KICKSTARTER: Starquest Needs Cover Art!
Ladies and gentlemen, time to pass the hat.
MAKING SPACE OPERA GREAT AGAIN! — More Covers Needed!
STARQUEST is the triumphant return of golden age pulp space opera into an era that has forgotten how galactic tales of treks and wars amid the stars should be told.
We appeal to all loyal readers and disappointed dreamers whose favorite franchises have been undermined or betrayed.
We need funds to cover the cost of covers! Aid the revolution in returning to our roots!
Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun? Now, new hope is here!
If you are weary of weak, wan, woke, and wasted works, your wait is ended!
Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old — here you will hear wonders told!
Grandmaster of Science Fiction, John C Wright, has taken up the challenge to write a fast-paced, gigantic tale of wonder and adventure.
WHO IS JOHN C WRIGHT?
Wright’s debut novel, THE GOLDEN AGE, was published in 2002 to wide critical acclaim, with Publishers Weekly celebrating him as “this fledgling century’s most important new SF talent.” He is also known for the Chronicles of Chaos series, which includes ORPHANS OF CHAOS, a finalist for the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
In 2015, Wright received a record-breaking six Hugo Award nominations, including four in the Best Novella category (for “One Bright Star to Guide Them,” “The Plural of Helen of Troy,” “Yes, Virginia, the is a Santa Claus” and “Pale Realms of Shade”); one for Best Short Story (“The Parliament of Beasts and Birds”); and one for Best Related Work (Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth). In 2016, his novel SOMEWHITHER won the first Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
WHAT IS STARQUEST?
Of course, there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.
Of course, there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness!
Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance!
The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again!
The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light!
An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!
Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords
An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead!
Can Darkness fail and Light prevail?
Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!
WHAT DO WE NEED?
We funds to pay our loyal and hardworking cover artists for professional grade and handsome covers art.
The first Indiegogo campaign provided four covers, but Starquest has grown in the telling and now there are going to be at least twelve books!
— More Space opera! More Starquest joy! But also more covers are now needed.
This campaign is trying to raise enough to provide a cover for Starquest Book Five
SCOURGE of the SPACEWAYS
If it funds, we add stretch goals for more covers.
Our hope is to fund four.
The total needed is eight
If we approach this point, later stretch goals will be revealed.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
