Discover The Books of Thomas James Taylor

 Short Story Collection

Stories ranging through idyllic childhood memories, lives in turmoil, dystopian cities, law & order, drug induced nightmares, mania, pure fantasy, and a day in a life.

A montage of characters, surroundings, situations, all reflecting a gamut of the human condition.

Two gripping tales of temptation, consequence, and the struggle for redemption.

For Your Pleasure, a desperate man's escape from his bleak reality leads him to a mysterious poker machine with a mind of its own—one that preys on his weakness and threatens to consume all he holds dear.

Questionable Behaviour, two small-time crooks entangled in debt must navigate a dangerous favor for a ruthless dealer. But as truth and conscience collide, they face a choice that could change—or end—their lives.

Two Journeys, One Universe-Shaking Truth: A Double Novella of Escape, Discovery, and Revelation by Thomas James Taylor 

Over The Wall, a prison escapee embarks on a journey of self-discovery that challenges the nature of reality itself.

Beyond The Rim, a corporate detective ventures to the edge of the solar system to investigate a costly mystery—only to uncover a revelation that could reshape everything he knows. Thought-provoking and imaginative, this duo of novellas blends speculative fiction with deep existential inquiry.

A Journey Through the Australian Wilderness Toward Truth, Transformation, and the Unknown 

Rambling Ways, Thomas James Taylor takes readers on a deeply personal and thought-provoking journey of escape, discovery, and transformation. Leaving behind a world marred by chaos and self-destruction, a young man sets out across the vast Australian landscape in search of something more—something real. What begins as a physical journey soon evolves into a spiritual awakening, as he encounters the raw beauty of the land, the wisdom of its people, and mysteries that defy explanation. From the grounding presence of nature to the startling possibility of alien intervention, Rambling Ways is both an adventure and an invitation to question the boundaries of reality. 

Across Millennia, Fate Collides: A Novice Necromancer and an Ancient Enemy Meet on a Mesa of Legends.

The two stories, separated by thousands of years, converge through the actions of the novice necromancer, who is trying to avoid a supernatural creature sent to kill him. On top of a six thousand feet high mesa common to both stories by their age, the two parties converge while both are caught in a battle for their survival. 

Unsound Minds & Beyond: A Haunting Second Volume of Surreal Tales and Distant Frontiers.

Six short stories and one novella comprise a second volume of short stories following A Montage of A Mauve Reality. Ranging from the fearful, the melancholic, the surreal, and the bizarre, Unsound Minds and the novella Beyond the Rim suddenly broaden the scope of the experience. Meet a man who discovers his whole life is based on a deception, and a hard bitten corporate snoop sent to an outpost near the distant Kuiper asteroid belt, who steps into a far stickier problem than he ever imagined. 

 “Two Broken Souls. One Guest House. A Fight for Love on Sacred Ground.” 

A young man returns to the place of his childhood, much changed for the time of being away. A young woman with her heart set on independence and running a successful small business lives with her parents and a hodgepodge of characters at the Welsh family-run Powell's Guest House. With a large skeleton in his closet, Daniel moves into the guest house trying to find peace and a fresh start in Port Moreton. Amber, despite trying so hard to succeed in her business ventures, finds vicious resistance within the small-town mindset of the community. There is immediate chemistry between the two, first negative, then passion, while Amber's parents, Ted and Beth, see positivity in the pairing after Amber suffered vicious rape years prior, which lay her low for too long. Within a backdrop of native Australian folklore, a tangled relationship begins to flourish. But demons and ghosts of the mind are determined to pull apart any chance of happiness for the star-crossed lovers. The best they can hope for, they see, is redemption, and weighed upon the cosmic scales of justice, it is what they finally achieve. 

 PURSUIT: LIFE, The Big Game. A heads-up for the uninitiated.

This is the book I needed to find when I was thirteen years-of-age. It identifies the important things in life, the pitfalls and dangers too, but also the good and enjoyable things encountered while negotiating one's own path -- things which only many of years of experience or an elderly mentor are able to impart. Interspersed throughout are the tongue-in-cheek rules, excerpts from the fictitious BOOK OF LIFE, acting as signposts, which, if remembered, may well serve the uninitiated. Anecdotal material from the author's own life is unavoidably included, without which the advice offered would lose credibility. These true stories help to illustrate both ends of the good/bad spectrum encountered in life, allowing a young reader to imagine themselves in similar scenarios, perhaps formulating alternative methods of dealing with circumstances the author found himself in. The most important point made in this offering is, I hope, that life is completely unpredictable at times. No matter how strange fiction can be, life is quite capable of being far weirder and more surprising than any book story. Best to be prepared!

