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Tall Boys Books in Order

by Scott MoonScience Fiction & Fantasy

3 books so far (book 4 is due October 27, 2026). They run from Boots Down (2025) to Short Time (2025). Rated 4.4 across 104 listener reviews.

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Reading order

  1. Boots Down

    Book 1 2025 4.3 (66)

    One mechanized combat rig falls. Others respond. When a platoon of tall boys learns their sergeant's brother is MIA, they go into a city wracked with centuries of war to find him.

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  2. Crossing Power

    Book 2 2025 4.4 (17)

    One secret, one scientist, and one chance to do the right thing. The toughest, most damaged mechanized combat rig crew in the war has to be broken up. That's nonnegotiable, apparently.

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  3. Short Time

    Book 3 2025 4.9 (21)

    Stargates and dropships are the worst way to meet new people. Or are they? When two ancient and overpowered AIs clash, Jam and his platoon are forced to make hard decisions and battle against impossible odds.

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  4. Lost Colony

    Book 4 Out October 27, 2026

    Making planetfall without getting shot at was tight. It was the main reason mechanized combat rig operators retired. When Admiral Boal Markson IV gives Jam a secret mission to protect his daughter on Coaster, he knows retirement will be…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Tall Boys is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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