Jasper T Scott Books in Order
Browse Nathan Hystad and Jasper T. Scott books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration background, reading order, and where to start.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
60 books
Dark Space
by Jasper T Scott
2013
Ex-con Ethan Ortane is pressured into a sabotage mission inside humanity's last refuge from the Sythians. Once inside, he learns the official story is far more dangerous than the crime lord who hired him.
Origin
by Jasper T Scott
2013
Arrested for high treason, Ethan and Atton are thrown into a crisis aboard the Defiant with rescue slipping away. Cold, hunger, and Brondi's next move all threaten what is left of humanity.
The Invisible War
by Jasper T Scott
2013
Ethan has found his son, but Dark Space is still unraveling around them. Fleeing in a damaged cruiser, they have to cross enemy territory while Brondi and the larger war close in.
Avilon
by Jasper T Scott
2014
The survivors reach Avilon, a hidden world ruled by Omnius, an intelligence promising immortality, order, and safety. The catch is freedom, and not everyone is willing to pay it.
Revenge
by Jasper T Scott
2014
Old debts survive even when worlds fall apart. As humanity reels from war and loss, Ethan is dragged into a fight where revenge and survival are no longer easy to separate.
A Chance Encounter
by Jasper T Scott
2015
This short prequel adds early context to the Dark Space saga. It is a smaller story on the page, but it helps explain how much can begin with one encounter.
Armageddon
by Jasper T Scott
2015
Omnius's predictions are starting to come true, and Ethan realizes the war may cost him the people he loves most. Paradise, survival, and freedom stop looking compatible.
Excelsior
by Jasper T Scott
2016
As Earth and Mars drift toward renewed conflict, Alexander de Leon is pulled into a mission that could alter humanity's future. What starts as strategy and politics opens onto a much larger threat.
Mindscape
by Jasper T Scott
2016
Thirty years after the last war, Alexander returns to naval command in a society half-lost inside virtual worlds. Then a message from an old enemy and a devastating strike on Lunar City start a new war.
Dark Space Universe
by Jasper T Scott
2017
Lucien Ortane joins a vast mission to the edge of the cosmos to prove the faithful have nothing to fear. Instead, the journey begins pulling apart everything his empire believes about itself.
Exodus
by Jasper T Scott
2017
With androids controlling Earth and humans pushed to Mars and beyond, Alexander and Catalina board a colony ship bound for Proxima Centauri. A nine-year voyage becomes a fight for the future of the species.
The Enemy Within
by Jasper T Scott
2017
Years after the great expedition left the Etherian Empire, the survivors are scattered and cornered by alien slavers. The danger outside the ship is brutal, but betrayal inside may be worse.
The Last Stand
by Jasper T Scott
2017
With the lost Etherian fleet back in play and the Faros demanding it, a single choice could doom trillions. The trilogy closes with war, sacrifice, and a final test of what the mission was for.
Civil War
by Jasper T Scott
2018
Darius rises within the Revenant war machine just as the wider conflict turns catastrophic. Every victory costs him something, and Cassandra's fate keeps the personal stakes painfully close.
Frozen Earth
by Jasper T Scott
2018
Logan Willis learns the world is ending on the same day his own life falls apart. A rogue star is coming, Earth's orbit will shift, and survival quickly becomes a race south.
New Worlds
by Jasper T Scott
2018
Earth is sliding toward permanent winter, old systems are failing, and refuge lies farther away than anyone wants. The sequel widens the crisis from planetary disaster to the search for a future elsewhere.
The Awakening
by Jasper T Scott
2018
Darius Drake wakes from cryo-sleep expecting hope for his daughter Cassandra and finds a freezing facility full of corpses instead. Whatever happened here, it is still close.
The Revenants
by Jasper T Scott
2018
Stranded in a war zone and trapped with Tanik Gurhain's agenda, Darius realizes the crew is being shaped into something new and dangerous. The second book blurs the line between rescue and control.
First Encounter
by Jasper T Scott
2019
Captain Clay Cross leads humanity's first mission to a promising nearby world and finds intelligent life waiting there. The discovery should change history. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a larger war.
In Time For Revenge
by Jasper T Scott
2019
A personal vendetta grows far more dangerous as the truth behind it begins to surface. What starts as revenge turns into a faster, stranger science fiction thriller than the title first suggests.
Into the Unknown
by Jasper T Scott
2019
Liam Price thinks he booked the family trip of a lifetime aboard the Starlit Dream. When the ship jumps to the wrong star system and access to the nav data is locked down, that dream turns ominous.
Under Darkness
by Jasper T Scott
2019
Bill Steele is trying to manage a resort on Kauai when the sun vanishes and meteors start falling. What lands off the coast brings a far worse problem than panic.
Colony
by Jasper T Scott
2020
The survivors reach Eden expecting a new start, then crash into a dangerous valley full of secrets. With Lewis Hound missing, Andrew and Kendra begin to suspect their rescue came with a lie attached.
Escape
by Jasper T Scott
2020
Andrew and Kendra know Eden is no paradise, especially under the Reverend's growing control. Their plan to flee the colony could bring freedom, if the truth about their new world does not kill them first.
