Tim C Taylor Books in Order
Browse Ian Whates books with Tim C Taylor in order, with short summaries, background on the collaboration, and help choosing where to begin.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Tim C Taylor books in publication order
33 books
Last Man Through The Gate
by Tim C Taylor
2011
Professor Codrin loses status, security, and any safe future, then gambles everything on passage through a one-way Gate. What waits on the other side turns this novella into a tense blend of time travel and revelation.
The Meandering Mayhem of Thogron Throatbiter
by Tim C Taylor
2011
This short story leans hard into comic-savage fantasy, following the loudly destructive adventures of Thogron Throatbiter. It is brisk, chaotic, and proudly over the top.
Welcome Home, Jannisary
by Tim C Taylor
2011
Set in the wider Human Legion universe, this early short story offers a glimpse of human lives shaped by alien rule, military service, and the long shadow of forced loyalty.
Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace
by Tim C Taylor
2012
A practical guide for authors who want to format print books in Microsoft Word for CreateSpace. Taylor covers layout, typography, file prep, and the small details that make a paperback look professional.
The City of Destruction
by Tim C Taylor
2012
The second Reality War novel pushes deeper into the time war, where distorted history and shifting perspectives make truth hard to trust. The stakes grow darker as the damage spreads across worlds and timelines.
The Slough of Despond
by Tim C Taylor
2012
The first Reality War novel throws its characters into a crooked battle over time, identity, and the shape of history itself. It is a smaller, stranger Human Legion-universe story built on alternate realities and bad choices.
Marine Cadet
by Tim C Taylor
2014
Seventeen-year-old Arun McEwan enters a brutal training system built to turn slave descendants into soldiers for alien masters. A dangerous friendship and hints of a bigger destiny make survival about more than graduation.
Human Empire
by Tim C Taylor
2015
Battered but still fighting, the Human Legion follows the trail of the Night Hummers in search of allies and advantage. Civil war, faith, and shifting loyalties complicate Arun McEwan's struggle to build something stronger from the wreckage.
Indigo Squad
by Tim C Taylor
2015
Woken from cryo to board an enemy ship, Arun McEwan is dropped into mutiny, betrayal, and murder. To stay alive, he must make allies among the people he has been taught to hate.
Renegade Legion
by Tim C Taylor
2015
Major Arun McEwan prepares the newborn Human Legion to retake his home planet, but weak loyalties and hidden secrets threaten everything. Liberation means facing alien overlords, slave camps, and choices that may poison victory.
After War: A Revenge Squad Prequel
by Tim C Taylor
2016
Before NJ McCall joined Revenge Squad, he was an isolated, broken veteran with no clear future. This prequel shows the encounter that drags him back onto the streets of Port Zahir and into trouble.
Hurt U Back
by Tim C Taylor
2016
NJ McCall's first day in Port Zahir turns into a rough introduction to frontier justice, old grudges, and the city's underworld. It is a fast entry point to Revenge Squad and its inhuman allies.
For a Few Credits More
by Tim C Taylor
2017
Sixteen shared-world stories expand the Four Horsemen universe with new guilds, species, and hidden pressures. Terry Mixon's Forbidden Science adds one more dangerous angle to the wider conflict.
Second Strike
by Tim C Taylor
2017
After NJ McCall blows up the property of Port Zahir's most powerful man, the city hits back hard. Forced toward uneasy refuge among aliens, he learns revenge is simple only at the start.
War Against the White Knights
by Tim C Taylor
2017
The Human Legion has momentum but not security, and General Arun McEwan knows victory could still collapse into disaster. His push toward the White Knights' capital brings brutal choices, hidden traps, and war on a massive scale.
Adventures in the Arcane — Cthulhu Edition
by Tim C Taylor
2018
This anthology gathers new pulp-horror tales inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos, from elder gods to occult investigations. Tim C Taylor appears alongside several other writers in a shared dive into cosmic dread.
Tales from the Lyon's Den
by Tim C Taylor
2018
This anthology uses the Lyon's Den, a legendary mercenary hangout, as the doorway to eighteen Four Horsemen stories. Terry Mixon appears here with The Heart of a Lion.
The Battle of Earth: Part 1
by Tim C Taylor
2018
The Human Legion returns to Earth and walks straight into the trap waiting in the Solar System. With Arun McEwan dying and spies everywhere, liberation begins as a gamble that could end in ruin.
The Battle of Earth: Part 2 Restart
by Tim C Taylor
2018
Arun McEwan is missing, Earth is still under alien control, and humanity is close to extermination. The final phase of the Legion's war becomes a fight for home, survival, and whatever comes after victory.
