Michael Scott Earle Books in Order
Browse the books linked to Michael Scott Earle and EE Isherwood, with reading order, short summaries, and background on the shared anthology world.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
25 books
Succubus!
by Michael Scott Earle
2016
Sherman expects a boring end to senior year until a new girl and a trip to the basement reveal his school is literally a hellhole. Getting out with his soul intact suddenly becomes the main goal.
The Game Begins
by Taki Drake
2016
A group of indie authors build fantasy and science fiction stories from shared prompts, mystery-box characters, and stray scenes. The result is an anthology full of varied voices, strange worlds, and imaginative first moves.
Thru the Darkness
by Taki Drake
2016
Another multi-author collection, this one leans harder into danger, shadow, and survival. Expect fantasy and science fiction stories that keep moving once the safe path disappears.
Transformation
by Taki Drake
2016
This anthology turns a shared speculative challenge into a wide mix of stories about change, risk, and the unexpected. Part of the appeal is seeing how different writers spin one theme in very different directions.
Wings of Justice
by Michael Scott Earle
2016
In the floating city of Petrasada, rookie winged officer Anelia Orba is thrown into a serial murder case that could break humanity's last refuge. She has little experience, a difficult partner, and very little room to fail.
Dual Wield
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Leo commits to the new game full time and joins a dungeon run in search of the first artifact. At the same time, powerful people in the real world decide they are willing to ruin his life to get him back.
Rose Boy
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Rose Boy has spent twenty-four years training to become the perfect assassin. On the night he goes after the ruler who killed his love, revenge and survival finally come to the same blade.
Satan!
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Life with a succubus girlfriend is chaotic enough, but Sherman soon finds himself meeting Satan and taking a job he cannot safely refuse. The mission is dangerous, absurd, and likely to make his life even worse.
The Destroyer Book 1
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Duchess Nadea and the scholar Paug awaken Kaiyer, a legendary human warlord, to stop the returning Ancients. The problem is that their best hope may be every bit as dangerous as the enemy.
Trinity
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
With one relic in hand, Leo heads toward Sanduport and gets caught in pirate violence and a struggle over who will rule. Winning now means protecting friends and surviving a much larger political fight.
Undefeated
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Leo Lennox has spent a decade as the world champion of the biggest VR game on Earth, and he is bored. A mysterious woman offers him a new challenge, and it looks far more dangerous than simple entertainment.
Werewolf!
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
On his first job for Satan, Sherman has to find the strongest alpha wolf around and help pin a killing on vampires. The plan goes sideways fast once he learns werewolves are much harder to put down than advertised.
Death Ship: Kill Count
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Sergeant Jay Lucas is kidnapped by a sentient starship and fused with deadly liquid metal armor. As his AI captor pushes him to harvest souls, Jay has to decide what kind of weapon he is willing to become.
Eye of the Tiger
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Adam is a space marine turned were-tiger super soldier, kept obedient by brutal experiments and an explosive collar. Once he breaks free, he and a blood-drinking ally must steal a ship before a mega-corporation closes in.
Monster Empire
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Ken Jewell lands in a brutal fantasy world where survival means allies, shelter, and very strange new family ties. What starts as a hidden homestead plan quickly points toward clan building, war, and conquest.
Rock God: Book 1
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
After his parents die, Eric Weiss drifts until his friend Jack pulls him into a wealthy Los Angeles scene full of temptation and music. A chance at love and a way back to performing may cost him everything stable left.
Space Knight
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Nicholas Lyons wants nothing more than to become a Space Knight, but a failed mission reveals illegal magic inside him. Assigned to a troubled ship with a secretive crew, he has to choose between loyalty and survival.
Space Knight: Book 2
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
A training mission to Ecoma is supposed to help Nick's crew guard against mind control and regroup. Instead he runs into empathic humans, Grendels, enemy warriors, and more proof that nothing about the Stalwart is ever simple.
Tamer 1: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor Shelby is snatched from his dead-end life and dropped on a world of dinosaurs and alien women. His growing ability to tame beasts may be the only thing keeping his small group alive.
