Three novels out now · Two more in the works · One short-story collection · Paperback · Ebook · Audiobook

Where to start

Start with Halcyon Prime, then The Scrape.

The Magu Program came out first, but it’s the last book in the story: Book 5, the finale. Books 3 and 4 are in the works. If you’ve already read Magu, pick up Halcyon Prime next.

Base City: Short Stories stands on its own. Read it anytime.

Base City isn’t connected to the Bot Trilogy. Each series is its own world.

In reading order

  • Halcyon Prime paperback, Base City Book 1, by Matt Hartle

    Halcyon Prime

    Book 1

    When a fire reduces their farm to ashes, the Hayashi family is forced into a new life on the Moon. While Riku struggles to find his place, his younger brother Kaito is drawn to the danger, riches and seduction of the lunar underworld.

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  • The Scrape paperback, Base City Book 2, by Matt Hartle

    The Scrape

    Book 2 · Preorder

    Ashiro Taki has been back in Base City for over a year, living under the name his brother gave him. When a job goes wrong, he enlists to escape, and the Core sends its recruits into the Scrape to see who washes out.

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  • The Magu Program paperback, Base City Book 5, by Matt Hartle

    The Magu Program

    Book 5 · The finale

    Ashiro Taki can’t remember anything before a few months ago, but he knows he’s enhanced, very enhanced. Now those enhancements are failing, and the Hakko Ichiu Corporation will do whatever it takes to get back a boy named Wren.

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  • Base City: Short Stories paperback by Matt Hartle

    Base City: Short Stories

    Standalone · Read anytime

    A police chief offered a second chance, a noodle seller with a lab hidden behind his stand, and a postulant who has never left her abbey. Three stories set in Base City.

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“It’s long been fashionable to declare cyberpunk a defunct genre, but when an author of Hartle’s talents pumps this much juice into the tropes, they come alive as they did in the heady 1980s, when William Gibson’s Neuromancer debuted.”

Kirkus Reviews, on The Magu Program

Looking for something different? The Bot Trilogy is a separate series: a group of friends, a robot uprising, and the summer everything changed.

Start the Bot Trilogy