The Midnight Sun
by Tim C Taylor
2018
When war reaches Tau-Rietzke, the Midnight Sun Free Company is ordered to protect three captured Raknars at any cost. The mission tests the crew's loyalties and ties a distant mercenary job to a much larger war.
Chimera Company Rho-Torkis: Season 1
by Tim C Taylor
2019
This omnibus collects the original first season of Chimera Company, where Legion and Militia rivals are forced to cross the frozen war zone of Rho-Torkis together. Survival depends on people who would normally shoot each other on sight.
Chimera Company Season 2: Deep Cover
by Tim C Taylor
2019
The second Chimera Company omnibus follows the team as it stops running and starts pushing back against the forces tearing Far Reach Federation apart. Deep cover missions, faction politics, and old secrets drive the season.
Endless Night
by Tim C Taylor
2020
The Midnight Sun Free Company is drawn into a hidden war in the Spine Nebula when rival powers move on the Goltar's secret source of wealth. Mercenary survival becomes entangled with guild politics and a fight no one can stay neutral in.
One Minute to Midnight
by Tim C Taylor
2020
In the Four Horsemen universe, the crew of the Midnight Sun and its allies head into a climactic fight in the Spine Nebula. The stakes are apocalyptic, and even victory promises a brutal price.
The Dark Before the Light
by Tim C Taylor
2020
Hunted across the Spine Nebula, the battered alliance of the Midnight Sun, the Goltar, and the Spine Patriots has nowhere safe to retreat. The war turns desperate, personal, and close to breaking point.
Department 9
by Tim C Taylor
2021
Cut off from the rest of Chimera Company, Lily Hjon is sent to a totalitarian world where informing is survival and mercy can get you killed. Choosing between the regime and the rebellion may ignite something far bigger.
Hold the Line
by Tim C Taylor
2021
With Far Reach under pressure from invasion, corruption, and old betrayals, Chimera Company's scattered fighters are forced toward open war. The fifth book pushes the series from maneuver and intrigue into hard, costly commitment.
Operation Redeal
by Tim C Taylor
2021
Captain Fitz chases the biggest score of his life, only to learn his new marines need him to become someone he buried years ago. Deep-cover secrets and a galaxy-shaping plan drag Chimera Company into dangerous territory.
Smuggler Queen
by Tim C Taylor
2021
Captured at the court of crime boss Nyluga-Ree, Vetch Arunsen learns that escape may be exactly what his captors want. The chase that follows runs through war zones, rival loyalties, and one very dangerous assassin.
The Fall of Rho-Torkis
by Tim C Taylor
2021
Sergeant Osu Sybutu and Militia sergeant Vetch Arunsen are enemies by habit, but the ice world of Rho-Torkis gives them no room for habit. To keep their squads alive, Legion and Militia may have to fight as one.
And So Does the Future
by Tim C Taylor
2024
Stiletto and the Time Dogz jump to 2362 to fix a history that has somehow gone wrong. Saving humanity would be easier if an alien android were not trying so hard to distract him.
The Past Sucks
by Tim C Taylor
2024
Stiletto Caldwell is recruited into the Time Dogz and sent into a mess of 1930s Germany, 1848 Belgium, and historical murder. Time travel is supposed to be clean business, right up until it very clearly isn't.
Time Travel in Rock: 1984
by Tim C Taylor
2024
Demoted to the Cleaners, Stiletto heads into a Cold War time mess involving assassins, rock music, and disappearing friends. What starts as a training mission becomes a frantic attempt to save the timeline.