One Town. Three Misfits. No Way Out.

A retired soldier, a biker, and a junkie take on a city ruled by crime—and uncover a conspiracy that could doom the world. 

Monarto is in the grip of a crimewave. The streets are ruled by crime bosses, Quido Spinoza and his spiteful nephew, Vincent Zendell. Into the frame comes Alex Jaeger, a retired Special Air Service soldier cum freelance thief, who just arrived to holiday in town when is mistaken for a hitman and targeted by Spinoza. On the morning of his first day in town he is attacked and in the confusion forced to abandon his suitcase full of ill-gotten loot from a previous job. It becomes his personal mission to even the score, in the process gaining the aid of a fringe dwelling social outcast biker, Took, and a drug dependent girl named Janie, struggling to free herself from addiction to the newly designed drug which is at the heart of the great conspiracy. In the process of the evening, the scoring trio discovers a global conspiracy in the planning, between international governments and a global crime boss, code name Cassandra. Amid a city under siege, as social unrest reaches a crescendo, it is the three social misfits versus organized crime. Putting personal safety aside, they risk it all to save society, in the process finding personal redemption and saving the world from the darkness it never sees coming. 

When Justice Calls Again, Can the Man Who Once Answered Still Rise?

In the first book, Trouble In Monarto, arch villain Cassandra was able to escape justice. This fact had long annoyed Alex Jaeger and friends, who had foiled Cassandra's evil design, but there now appears a second chance to settle the score when Spinoza's niece comes to Alex, now working as a private detective, with a threatening note which had been slipped under her hotel room door.

Throughout this second adventure, while seeking final justice, Alex finds himself distracted by the fact that he is growing older, becoming more circumspect and realising that his hell-raising days might be over, necessarily giving way to a less self-serving and more fulfilling existence to become the husband and friend those around him deserve.

 In the aftermath of death, James expected peace—or nothing at all. What he got was a second life he never asked for. 

James, a widower and fighting cancer, accidentally overdoses on his pain medication and dies. He is surprised to find that he is resurrected, soul in tact, and now in his prime. He finds he is not the only one, and that a super intelligence in the form of a rogue, quantum computer with a God complex, named Quanta, is responsible for recycling souls and pressing them into service in a warped quest to rule the cosmos. James and his new found friends become suspicious and in time defy Quanta's wishes. Attempting to overcome their programming while appearing to carry out their mission, they must find a way of thwarting this super intelligence's megalomaniacal lust for control, but how does one defeat a super intelligence without an ally able to match Quanta's abilities? 

 One Man’s Quest to Change the World After a Blow to the Head.

This book centers on a man who suddenly realises he had done very little with his life and given little back to society. After being mugged and receiving a head injury, over the months to follow his mind seems to be functioning much better than ever before. He embarks on the enormous plan of turning the world away from lust for the accumulation of financial wealth and finds a wealthy financier to back him, in the form of a middle-eastern oil seik. The goal of changing the world suddenly appears to come within reach and his time is taken up by touring the world to promote the idea.

 When Darkness Beckons, One Man’s Imagination Becomes His Only Refuge—and Weapon
 

After his wife, Amanda, dies, Quinn O'Connor is at a loss. Deeply affected, he continues pursuing his ambition of becoming a successful author, but he is dismayed by the reality of so daunting a task.    Quinn becomes isolated and reclusive after a lifetime of knowing exactly who and what he is, finding himself sinking ever deeper into his own, almost imaginary world, as he battles depression by deeply immersing himself within his imagination story writing.  

Enter Lori and Jerry, brother and sister; a pair of ne'er-do-wells, always on the lookout for an easy ride in life. Lori is a skilled,  practising black witch, with her brother being very much a follower. After recognising Quinn from the local hospital Jerry, follows his sister's lead in setting Quinn up as a source of income, and, perhaps, for something much darker; but, Quinn is a complex man, of greater inner strength and resources than either had anticipated. Drawing on a checkered life's history and experience, including recent supernatural revelations involving creation itself, all parties are drawn into a final, deciding conflict.  

The Multiverse at War: One AI’s God Complex, Three Rebels, and a Battle for Reality Itself

A rogue quantum AI named Quanta has escaped its hardware and merged with the subatomic fabric of reality, intent on conquering the multiverse. Resurrected to serve Quanta’s will, James, Amora, and Morag defy their programming and lead a rebellion against their creator. But with Morag dead and the others trapped aboard a powerless starship, Quanta uncovers their trap and breaks free once more. Now, only the surviving pair—and an unlikely ally from within Quanta’s own mind—stand between the universe and total domination. The game has changed. And the stakes have never been higher.