Jay Allan

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2012
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Andromeda Chronicles

1 - Andromeda Rising (Mar-2019)
2 - Wings of Pegasus (Jul-2019)

Blood on the Stars

1 - Duel in the Dark (Apr-2017)
2 - Call to Arms (Aug-2017)
3 - Ruins of Empire (Apr-2017)
4 - Echoes of Glory (Oct-2017)
5 - Cauldron of Fire (Oct-2017)
6 - Dauntless (Jan-2018)
7 - The White Fleet (Mar-2018)
8 - Black Dawn (Jul-2018)
9 - Invasion (Sep-2018)
10 - Nightfall (Nov-2018)
11 - The Grand Alliance (Jan-2019)
12 - Andromeda Rising (Mar-2019)
12 - The Colossus (Apr-2019)
13 - The Others (Jun-2019)
14 - The Last Stand (Sep-2019)
15 - Empire's Ashes (Nov-2019)
16 - Attack Plan Alpha (Jan-2020)
17 - Wings of Pegasus (Jul-2019)
17 - Descent into Darkness (Jun-2020)
18 - Empire Reborn (Oct-2022)

Crimson Worlds Successors

1 - MERCS (Mar-2015)
2 - The Prisoner of Eldaron (Aug-2015)
3 - The Black Flag (Nov-2017)

Crimson Worlds Refugees

1 - Into the Darkness (Jun-2015)
2 - Shadows of the Gods (Oct-2015)
3 - Revenge of the Ancients (Mar-2016)
4 - Winds of Vengeance (Sep-2016)
5 - Storm of Vengeance (May-2018)
6 - Crusade of Vengeance (Oct-2021)

Crimson Worlds

0.1 - Tombstone (Nov-2012)
0.2 - Bitter Glory (Jul-2013)
0.3 - The Gates of Hell (Mar-2014)
1 - Marines (Aug-2012)
2 - The Cost of Victory (Oct-2012)
3 - Little Rebellion (Jan-2013)
4 - The First Imperium (Apr-2013)
5 - The Line Must Hold (Jun-2013)
6 - To Hell's Heart (Sep-2013)
7 - The Shadow Legions (Feb-2014)
8 - Even Legends Die (May-2014)
9 - The Fall (Dec-2014)
Crimson Worlds: War Stories (Apr-2014)

Crimson Worlds Adventures

1 - Red Team Alpha (Nov-2016)

Far Stars

1 - Shadow of Empire (Nov-2015)
2 - Enemy in the Dark (Dec-2015)
3 - Funeral Games (Jan-2016)
4 - The Emperor's Fist (Aug-2019)

Far Stars Legends

1 - Blackhawk (Apr-2016)

Flames of Rebellion

1 - Flames of Rebellion (Mar-2017)
2 - Rebellion's Fury (Apr-2018)

Portal Wars

1 - Gehenna Dawn (Nov-2013)
2 - The Ten Thousand (Sep-2014)
3 - Homefront (Feb-2016)

Shattered States

1 - The Last Veteran (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • The Last Veteran

    Shattered States - 1

    A Dystopian Future Two centuries after the collapse of America, one man knows the terrible truth. Connor Eliott is driven to prevent the doom he knows is coming, but first he must do the impossible. stay alive until he can escape from the front lines...

  • Marines

    Crimson Worlds - 1

    Erik Cain joined the marines to get off death row. The deal was simple; enlist to fight in space and he would be pardoned for all his crimes. In the 23rd Century, assault troops go to war wearing AI-assisted, nuclear-powered armor, but it is still me...

  • The Cost of Victory

    Crimson Worlds - 2

    Book Two of Jay Allan's Bestselling Crimson Worlds Series (over 1,000,000 sold)...The Third Frontier War is raging, and all across human-occupied space worlds are burning. Massive fleets struggle for dominance and kilometer-long war shipsexchange the...

  • Tombstone

    Crimson Worlds - 0.1

    In the 23rd Century, the Superpowers of Earth vie for control of occupied space and the vast resources of the colony worlds. Darius Jax is a senior officer and hero of the Marine Corps, veteran of countless battles fought throughou...

  • Little Rebellion

    Crimson Worlds - 3

    Crimson Worlds Book III The Third Frontier War is over, and the Western Alliance is triumphant. All across human-occupied space, colony worlds celebrate the coming of peace. But peace is an elusive dream, and more trouble is brewing. The war was expe...

