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The Human Legion
Series · 8 books · 2011-2018

Books in series

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#1

Marine Cadet

2014

This a previously-published edition of ASIN B00R1UUQLK. 2565 A.D. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery, the price of protection from the regional superpower. One group of slaves was bio-engineered and augmented to fight for alien officers as the Human Marine Corps. To most alien eyes the Corps is a joke: plasma fodder equipped with third-rate cast-offs and so stupid that they go off to die actually believing they are genuine warriors. But there are others who look deeper and see potential. To them the human Marines could be the wellspring of something far greater… FREEDOM! Seventeen-year old Arun McEwan is eager to start his new life as a Marine Cadet. Just three more years of drills, combat exercises and brainwashing and he could qualify as a Marine. The alternative is death. When Arun forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe, he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years when every day brings a new deadly threat? But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny—a vision of a better future that only he can forge. A dream called the Human Legion.
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#1.5

Welcome Home, Jannisary

2011

A gripping short story that forms part of the 'Further Conflicts' anthology. Enslaved human soldiers must overcome their alien masters or remain slaves forever. A Human Legion story.
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#2

Indigo Squad

2015

This a previously published edition of ASIN B00RQNVYYK 2566 A.D. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery, the price of protection from the regional superpower. One group of slaves was bio-engineered and augmented to fight for alien officers as the Human Marine Corps. To most alien eyes the Corps is a joke: plasma fodder equipped with third-rate cast-offs and so stupid that they go off to die actually believing they are genuine warriors. But there are others who look deeper and see potential. To them the human Marines could be the wellspring of something far greater… FREEDOM! Unlike the other Marines on board the troop ship Beowulf, when eighteen-year old Arun McEwan is woken from cryo to board an enemy ship, he already knows he will survive: his destiny to lead the Human Legion has been foretold. But there are other factions who will stop at nothing to bring about their rival dreams for humanity’s future. Isolated on a ship rocked by mutiny, betrayal, and murder, Arun must find new allies amongst the most detested of the Navy crew: the freaks…
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#3

Renegade Legion

2015

This is a previously published edition of ASIN B00XRMZMZQ. Join the Legion! With over 40,000 copies sold so far, the Legion still needs YOU to join the fight for freedom. Enlist today, starting your career with any of the first three books! 2568 A.D. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery, the price of protection from the regional superpower. One group of slaves was bio-engineered and augmented to fight for alien officers as the Human Marine Corps. To most alien eyes the Corps is a joke: plasma fodder equipped with third-rate cast-offs and so stupid that they go off to die actually believing they are genuine warriors. But there are others who look deeper and see potential. To them the human Marines could be the wellspring of something far greater… FREEDOM! As Major Arun McEwan readies the newly formed Human Legion to retake his home planet of Tranquility, loyalties are wafer thin and morale low. Even his closest friends harbor poisonous secrets. And he needs everyone beside him, because the Legion must strike boldly and win allies rapidly if it is to defeat the overwhelming numbers of an enemy led by Arun’s old nemesis. What the Legion discovers on Tranquility will scar Arun’s heart, and change the meaning of the word ‘human’ forever. JOIN THE LEGION NOW! You can join the fight for freedom directly with Renegade Legion, the third book in the international bestselling Human Legion series, without needing to read the preceding books. For maximum reading pleasure, though, start with Book1: Marine Cadet or Book2: Indigo Squad.
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#4

Human Empire

2015

This is a previously published edition of ASIN B016DFON4O. You’re human. Weak. Despised. There is only one way to earn respect: to fight and win… a Human Empire. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery. This is their descendants’ story of the fight for humanity everywhere. 2569 A.D. Battered but not beaten, the Human Legion follows the trail set for them by the mysterious Night Hummers in their quest for allies and assets. But first the Legion has changed and must ask itself anew: What is the Legion for? Who shall be its leader? In the fourth of the bestselling six-book series, journey to distant planets, experience holy war, hatred, and distorted love as the Human Legion attempts to carve out its own empire amidst the chaos of civil war. You will not journey alone: alien eyes are watching… Join the Legion! With over 90,000 copies sold so far, the Legion still needs YOU to join the fight for freedom. Enlist today!
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#5

War Against the White Knights

2016

Previously published edition of ASIN B01DEGTVWE. War has raged across the stars for decades. The Human Legion is in the ascendancy now, but its victories are hollow, impossible to defend against attack from all sides. Is there any way for General Arun McEwan to secure the freedom of the liberated worlds? Or will he have to compromise with humanity's masters, the White Knights, who insist that his children must submit to the cruellest of all alien rituals: the Cull? Arun prepares to gamble an all-or-nothing strike on the imperial capital. But nothing is as it first appears when you wage war against the White Knights…
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#6

The Battle of Earth Part1

Endgame

2018

Earth’s alien occupiers look down upon humanity because they know they have won. Join the resistance and prove them wrong. 2739 A.D. Six centuries ago, a million children were given up as slaves to Earth’s new alien overlords. Now their descendants have fought their way back home and found Earth in the grip of a savage new alien occupation. This is the Human Legion’s final battle: the Battle of Earth. It doesn’t matter if this is your first Legion novel. Start here, because if the Earth is to be liberated, and the statues of the alien Supreme Commander Tawfiq are to be topple to the ground, it is here that the Legion most needs your support. In ‘Endgame’, the first of the two-part conclusion to the story of the Human Legion, the Legion walks into the trap they know awaits them in the heavily fortified Solar System. But in the augmented mind of General Arun McEwan, they have the finest strategist in the galaxy. Can he devise a counter-trap to snare the alien defenders? But with McEwan dying and the Legion riddled with Tawfiq’s spies, the Legion’s campaign seems doomed to end in disaster.
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#7

The Battle of Earth Part2 Restart

2018

Arun McEwan is lost, and the Legion’s hopes with him. Humanity teeters on the brink of extermination. 2739 A.D. Six centuries ago, a million children were given up as slaves to Earth’s new alien overlords. Now their descendants have fought their way back home and found Earth in the grip of a savage new alien occupation. This is the Human Legion’s final battle: the Battle of Earth. Allies, enemies, or both? The opening phases of the Battle of Earth have revealed hidden factions in the powerplay swirling around the Solar System. In ‘Restart’, the finale of the two-part conclusion to the Human Legion series, some dare to dream of a liberated Earth and ask the question: what next? But for the missing General Arun McEwan, the only objective that matters is to get back into the fight to unseat Tawfiq, the alien supreme commander. And with Tawfiq marshalling new forces to unleash a 10,000 year war upon the entire galaxy, victory is slipping from the Legion’s grasp. The Legion’s campaign of liberation ends here… one way or another. Bear witness to its conclusion in The Battle of Earth Part 2: Restart.

Author

Tim C. Taylor
Tim C. Taylor
Author · 17 books

JOIN THE LEGION! The Human Legion has sold over 200,000 copies, but is still recruiting for new readers. Visit humanlegion.com today and join the Legion for exclusive book downloads to start your journey into the worlds of the Human Legion, The Four Horsemen Universe, Revenge Squad and Sleeping Legion. Or you can sign up directly here. Tim C. Taylor lives with his family in an ancient village in England. When he was an impressionable boy, between 1977 and 1978, he encountered several mind-altering substances: 2000AD, Star Wars, Blake's 7, and Dungeons & Dragons. Consequently, he now writes science fiction novels for a living.

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