Where to start with Tim C Taylor
If you want the core Human Legion story: Marine Cadet → Indigo Squad → Renegade Legion
If you want the larger war and payoff: Human Empire → War Against the White Knights → The Battle of Earth: Part 1 → The Battle of Earth: Part 2 Restart
If you want shared-universe mercenary action: The Midnight Sun → Endless Night → The Dark Before the Light → One Minute to Midnight
If you want meaner, street-level sci-fi: After War: A Revenge Squad Prequel → Hurt U Back → Second Strike
If you want wild time-travel comedy: The Past Sucks → And So Does the Future → Time Travel in Rock: 1984
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Chimera Company Rho-Torkis: Season 1
by Tim C Taylor
2019Chimera Company, Book 1
Chimera Company Season 2: Deep Cover
by Tim C Taylor
2019Chimera Company, Book 2
Department 9
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 5
Hold the Line
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 7
Operation Redeal
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 4
Smuggler Queen
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 6
The Fall of Rho-Torkis
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 3
Chimera Company books in chronological order

Chimera Company Rho-Torkis: Season 1
by Tim C Taylor
2019Chimera Company, Book 1
Chimera Company Season 2: Deep Cover
by Tim C Taylor
2019Chimera Company, Book 2
The Fall of Rho-Torkis
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 3
Operation Redeal
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 4
Department 9
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 5
Smuggler Queen
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 6
Hold the Line
by Tim C Taylor
2021Chimera Company, Book 7
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Welcome Home, Jannisary
by Tim C Taylor
2011Human Legion, Book 1
Marine Cadet
by Tim C Taylor
2014Human Legion, Book 2
Human Empire
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 5
Indigo Squad
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 3
Renegade Legion
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 4
War Against the White Knights
by Tim C Taylor
2017Human Legion, Book 6
The Battle of Earth: Part 1
by Tim C Taylor
2018Human Legion, Book 7
The Battle of Earth: Part 2 Restart
by Tim C Taylor
2018Human Legion, Book 8
Human Legion (Tim C Taylor) books in chronological order

Welcome Home, Jannisary
by Tim C Taylor
2011Human Legion, Book 1
Marine Cadet
by Tim C Taylor
2014Human Legion, Book 2
Indigo Squad
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 3
Renegade Legion
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 4
Human Empire
by Tim C Taylor
2015Human Legion, Book 5
War Against the White Knights
by Tim C Taylor
2017Human Legion, Book 6
The Battle of Earth: Part 1
by Tim C Taylor
2018Human Legion, Book 7
The Battle of Earth: Part 2 Restart
by Tim C Taylor
2018Human Legion, Book 8
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Author bio
Tim C Taylor lives with his family in Bromham, an old village in England, and that mix of quiet home base and very busy imagination feels right for his books. He has said that a whole cluster of late 1970s influences hit him at the right age, including Star Wars, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, 2000AD, Traveller, and Dungeons & Dragons. If you have read his fiction, that checks out. Big ideas, scrappy survival, strange futures, and the sense that history can go sideways at any moment are there from the start.
Before writing full time, he spent about twenty years in the software industry. He coded, built systems, and later managed teams and change-heavy projects. That background matters more than it might seem. Taylor's books are full of institutions under pressure, people trying to keep complicated machines running, and leaders making hard calls inside systems that were never as stable as they looked.
Then 2011 arrived.
After being made redundant in February 2011, he decided to use the break to write seriously. By his own account, it was supposed to be time away from office politics, not the start of a permanent new career. But the shift held. He began publishing fiction and quickly found that writing was the work he actually wanted to be doing.
Some of the earlier landmarks were the two Reality War novels and the novella Last Man Through the Gate. They already show things Taylor keeps returning to, time trouble, warped systems, dangerous choices, and people trying to find some kind of moral footing while events get stranger around them. But the real turning point came with Marine Cadet in 2014. That novel introduced Arun McEwan and the Human Legion universe, and it gave Taylor the long-form military science fiction saga he had been building toward for years.
After that, the books came fast. Indigo Squad, Renegade Legion, Human Empire, War Against the White Knights, and The Battle of Earth expanded the Human Legion story from brutal training and mutiny to liberation war, alien politics, and the messy question of what freedom costs after generations of slavery. Readers who click with Taylor often like that combination of squad-level danger and much larger strategic consequence. The battles matter, but the books never forget the people trapped inside them.
He does not stay in one lane, though.
The Revenge Squad books bring the action down to the street, mixing old-soldier damage, revenge jobs, and frontier-city chaos. The Midnight Sun, Endless Night, The Dark Before the Light, and One Minute to Midnight let him play in the Four Horsemen universe, where mercenary outfits, guild politics, and larger war all overlap. Then there is Chimera Company, a far-future branch of the Human Legion universe that adds more factional intrigue and more institutional decay. More recently, the TimeDogz books show a looser side of his voice, with Stiletto Caldwell stumbling through history, romance, and time-travel disasters in a series that is knowingly messier and funnier.
A lot of this work shares the same concerns. Taylor likes underdogs, cracked empires, found teams, and the moment when survival stops being enough and somebody has to decide what they actually stand for. Even when the setting changes, from alien war to time-travel comedy to occult anthology work, that interest in pressure and consequence tends to stay put.
He has also worked on the publishing side, through imprints including Greyhart Press, The Repository of Imagination, and Human Legion Publications. He even wrote Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace, a practical guide for authors trying to get their books into print.
These days he writes science fiction for a living. He still lives in Bromham, still seems cheerfully interested in broken futures and impossible logistics, and still writes the kind of stories where history, loyalty, and survival are always about to collide.
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