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About the Starfighter Club

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?

I enjoy series like Tyler Aston’s Earth Warden and J.N. Chaney’s Backyard Starship that bring space opera to modern-day Earth. But I wanted to dig deeper into real life—the pressure of university classes and dating and friendships colliding with alien conspiracies and starfighter training.

I looked to modern urban fantasy for guidance: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Dresden Files and others. While writing, it helped to think of the books as “Buffy meets Star Wars”—or even better “Buffy with aliens and spaceships in place of vampires and magic.”

The Starfighter Club is what I got. I hope you like it.

About Me

Michael Lucas writes science fiction and fantasy stories that explore the intersection of everyday life with the extraordinary. The Starfighter Club is his debut trilogy. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife, three children, and dog Cocoa. Most days you’ll find him out on a long walk or run, daydreaming about his next story.

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