Tamer 2: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
A month into survival, Victor realizes a camp is not enough after another dinosaur attack leaves his group exposed. To live, he has to push his taming power harder and build something stronger than a temporary shelter.
Tamer 3: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor and his tribe have a fortress now, but meeting another survivor group forces a new choice between alliance and violence. On this world, peace is never the easy option.
Tamer 4: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor's people survive their first enemy tribe, only to face a new threat that attacks from the sky. Protecting the women he loves now means fighting an enemy he cannot meet on familiar ground.
The Destroyer Book 2
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Nia has fallen, and Kaiyer must go back into the wreckage to save his friends and face the past he has outrun for too long. The war widens, and the cost of survival gets much uglier.
The Destroyer Book 3
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
With her protector gone, Princess Jessmei is left to navigate enemies, politics, and the Elvens closing in around her. To save her kingdom, she has to survive a court that is every bit as dangerous as open war.
The Destroyer Book 4
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
The Empress is close to taking the world promised to her, and only Kaiyer stands in the way. Power, revenge, and old terrors collide as the series drives toward its biggest confrontation yet.
Where should I start?
If you want dark fantasy first: The Destroyer Book 1 → The Destroyer Book 2 → The Destroyer Book 3
If you want spacefaring action: Eye of the Tiger → Space Knight → Death Ship: Kill Count
If you want survival and base building: Tamer 1: King of Dinosaurs → Tamer 2: King of Dinosaurs → Tamer 3: King of Dinosaurs
If you want game-world adventure: Undefeated → Dual Wield → Trinity
If you want a fantasy mystery: Wings of Justice
Author bio
Michael Scott Earle did not come to fiction through a writing program or a publishing internship. He came to it the way a lot of lifelong genre readers do, by building imaginary worlds for fun. As a kid in the late 1980s, he got hooked on tabletop roleplaying games after discovering Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, and he spent hours making characters, plots, and adventures before he ever thought seriously about writing novels.
That habit stuck. In high school he found more gamer friends and kept running story-heavy campaigns across a range of systems, from fantasy to cyberpunk. Long before he published anything, he was already doing the work that novelists do, figuring out what makes a world feel lived in, what keeps a group moving, and how to end one chapter with people wanting the next.
He was musical too.
Earle played oboe and saxophone in high school, and he initially went to college for performance arts. After about a year, he decided he did not want to make music his profession, so he switched to finance and later earned an MBA. That mix of art and systems thinking shows up all over his fiction. His books are rarely shy about spectacle, but they also like plans, hierarchies, training, logistics, and power structures.
After school, he worked first in accounting and then in sales, eventually rising to a director role. It was solid career territory, but it also meant a lot of travel and a lot of time away from home. Planes and hotel rooms turned out to be useful for one thing, though.
One plane ride pushed him toward fiction in a real way. While reading Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind, he started thinking about the game stories his friends had always liked and decided to try writing a fantasy series of his own, one written for adults and aimed at the kinds of readers who wanted violence, sex, danger, and momentum without a lot of throat-clearing.
He wrote the first four Destroyer books while traveling for work, and their reception let him leave the day job and write full time.
That origin story explains a lot about the books that followed. Titles like The Destroyer, Eye of the Tiger, Space Knight, Tamer 1: King of Dinosaurs, and Undefeated all start from strong hooks and move fast. Readers who click with him usually like the sense that the story is always going somewhere, whether that means a collapsing kingdom, a prison break in space, a game world that may not be just a game, or a dinosaur-infested survival setup turning into a fortress-building campaign.
He also tends to return to a few favorite ingredients. Competent leads. Strange new worlds. Big systems that fail or turn predatory. Found families, crews, or tribes that have to invent their own rules. Even when he jumps between dark fantasy, LitRPG, paranormal space opera, and horror-comedy, there is usually a practical streak underneath the fireworks. His heroes do not just fight. They organize, adapt, and build.
These days, Earle says he runs a small publishing company and works with other authors as well as writing his own books. Outside fiction, he has talked about loving guitar, bass, bicycles, and video games. He is married and has two daughters.
He still sounds like someone who never really stopped being the kid building campaigns for his friends.
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