Gregory Mattix Books in Order
Explore Gregory Mattix’s books in order, with summaries of Extensis Vitae, Nexus adventures, and standalone novels to choose your next fantasy or sci-fi read.
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Gregory Mattix books in publication order
20 books
Extensis Vitae
by Gregory Mattix
2013
Soldier Michael Reznik awakens in an underground bunker with an unfamiliar, technologically enhanced body. The peaceful people who revived him need help rescuing a kidnapped doctor, but his new existence comes with a deadline that complicates his mission.
Obsolescence
by Gregory Mattix
2013
Corporate security officer James Mason enjoys advanced equipment until enhanced clones begin replacing his colleagues. Suspicious transfers and deaths make him question his own future, while an approaching catastrophe intensifies his struggle to protect his family.
The Shattered Land
by Gregory Mattix
2013
Michael Reznik reaches the surface with Rin as his guide, searching for a way to disable his body's kill switch. The unfamiliar wasteland contains marauders, slavers, predatory corporations, and strange creatures, while Rin pursues redemption for her own past.
City of Sarx
by Gregory Mattix
2014
Reznik travels to Skin City to rescue colonists sold into slavery, while Rin Takahashi seeks her own reckoning. The technologically advanced city offers possibilities amid the wasteland, but rival factions and bounties on their heads turn their arrival into a trap.
Empire of Dust
by Gregory Mattix
2014
After Skin City's costly liberation, the survivors prepare to confront Thorne Industries. Rin reluctantly takes a leading role, Marcus tries to save the woman he loves, and James Mason seeks to repair past wrongs in the Extensis Vitae finale.
Seren1ty
by Gregory Mattix
2015
Nick Novak lives quietly in Mexico with little memory of his past until an impossible blue door appears. A stranger’s claim that his family has searched for him forces Nick to investigate memories he fears may be dangerous.
Dawnbringer
by Gregory Mattix
2016
Nera and Malek must restore Nexus's failing Machine before the city and surrounding planes fall to destruction. Their quest takes a party into the Abyss to find the legendary Engineer, while gathering demon forces threaten the multiverse.
Doors of the Dark
by Gregory Mattix
2016
With Nexus cut off from the other planes, essential supplies dwindle and violence spreads. Fugitive Nera searches for Malek in the lifeless Gray Lands while struggling to decide whom to trust and whether she can help save the city.
The Twilight City
by Gregory Mattix
2016
Enslaved thief Nera wants freedom from the foundry of Nexus, a twilight city connecting the planes. Apprentice mage Malek arrives searching for his kidnapped teacher, and their paths intersect as competing powers threaten the city's fragile balance.
Nexus Tales
by Gregory Mattix
2017
This collection explores earlier adventures of the Nexus heroes and introduces monster hunter Dakarai Creel. Magical theft, a lost stronghold, a cursed monastery, and unexplained disappearances expand the world and reveal more about characters from the original trilogy.
Scions of Nexus
by Gregory Mattix
2018
Twenty years after the Battle of Nexus, Taren and Elyas seek lives beyond their legendary parents' shadows. War driven by the fiend Nesnys forces them into unexpected adventures as divine powers manipulate events with consequences across the multiverse.
The Way of Pain
by Gregory Mattix
2018
War spreads through Ketania while Taren searches for the Lady of Twilight's help mastering his magic. Elyas faces captivity, and their companions confront changing destinies as the conflict conceals a plan threatening their entire plane and the wider multiverse.
Remember Tomorrow
by Gregory Mattix
2019
Jason Hurd finds a time-travel device on a dead man who appears from nowhere. Hoping to repair past failures and prevent loved ones' tragedies, he changes history, only to cross paths with a killer who has haunted his town for decades.
Trial of the Thaumaturge
by Gregory Mattix
2019
Taren returns from Nexus with stronger magic to find Ketania nearing collapse and its queen captured. He and his companions must rally allies and travel to forgotten planes to stop Shaol's plans in the Scions of Nexus trilogy's conclusion.
Payback
by Gregory Mattix
2020
Mercenary Nanami survives an operation that kills her crew, then discovers her lover has also been murdered. Tracing the attacks to figures from her own past turns her search for revenge into a race to strike before they return.
Rogues and Vagabonds
by Gregory Mattix
2020
Returning Nexus characters face new challenges in this short-fiction collection. Ferret searches for a missing mentor, Dakarai confronts an immortal tyrant, and other heroes investigate disappearances, ancient threats, and the personal aftermath of the War of Ketania.
Disposable Heroes
by Gregory Mattix
2021
Alien hybrid Boomer works with mercenaries in Arutairu Megacity until a dubious assignment brings hit squads after his crew. Betrayals, an alien-armed assassin, and doubts about his own mind draw him into a conspiracy threatening the entire city.
Ephemeral Creatures
by Gregory Mattix
2021
After serving prison time for a fatal drunk-driving crash, Kevin hopes to rebuild his life. The victim’s ghost reveals troubling secrets, drawing him toward a supernatural adversary and forcing him to seek help from friends who distrust him.
Blood Aurora
by Gregory Mattix
2024
Police officer Will Clairmont returns to Alaska for his former girlfriend’s funeral and finds troubling gaps in the official account. A missing body and events isolating the town reveal an unnatural threat that demands help from a federal agent.
Nocturnal Echoes
by Gregory Mattix
2025
Reclusive artist Devin Walker uses sedatives to enter vivid nightmares that seem connected to his forgotten past. Discovering a presence watching him there turns his search for answers into a dangerous effort to save someone he loves.
Gregory Mattix sub-series and character series
Extensis Vitae books in order
Explore this seriesNexus Tales books in order
Explore this seriesNexus of the Planes books in order
Explore this seriesScions of Nexus books in order
Explore this seriesStandalone Gregory Mattix books
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