Michael Scott Walton
Fantasy and Science-fiction Author
BOOKS
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BASTION
Alistella Pareides Caliday sacrificed her home to save it.
Ten years after the devastating Solar Gulf War, former Bastion soldier Alis has built a new home on the utopic post-war, post-capitalist Earth with refugee runner and fellow survivor Toristani Arcay Orius. But that home, too, is on the verge of slipping away.
Together, they ended the war, but not without consequence: defecting from Bastion and ejecting from her Aegis mech caused Alis’ state-installed mindjack to malfunction. Now, when Earth aligns with Mars, the Wolf emerges. And where the Wolf walks, death follows.
When a mission to finally cure the Wolf ends in blood and betrayal, Alis and Toris are thrust back into a fight they thought was over. If Toris hopes to save Alis, and if she hopes to save herself, they must finally confront the consequences of the war they ended—and the ghosts that chase them—before the cycles of history turn again and snag them in its jaws.
From grappling with fifty-foot mechs above Mars to slicing through the last capitalist stronghold on Earth, Bastion is a gripping solarpunk epic about identity, resistance, and the courage it takes to build something better from what’s broken.
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WHERE THE WILD ENDS
Twelve years ago, Emerald and Maia Evers stumbled into a discovery: a secret branch of the National Park Service are monster hunters.
Now, after years of hunting that secret, Maia has gone missing, and everyone else presumes her dead.
But not Emerald.
She will bend the world and break herself to bring Maia home, and finding her sister starts with infiltrating this secret organization. But as she learns more about the monstrous wildlings and becomes a central part of the conflict to control them, her single-mindedness has a cost. And the harder Emerald fights against loss, the more loss and pain she leaves in her wake.
This contemporary fantasy standalone is Supernatural meets the modern magic of V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, or TJ Klune.
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ABOUT
Michael Scott Walton is a science fiction and fantasy author. Bastion is Michael’s debut, but he’s been writing novels since seventh grade, when he penned a 300-page fantasy in a college-ruled notebook. His professional and academic lives have also revolved around storytelling: he has a Master’s degree in English—with an emphasis in writing and rhetoric—and works full-time as director of a content marketing team.
When he’s not working, writing, or dreaming of stories while he really should focus on driving, you’ll find Michael adventuring with his family in the mountains of Utah.
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