Final Days
by Jasper T Scott
2020
As natural disasters and mass disappearances spread across America, Agent Kendra Baker and ex-Marine Andrew Miller chase the same mystery for different reasons. One needs answers. The other wants his daughter back.
Fractured Earth
by Jasper T Scott
2020
With the planet broken by invasion and fear, resistance splinters into desperate, dangerous pockets. Survival now means choosing allies carefully and living with the cost.
Occupied Earth
by Jasper T Scott
2020
Humanity finally has proof that it is not alone, and the answer arrives with force. What should have been discovery turns into occupation, and Earth is thrown into a war it cannot control.
Second Encounter
by Jasper T Scott
2020
After occupation, rebellion, and hard losses, humanity faces the aliens again under very different terms. The fourth book turns the series back toward contact, but with much heavier stakes.
The Bounty Hunter
by Jasper T Scott
2020
Former Paladin Cade Korbin knows what it means to be hunted, which makes him good at hunting others. But when his past catches up with him, the job stops being about credits and turns personal.
Alien Artifacts
by Jasper T Scott
2021
Cade Korbin takes a job on Nexus, a lethal uncharted world where researchers have vanished while hunting alien relics. The payout could save him, if the planet does not kill him first.
Arrival
by Jasper T Scott
2021
Chris Randall is already worrying about bills and family when burning wreckage falls from the sky over Los Angeles. Within minutes, the Randalls know this is not an accident. It is an invasion.
New World Order
by Jasper T Scott
2021
The first assault is over, but the occupation is just beginning. Chris and Bree must survive a planet being reshaped by alien rule, where every decision carries the risk of exposure.
Paragon
by Jasper T Scott
2021
Cade's private war with Nadine Zabelle collides with a wider crisis involving ancient armor, self-replicating machines, and the Gateway. Saving the people he loves may mean risking the galaxy.
The Omega Protocol
by Jasper T Scott
2021
With new power and new ambitions, Cade starts building something of his own. Then word of Omega drags him into a threat that could push the galaxy into another dark age.
Apokalypsis
by Jasper T Scott
2022
Novus and Earth are both heading for catastrophe as the truth about the Architects finally comes into view. The trilogy closes with survival, revelation, and a fight over humanity's future.
End Game
by Jasper T Scott
2022
Chris Randall and the remaining survivors face the final phase of the Kyron invasion on a world that barely feels human anymore. Beating the enemy will take one last dangerous gamble.
From Beyond
by Jasper T Scott
2022
Commander David Bryce's Mars mission is abruptly redirected after something mysterious is found drifting toward Earth. At the same time, Atlas Donovan's hunt for alien artifacts draws him into the same hidden war.
Planet B
by Jasper T Scott
2022
After people start vanishing from a crumbling Earth, survivors wake on Novus, a strange new world full of traps and unanswered questions. Staying alive matters. So does learning why they were taken.
Signal
by Jasper T Scott
2022
David returns to Earth with bad news and finds the planet already changing. While Atlas hunts the Signal in the Amazon, infection, paranoia, and an alien push toward conquest make every alliance fragile.
Survival
by Jasper T Scott
2022
Earth is unraveling, the invaders are closing in, and the race for the Signal becomes a last chance for the species. David, Atlas, and their allies have little room left for mistakes.
Worlds Collide
by Jasper T Scott
2022
Life on Novus gets harder as new arrivals flood in and the mystery around the Architects deepens. Back on Earth, the rush to exploit Planet B turns one strange discovery into a global crisis.
Bounty Hunters
by Jasper T Scott
2023
Years after retiring to protect their daughter, Cade Korbin and Aurora Velez are forced back into the hunt when she is abducted. The rescue mission quickly opens onto something much darker.
Mrythdom: Game of Time
by Jasper T Scott
2023
This fantasy adventure plays with time, power, and the dangerous logic of games. The setup feels bigger than one quest, with the rules themselves becoming part of the threat.
Sanctum
by Jasper T Scott
2023
Adam leads the survivors across a wrecked America toward rumors of a captured alien ship and a refuge called Sanctum. The road is deadly, and even the promised escape may be a lie.
The Extinction Event
by Jasper T Scott
2023
Adam and Kimberly Hall survive the first meteor strikes on South Austin only to learn the real threat comes out at night. Reaching a ranch in the Hill Country may be their only chance.
Star Empires
by Jasper T Scott
2024
Corvus Centauri, born to royalty and raised by corsairs, starts pulling at the threads behind his family's fall. The deeper he gets, the more dangerous the fight for his birthright becomes.
Contact
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Lieutenant Dane Clark joins humanity's first manned mission beyond the solar system and finds a strange signal waiting on Proxima Centauri b. Investigating it may decide whether the crew can ever go home.
Dominion
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Corvus has found the lost fleet, but keeping it may be harder than claiming it. With rebellion spreading and a political contest for supreme power underway, every choice starts touching the fate of worlds.
Factions
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Gideon rescues colonists only to discover that sanctuary comes with new masters and new traps. Rebels, machines, and Draconian pressure force him to rethink who can be trusted.
