DarkStar Books
DarkStar Books
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DarkStar Books is a new publisher of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction. We publish mostly quality trade paperbacks, partially illustrated and printed on acid-free archival paper.
Our first slate of titles include the late Robert Asprin's NO Quarter (see previous post for information), The St. Charles House (a mystery novel by Stephen Banister), Petrogypsies (a revised edition of the critically-acclaimed science fiction novel by Rory Harper), and Morticai's Luck (the first in the swashbuckling fantasy Duanor series by Darlene Bolesny). The blurbs for Petrogypsies and Morticai's Luck follow:
List Price: $15.95
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9819866-1-6
DarkStar Books-Fall 2009
cover painting by Hugo Award winning artist Brad Foster
Henry Lee MacFarland is a big ugly man, a farmer who is so strong that he has to be gentle, whether he's dealing with livestock or with normal people.
Sprocket is a hundred and twelve feet of healthy young male Driller, dark as a moonless night, with a spiked tongue that can bore four miles into the earth in his relentless quest for the thing he loves best--Texas heavy crude oil.
Doc, Razer, Big Mac, and the others in Sprocket's crew are the roughest, rowdiest bunch in the oilpatch. They live inside of Sprocket's body and travel like gypsies from one drilling job to another. They work like animals. Party like 'em, too.
Then there's Star, the stunning Casing gypsy who has a hankering for fine cigars, a killer instinct at poker, and a taste for big, ugly, strong men.
Looking for adventure, Henry Lee leaves the farm behind and signs on with Sprocket's crew.
He gets a helluva lot more "adventure"--as in monsters, mayhem, and murder--than he bargained for.
"Rory Harper's sensibility is warm, earthy, whimsical, cleverly off-center, and, when he wants it to be, bawdy as all get out ... Petrogypsies is a blue-collar, red-neck world where folks sweat and love and work and get hurt ... Petrogypsies has got to be one of the most auspicious debuts of the year." -- Locus Magazine
List Price: $15.95
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9819866-2-3
DarkStar Books-Fall 2009
cover painting by Veronica V. Jones
Welcome to the haunted, twin-mooned world of Duanor. Meet Morticai--reckless rogue, man of many names, ladies' man, skilled gambler and believer in gods-given luck, expert bladesman, adept thief ... and respected lawman.
The Droken, the bloodthirsty devotees of a sadistic, outlawed god, murdered Morticai's parents, leaving him to survive alone as an unwanted corryn orphan on the meanest streets of Watchaven, a human city. Once a professional thief, he escaped the criminal underworld by joining the Northmarch, the kingdom's elite paramilitary peacekeeping force. But even while honoring his peace officer's oaths, he holds even stronger to his childhood vow to find and punish those who murdered his parents, and to oppose the works of Droka wherever he finds them.
Using his second-story skills from his past life, he discovers a nest of Droken that has infiltrated his own city and is commanded by powerful, nearly untouchable members of the nobility. His unofficial actions against them nearly cost him his life and his commission, but Morticai refuses to give up. Stubbornly following the lead, and aided by his loyal Northmarcher squad mates and a Knight of the Faith, he finds evidence of a shadowy conspiracy designed to embroil Watchaven and the corryn kingdom of Dynolva in a disastrous trade war that threatens to overwhelm not only Watchaven and Dynolva but all of the kingdoms, human and corryn, of Duanor.
It's not the first time that Morticai has found himself in over his head ... but it may be the last.
Our first slate of titles include the late Robert Asprin's NO Quarter (see previous post for information), The St. Charles House (a mystery novel by Stephen Banister), Petrogypsies (a revised edition of the critically-acclaimed science fiction novel by Rory Harper), and Morticai's Luck (the first in the swashbuckling fantasy Duanor series by Darlene Bolesny). The blurbs for Petrogypsies and Morticai's Luck follow:
Petrogypsies
the first novel in the "Sprocket" Series, set
in an alternate world of organic, semi-sentient oilfield drilling rigs
by Rory Harper
the first novel in the "Sprocket" Series, set
in an alternate world of organic, semi-sentient oilfield drilling rigs
by Rory Harper
List Price: $15.95
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9819866-1-6
DarkStar Books-Fall 2009
cover painting by Hugo Award winning artist Brad Foster
For Sprocket and Henry Lee,
it was love at first blow-out ...
it was love at first blow-out ...
Henry Lee MacFarland is a big ugly man, a farmer who is so strong that he has to be gentle, whether he's dealing with livestock or with normal people.
Sprocket is a hundred and twelve feet of healthy young male Driller, dark as a moonless night, with a spiked tongue that can bore four miles into the earth in his relentless quest for the thing he loves best--Texas heavy crude oil.
Doc, Razer, Big Mac, and the others in Sprocket's crew are the roughest, rowdiest bunch in the oilpatch. They live inside of Sprocket's body and travel like gypsies from one drilling job to another. They work like animals. Party like 'em, too.
Then there's Star, the stunning Casing gypsy who has a hankering for fine cigars, a killer instinct at poker, and a taste for big, ugly, strong men.
Looking for adventure, Henry Lee leaves the farm behind and signs on with Sprocket's crew.
He gets a helluva lot more "adventure"--as in monsters, mayhem, and murder--than he bargained for.
"Rory Harper's sensibility is warm, earthy, whimsical, cleverly off-center, and, when he wants it to be, bawdy as all get out ... Petrogypsies is a blue-collar, red-neck world where folks sweat and love and work and get hurt ... Petrogypsies has got to be one of the most auspicious debuts of the year." -- Locus Magazine
Morticai's Luck
the first novel in the Duanor Series, a swashbuckling fantasy adventure
by Darlene Bolesny
the first novel in the Duanor Series, a swashbuckling fantasy adventure
by Darlene Bolesny
List Price: $15.95
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9819866-2-3
DarkStar Books-Fall 2009
cover painting by Veronica V. Jones
Knives in the Night ...
Welcome to the haunted, twin-mooned world of Duanor. Meet Morticai--reckless rogue, man of many names, ladies' man, skilled gambler and believer in gods-given luck, expert bladesman, adept thief ... and respected lawman.
The Droken, the bloodthirsty devotees of a sadistic, outlawed god, murdered Morticai's parents, leaving him to survive alone as an unwanted corryn orphan on the meanest streets of Watchaven, a human city. Once a professional thief, he escaped the criminal underworld by joining the Northmarch, the kingdom's elite paramilitary peacekeeping force. But even while honoring his peace officer's oaths, he holds even stronger to his childhood vow to find and punish those who murdered his parents, and to oppose the works of Droka wherever he finds them.
Using his second-story skills from his past life, he discovers a nest of Droken that has infiltrated his own city and is commanded by powerful, nearly untouchable members of the nobility. His unofficial actions against them nearly cost him his life and his commission, but Morticai refuses to give up. Stubbornly following the lead, and aided by his loyal Northmarcher squad mates and a Knight of the Faith, he finds evidence of a shadowy conspiracy designed to embroil Watchaven and the corryn kingdom of Dynolva in a disastrous trade war that threatens to overwhelm not only Watchaven and Dynolva but all of the kingdoms, human and corryn, of Duanor.
It's not the first time that Morticai has found himself in over his head ... but it may be the last.