  • The Dragon's Banner

    The Light of Civilization is Fading... The empire that ruled the world is crumbling, and darkness is falling. Cities burn, armies pillage, and warlords struggle for domination. In the shadow of Rome's fall, the land of Britannia is divided and bleedi...

  • The First Imperium

    Crimson Worlds - 4

    Book 4 of the bestselling Crimson Worlds series... The Alliance and its colonies have called a truce and signed the Confederation Agreement, providing the frontier worlds with guarantees of self-government. No one expects the deal to last, and both s...

  • The Line Must Hold

    Crimson Worlds - 5

    Crimson Worlds Book 5… The robotic legions of the First Imperium burst into human space, destroying everything in their path. Directed by the maniacal Regent, the enemy pressed forward with one goal " the destruction of mankind. The Superpowers o...

  • Bitter Glory

    Crimson Worlds - 0.2

    The Second Prequel Novella in the bestselling Crimson Worlds series (over 800,000 sold)...Augustus Garret is the hero of the Alliance, the greatest naval commander in the history of space combat. He leads massive fleets in great battles, but once he...



  • To Hell's Heart

    Crimson Worlds - 6

    The combined forces of humanity have beaten back the First Imperium invasion. For the first time, the enemy has been defeated in battle. The cost was high in blood and suffering, but the Line held. The heart of human-occupied space has been saved fro...

  • Gehenna Dawn

    Portal Wars - 1

    Book one of the Portal Worlds series, by the author of the best-selling Crimson Worlds series... Jake Taylor was a New Hampshire farmboy who wanted nothing more than to marry his girlfriend, work on the farm, and maybe one day write a great novel. Bu...

  • The Shadow Legions

    Crimson Worlds - 7

    The war with the First Imperium is over, and Grand Fleet is limping home from the frontier. Erik Cain, Augustus Garret, and the rest of the high command are grimly satisfied that humanity has been saved from the First Imperium menace. There is no joy...

  • The Gates of Hell

    Crimson Worlds - 0.3

    Elias Holm is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, a hero who has fought a hundred battles all across human-occupied space. He's led massive armies in the greatest battles ever fought in space. But once he was only a captain, thrust into command whe...

  • Crimson Worlds: War Stories

    Crimson Worlds

    All three Crimson Worlds Prequel novellas, now in one discounted collection. Over 250,000 Crimson Worlds books sold. Tombstone In the 23rd Century, the Superpowers of Earth fight an unending war for control of occupied space and the vast resources of...

  • Even Legends Die

    Crimson Worlds - 8

    The final battle has begun.Gavin Stark, the former head of Alliance Intelligence and the bitter nemesis of the Marine Corps, has made his bid for power. The manufactured clone soldiers of his Shadow Legions have seized control of dozens of colony wor...

  • The Ten Thousand

    Portal Wars - 2

    Portal Worlds Book II (The exciting sequel to Gehenna Dawn) General Jake Taylor and his army of cyborg soldiers are veterans of Erastus, a planet so brutal, so hellish, it is called Gehenna by the men sent to fight and die there. He and his comrades ...

  • The Fall

    Crimson Worlds - 9

    The Epic Conclusion to the Crimson Worlds Series…

    Erik Cain is the hero of the Marine Corps, a celebrated warrior who has led his grim veterans into every war the Alliance and mankind have faced. But now he has left the Corps, driven to ne...

  • MERCS

    Crimson Worlds Successors - 1

    Earth has been a scarred ruin for three decades, its scattered people struggling to endure amid the poisoned and radioactive wreckage of the final war between its despotic Superpowers. While the people of Earth fight to survive, out on the frontier,...

  • Into the Darkness

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 1

    A brand new series by the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds saga...

    Terrence Compton is one of Earth’s greatest admirals, a warrior almost without equal. Alongside his oldest friend and brilliant colleague, Augustus Garret, he and h...



  • The Prisoner of Eldaron

    Crimson Worlds Successors - 2

    The Search for Erik Cain…The Superpowers of Earth have fought their final war, leaving Earth a devastated ruin, populated only by scattered groups of survivors living in primitive squalor. Out in space, however, humanity moves forward, and the for...

  • Shadows of the Gods

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 2

    Crimson Worlds Refugees Book II Deeper. Farther into the black unknown of space. There is no other path, no way for the lost to go, save forward. Admiral Terrance Compton’s fleet is cut off from Earth, deep in the heart of the enemy First Imperium....

  • Shadow of Empire

    Far Stars - 1

    The first installment in the Far Star series, a swashbuckling space saga that introduces the daring pirate Blackhawk and the loyal crew of the Wolf's Claw, from the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds saga! Smuggler and mercenary Arkarin Blac...

