The epic new space opera series

The Starfighter Club​

She erased his memory. He fell for her anyway. Now they’re humanity’s last hope in a war that began on a college campus—and will end among the stars.

“Action-packed space opera set on present-day Earth. Secret societies, interstellar wars, sentient viruses, unrequited love—what more could you want?” —Lakis Polycarpou, author of August in the Vanishing City

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Book One

Secret War

An interstellar war kept hidden from Earth. A dangerous girl with deadly secrets. Now two college students and the mysterious Firelion Club are all that stands against an invasion no one knows is coming.

Book one of my new series The Starfighter Club, now available in ebook (readable on any device*) and gorgeous trade paperback. Get your copy today!

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Book Two

Deception’s Cure

Midterms by day. Starfighter training by night. An invasion is coming—and the enemy is closer than anyone suspects.

Book two of The Starfighter Club is now available in ebook (readable on any device*) and gorgeous trade paperback. Get your copy today!

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Upcoming Projects

Fans of The Starfighter Club will be glad to know my first priority is to continue that series! I tend to write multiple books at once as one long draft, so I’ve been calling the project “book 4+”. I have about 200,000 words so far (January 2026), which is all of book 4 and about half of 5.

Two other series are also in the works. The Storyteller Resistance is a near-future technothriller series chronicling a resistance group’s fight against the hegemony of powerful corporate AIs. Then there is The Cats of Waverley Manor, an early-YA fantasy series that can best be summed up as 101 Dalmatians meets Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, with cats.

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From the Author

I grew up on Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Buffy and Firefly. As a kid I’d see my last name (no relation, sadly!) on my Star Wars toys and feel a kind of kinship—like the stories my siblings and I played out were a part of that universe too.

My goal with The Starfighter Club was to take elements of that world and make them real, or at least as real as possible. What would it be like for modern-day, college-age protagonists to be drawn into an interstellar conflict, complete with plasma blasters and starfighter battles? How could I make that believable…

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Michael Lucas​

Science fiction & fantasy writer.​

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