Boys universe
Three shorter adventures.
Explore the companion novellas alongside the main series. These are separate stories, not additional numbered novels.
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Coming October 25, 2026 • New series
Galactic Son
Survive one hundred missions. Earn your freedom. Go home.
Taken from Earth as a child, Mark Nova fights for alien masters on worlds he barely understands. Eleven missions down. Eighty-nine to go.
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Alien invasion • Complete four-book series
They Came for Blood
Earth is home. Giving up isn’t an option.
David Osage and his family never expected to face an alien invasion. Now survival means fighting for their home—and deciding who they can trust when the battle for Earth draws them into something far bigger.
Begin with Invasion Day and follow the story through all four books in order.
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A far-future return-to-Earth saga
Blue Sun Armada
A lost homeworld. A fleet with everything to lose.
After victory in war brings betrayal at home, Duke Uron Marlboro and his family face a desperate choice: stay and be destroyed, or lead an expedition in search of humanity’s distant homeworld.
Mech battles, fleet engagements, and deadly politics fuel this four-book journey back to Earth. Start with Blue Sun Armada, then read Crisis, Mission, and Contact.
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Military science fiction • Completed trilogy
The Chronicles of Kin Roland
Hunted by humanity. Pursued by its enemies.
Betrayed by Earth Fleet, legendary trooper Kin Roland finds refuge among the castaways of Crashdown, a lost planet at the mouth of an unstable wormhole. But when war follows him there, hiding is no longer an option.
Start with Enemy of Man, then follow Kin through Son of Orlan and Weapons of Earth.
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A companion story—or the whole adventure.
Explore Sergeant Orlan separately, or choose the omnibus containing all three novels and the bonus story.
Companion short story
Sergeant Orlan
A Chronicles of Kin Roland story, separate from the three numbered novels.
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Three novels + one bonus story
The Complete Omnibus
Includes Enemy of Man, Son of Orlan, Weapons of Earth, and Sergeant Orlan.
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SMC Marauders
A family torn apart. A war that won’t let go.
Kevin Connelly joins the military hoping to honor his grandfather and rescue his captured siblings. His family’s struggle collides with the mission of Gunnery Sergeant Robert Priest and the 343rd Marauders, drawing them into alien conflicts where allies can be as dangerous as enemies.
Follow the trilogy from Bayonet Dawn through Burning Sun to The Forever Siren—a story of family, camaraderie, and war across the stars.
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Explore the collaborations
Scott Moon & JN Chaney
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Military science fiction
The Last Reaper
A cyborg’s fight for freedom begins with a mission into a deadly prison.
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Space exploration
Homeworld Lost
A stranded pilot. A living starship. A galaxy between him and home.
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Alien gates & distant wars
Orphan Wars
An archaeologist’s discovery on the Moon changes his life—and his humanity.
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Science fiction adventure
Star Blade
A sentient sword draws an ordinary man into a battle for humanity’s future.
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Crime among the stars
Galactic Shield
A frontier law officer faces murder, corruption, and a looming interstellar war.
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A new frontier
Starship Settler
Settling an alien world takes more than courage. John Carver is about to find out.
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Scott Moon & Craig Martelle
Space western • Complete first season
Darklanding
Originally published as twelve short novels in 2018, this fan-favorite space western is now collected in one omnibus. Over 1,300 pages of frontier adventure await.
Meet Sheriff Thaddeus Fry and the miners, aliens, and outlaws who make his new posting anything but quiet.
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Scott Moon & Richard Fox
Military science fiction • The Ember War universe
Terran Strike Marines
Five collaborations within Richard Fox’s larger Ember War Saga. Follow our Strike Marines adventures through Books 11, 14, 17, 18, and 20.
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