  • Enemy in the Dark

    Far Stars - 2

    The second book in the Far Star series follows Blackhawk and the crew of the Wolf’s Claw as they are gradually (and unwillingly) drawn more deeply into Marshal Lucerne’s campaign to form a united power bloc in the Far Stars to resist imperial enc...

  • Funeral Games

    Far Stars - 3

    The battle for the unification and rule of the Far Stars Confederation will be decided in this exhilarating third and final book in the swashbuckling space saga begun with Shadow of Empire and Enemy in the Dark. The Far Stars stands on the edge of...

  • Homefront

    Portal Wars - 3

    The stunning conclusion to the Portal Wars trilogy…Jake Taylor and his cyborg soldiers have fought their way from one Portal planet to another, moving steadily homeward with one thought in mind. The utter destruction of the corrupt rulers who sent...

  • Revenge of the Ancients

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 3

    The Final Struggle… A battered group of human ships, fighting for survival, fleeing deeper into the far unknown, pursued by the deadly forces of the genocidal artificial intelligence known as the Regent. A legendary commander, the man who has saved...

  • Blackhawk

    Far Stars Legends - 1

    Blackhawk. A wanderer, a man running from a dark and sinister past. A genetically-engineered warrior, a capable and accomplished killer, he is also a lost soul, a man who has fled to the deepest reaches of space seeking his true identity.The Far St...

  • Winds of Vengeance

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 4

    Earth Two. A new home for the survivors of the fleet, the men and women who battled against seemingly insurmountable odds to survive the assault of the First Imperium and to destroy the homicidal Regent, the artificial intelligence committed to their...

  • Red Team Alpha

    Crimson Worlds Adventures - 1

    A New Adventure Set in the Crimson Worlds Universe(Over 800,000 Crimson Worlds Book Sold)Red Team Alpha. An elite military unit. Twenty highly-trained veteran warriors, Mars’ best. They are ready to face whatever dangers threaten the Confederati...



  • Flames of Rebellion

    Flames of Rebellion - 1

    A group of rebels fighting for independence sows the seeds of revolution across the galaxy in this blockbuster military sci-fi adventure from Jay Allan, the author of the Crimson Worlds and Far Stars series. The planet Haven slides closer to revol...

  • Duel in the Dark

    Blood on the Stars - 1

    The Confederation has fought three wars against the forces of the totalitarian Union. Three generations of its warriors have gone off to war, held the line against the larger, more powerful enemy. Now the fourth conflict is imminent, and the Confeder...

  • Ruins of Empire

    Blood on the Stars - 3

    War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight. Captain Tyler Barron and the crew of Dauntless are ...

  • Call to Arms

    Blood on the Stars - 2

    War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation...the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is strong, their fleets larger and more powerful than intelligence reports had predicted. They have broken through the forward defenses, sent th...

  • Cauldron of Fire

    Blood on the Stars - 5

    A Deadly Fight to the Finish… The warrior culture of the Alliance has fragmented, and comrade fights comrade, brother kills brother. The Red Alliance forces, backed by the Union and its propaganda machine, have the advantage in numbers and position...

  • Echoes of Glory

    Blood on the Stars - 4

    A fight to the end... The Confederation and the Union have fought each other to a standstill. Battered, exhausted fleets eye each other warily across a border that has been a battlefield for three bloody years. Neither side has the strength to atta...

  • The Black Flag

    Crimson Worlds Successors - 3

    The Triumvirate. Three clones of Gavin Stark who survived their evil master’s destruction. Now they have cheated death again, downloading their minds into an alien intelligence, a relic of the First Imperium. For three decades they have worked, sil...

  • Dauntless

    Blood on the Stars - 6

    The pulsar…an ancient weapon of unimaginable power, one that threatens the Confederation with total destruction. The Union is preparing for the final invasion, one that cannot fail with the great artifact at the head of their fleet. The clock is ti...

  • The White Fleet

    Blood on the Stars - 7

    The war is over, but the struggle continues. Tyler Barron and his spacers have set out into the unknown, deep into the Badlands, seeking to discover the empire’s old tech and the secrets of its tortured history before Gaston Villieneuve and the res...

  • Rebellion's Fury

    Flames of Rebellion - 2

    The battle for freedom begun in Flames of Rebellion continues in this action-packed military science fiction tale from the author of the Crimson Worlds and Far Stars Confederation series. Damian Ward thought he was done fighting. But the retired v...