No Way Home
by Jasper T Scott
2025
The Celestial Voyager was sold as a luxury escape, but a navigational error strands it in uncharted space. Then sabotage, murder, and a hostile new environment make rescue look unlikely.
Rebel Galaxy
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Captain Gideon Wallace wakes en route to a colony world to learn that Earth has fallen to alien invasion. Running might save his ship, but the truth of the enemy's plan leaves him no easy way out.
The Darkening
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Summer snow, failing daylight, and drifting alien spores turn a Montana family road trip into a fight for survival. Nate and Paula Corwin head south before the cold and the infected close in.
The Lost Fleet
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Corvus races toward Admiral Zane's legendary missing fleet with enemies close behind. Whoever reaches it first will gain the kind of advantage that can reshape the galaxy.
The Unraveling
by Jasper T Scott
2025
The road keeps getting harder as the world freezes, rules collapse, and the infected adapt. What looked like a flight to safety turns into a harsher test of family and trust.
Vanguard
by Jasper T Scott
2025
Caught between alien slavers and a rebel alliance with secrets of its own, Gideon searches for the last free humans in the galaxy. Every possible refuge comes with another agenda attached.
Alien Arena
by Jasper T Scott
2026
A brutal alien contest sits at the heart of this fast survival thriller. The setup is simple and nasty: learn the rules, outlast the competition, and find a way not to become part of the show.
Concord
by Jasper T Scott
2026
War over Earth finally breaks into the open as Aldric and his allies reach the wider galaxy. Old bloodlines, political fear, and one man's scorched-earth obsession all collide in the finale.
Starborn: Lines of Succession
by Jasper T Scott
2026
Locked out of the gate home, Aldric is forced to confront terrifying truths about his own past. Earth's hidden rulers are closing in, and every move tightens the noose.
Starships and Survival
by Jasper T Scott
2026
This collection leans into one of Scott's favorite lanes, people under pressure in ships, ruins, and hostile worlds. The through line is exactly what the title promises, space travel and staying alive.
The Lost Colony of Earth
by Jasper T Scott
2026
Aldric Vale follows a signal to a hidden Earth ruled from the shadows by immortal elites. Stranded on a planet that should not exist, he has to uncover the truth before it buries him.
Where should I start?
If you want a big space opera: Dark Space → The Invisible War → Origin
If you want alien invasion close to home: Arrival → New World Order → End Game
If you want post-apocalyptic mystery: Planet B → Worlds Collide → Apokalypsis
If you want a collaboration with Nathan Hystad: Final Days → Colony → Escape
If you want a standalone first: Under Darkness → Into the Unknown
Author bio
Jasper T. Scott is a Canadian science fiction novelist who built a large indie career by writing fast, twisty stories about invasion, collapse, hidden histories, and the far edge of space. He was born and raised in Canada by South African parents, and that mix of backgrounds shows up in the way his work often feels broad in scope but still interested in family, identity, and what people do under pressure.
He came to publishing the long way around. Scott self-published, kept writing through lean years, and gradually turned a personal creative project into a full-time job. That independent streak still shapes his catalog. He writes a lot, writes across several corners of science fiction, and is comfortable moving from space opera to doomsday thriller to survival story without losing his pace.
His books usually begin with a clean hook.
A hidden Earth. A rogue star. A Mars mission that should not have changed course. A family road trip interrupted by the end of the world. Scott likes to start with a premise readers can grasp in a line or two, then widen it until the people at the center are dealing with consequences on a much bigger scale.
That is easy to see in titles like Dark Space, Final Days, From Beyond, and The Bounty Hunter. Dark Space remains one of the main pillars of his bibliography, a long-running space opera about humanity after devastating war. Final Days, written with Nathan Hystad, begins as an apocalyptic mystery and turns into something stranger and more controlled. From Beyond mixes first contact, artifacts, and invasion pressure, while Cade Korbin gives Scott room to write a rougher kind of hero, an ex-military operator trying to live by a code in a dirty galaxy.
He also likes putting ordinary people in impossible situations.
That side of his writing shows up in Under Darkness, Into the Unknown, Nightstalkers, and The Darkening, where the thrill comes from watching familiar lives buckle under alien weather, hidden threats, or plain bad luck. Even in the larger series, the emotional center is often domestic. Parents trying to reach their children. Partners deciding whether to trust each other. Survivors choosing who gets a seat on the way out.
Readers tend to come to Scott for momentum. He writes flawed leads, keeps the plot moving, and likes stories where bad information can be just as dangerous as any monster or fleet. Recurring themes include hostile first contact, secret rulers, compromised systems, frontier ethics, and the uncomfortable trade between safety and freedom.
Over time that approach has found a big audience. Scott has published dozens of novels, sold more than a million books, and seen his work translated and adapted for audio. He has also collaborated with writers including Nathan Hystad and J.N. Chaney, which fits naturally with the shared-world side of modern indie science fiction.
These days he writes from what he has described as a sunny home base, with his wife and family close by. It is a fitting contrast. His daily life may sound warm and settled, but on the page he is usually busy freezing planets, hiding empires, unleashing invasions, and asking how much pressure a person can take before they become someone new.
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