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The Hero’s Journey: Stargun Messenger by Darby Harn

May 15, 2023 by Justin Gross Leave a Comment

Welcome to the official tour schedule for the Escapist Book Co. book tour of Stargun Messenger by Darby Harn. Below, you’ll find all of the information about the book and author, links to purchase a copy of your own, as well as our list of hosts for the tour. We will be updating this page with links to each stop along the tour, so be sure to check back throughout the week!

Book Information:

Stargun Messenger by Darby Harn
Series: Stargun Messenger
Genre: Space Opera
Intended Age Group: Adult
Pages: 368
Published: December 6, 2022
Publisher: Fair Play Books (Self Published)

Blurb:

To save the stars, Astra Idari must outrun her own shadow.

Astra Idari is a mess.

She drinks too much, remembers too little, and barely pays for it all as a Stargun Messenger. She hunts down thieves who steal filamentium, the fuel that allows for faster-than-light travel. When Idari meets Gen Emera, she meets the girl of her dreams and the last living star. There’s just one problem.

Filamentium is only found in the blood of living stars.

Everyone wields knives and justifications for butchering the living stars to get around, but once Idari knows the truth, she faces a stark choice. Either she turns Emera over to her employers who control the filamentium monopoly, or risks everything to help Emera fulfill her quest to save her people.

The choice should be simple, but it’s not losing her life that terrifies Idari. It’s finally living. Idari knows she’s human despite outwardly appearing to be an android with a failing memory stitched together by her ship’s irascible AI, CR-UX. She’s been just getting by for longer than she remembers, assured in her humanity, but not enough to risk it.

Idari has lived her entire life in darkness. The dark comforts and shields. The dark preserves in its cold, and Idari may not be able to keep her star out of her shadow.

“If James Joyce had grown up reading X-Men comics and obsessively playing Destiny, he would have written this. A breathtakingly imaginative, star-spanning romp that is equal parts swashbuckling galactic adventure and lyrical introspection about love and identity.” 

– Wayne Santos, author of The Chimera Code


See Also:

I Forgor • I Want to Break Free • Rebel Rebel

Book Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWWV1NTK 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75434518-stargun-messenger

About the Author

Darby Harn is the author of the SPSFC quarterfinalist Ever The Hero, which Publisher’s Weekly called “an entertaining debut that uses superpowers as a metaphor to delve into class politics in an alternate America.” His short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, and other venues. Visit www.darbyharn.com for more.

Website: http://www.darbyharn.com 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/DarbyHarn 

FB: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063755514517 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/darbywritesbooks/ 

Newsletter: https://darbyharn.com/subscribe/ 


Tour Schedule

Thank you to all of our hosts for participating in the tour! You can find their content linked below.

May 15
Escapist Book Co.
& JamReads
May 19
FanFiAddict (@LordTBR_FFA)
& Behind the Pages
May 16
Sound & Fury Book Reviews
& Pages and Procrastination
May 20
A Maze of Words
& @jlreadstoperpetuity
May 17
FanFiAddict (@NeilTheBookGuy)
& Bunny’s Reviews
May 21
Fiction Fans Podcast Blog
& FanFiAddict (@FrasierArmitage)
May 18
Escapist Book Co. (@AJCalvin)
& @brittni_in_ink

Filed Under: Book Tour, Currently on Tour Tagged With: Darby Harn, Fair Play Books, Self Published, Stargun Messenger

About Justin Gross

Justin is a lover of all things SFF and has been an avid reader since he was three. He is attempting to build the world’s largest private library (not really, but ask his wife and she might agree). Justin is always excited to gush over his favorite reads, which more often than not are also his latest reads. He likes trend toward sweeping epics, with complex characters and even more complex plots. Until recently he was totally against romance, but certain books have shown him that it can be done well. He currently has a love/hate relationship with grimdark.

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