  • Storm of Vengeance

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 5

    Earth Two is a world beset by dangers, inside and out. It’s genetic groupings, the cloned “Tanks,” the “Natural Borns” and the hybrid “Mules” exist uneasily, each wary of the others, even as they rally to face the deadly threat of the F...

  • Black Dawn

    Blood on the Stars - 8

    War is coming, darker and more terrible than any that have come before. The Hegemony is coming to impose its brutal system of genetic supremacy on the Confederation and the other nations on the Rim, to make its elite Masters the unchallenged rulers o...

  • Invasion

    Blood on the Stars - 9

    War...like none that has come before.  

    The Hegemony has launched the invasion Tyler Barron and his Confederation comrades have feared, and all the Rim is ablaze with the fires of war and destruction.  

    The Hegemony has brought its...

  • Nightfall

    Blood on the Stars - 10

    Night is falling.  

    The unstoppable Hegemony invasion has reached the very heart of the Confederation. Battle after desperate battle has been fought, and each time, the Confeds have been pushed back, columns of battered and blasted ship re...

  • The Grand Alliance

    Blood on the Stars - 11

    Hell is unleashed

    The Hegemony controls Megara, the Confederation's capital. War has raged for five years. Millions are dead, vast fleets of ships have been destroyed. But in the stronghold where Tyler Barron and his comrades have gathered ...

  • Andromeda Rising

    Andromeda Chronicles - 1
    Blood on the Stars - 12

    An industrial hell. The foulest and most decrepit slum on Parsephon. A nest of human misery, where hope is word long forgotten, and the dead are carted away every day. It is the worst pit in the Confederation's great industrial machine known as the I...

  • The Colossus

    Blood on the Stars - 12

    The Hegemony strikes again… The Confederation and its allies have won their first victory, retaken their capital from he forces of the Hegemony. But the enemy is not beaten, far from it, and they are back, with an unstoppable weapon, a vast supe...

  • The Others

    Blood on the Stars - 13

    From the deepest darks of unknown space, evil comes… Admiral Tyler Barron and the Confederation navy face a new threat, darker and deadlier than any that have come before. The Confederation has just concluded its war with the Hegemony, but no...

  • Wings of Pegasus

    Andromeda Chronicles - 2
    Blood on the Stars - 17

    A grim, haunted expanse of space, vast light years filled with dead, empty worlds. A dark place, the graveyard of an empire…and a frontier where vast riches can be had by those with the courage - and the luck - to survive. But trade in old tech...

  • The Emperor's Fist

    Far Stars - 4

    In this thrilling new installment in the Far Stars saga, a reluctant hero with a bloody past must reunite with an old love to battle an evil emperor willing to destroy all their worlds if he cannot control them. When the Far Stars came under imper...



  • The Last Stand

    Blood on the Stars - 14

    The Invasion of the Highborn.The mysterious enemy has come, and Tyler Barron and his allies prepare for the final battle, the desperate struggle to save the Rim. Barron’s spacers are ready to fight, as always, but this time they know little of the ...

  • Empire's Ashes

    Blood on the Stars - 15

    Tyler Barron is about to lead his fleet into a trap. He is sure the enemy is laying in wait, but he has no choice. After four years of unexpected calm along the front line, the Senate and the Hegemonic Council are demanding action, and the Pact’s c...

  • Attack Plan Alpha

    Blood on the Stars - 16

    A battle is coming, the greatest the Rim has seen in 10,000 years, a fight for freedom, for the future, for the very survival of all humanity holds dear. Tyler Barron and his comrades are ready for their greatest test, but even as they prepare to hol...

  • Descent into Darkness

    Blood on the Stars - 17

    Victory or Death.Tyler Barron and his associates are divided, split between two courses of action. Barron doesn't believe in the desperate plan to eradicate the Highborn, the strange virus that has been created for that purpose, but may or may not be...

  • Crusade of Vengeance

    Crimson Worlds Refugees - 6

    Earth-2 is a world almost consumed by dangers, on the brink of civil war between the cloned “Tanks”, the “Natural Borns”, and the hybrid “Mules”. The only thing that has prevented actual fighting, a conflict that m...

  • Empire Reborn

    Blood on the Stars - 18

    The final book in the Blood on the Stars series...The human powers have been pushed to the brink, battered, and almost destroyed. The virus they have invented and deployed, their sole possibility for victory, seems to be too little, too late. Its usa...

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Jay Allan has published 55 books.

Jay Allan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Empire Reborn, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Jay Allan, Marines, was published in August 2012.

Yes. Jay Allan has 11 series.
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