Starfall City eBook Kirby Moore
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An evil corporation has abducted Frances Black’s super-criminal father and the heroes of Starfall City refuse to help. So Frances does what any hyper intelligent sixteen-year-old would do - she forms her own gang of strangely gifted misfits to rescue him instead.
But can she keep her team from imploding long enough to save her father and the city itself?
When her mother died and her distraught father returned to crime, Frances fled Starfall City and honed her skills of telepathy and telekinesis on her own. But knowing she’ll need more than superpowers to confront everything she left behind, she gathers a band of young outcasts to aid her a cybernetically enhanced, kung-fu swordswoman, a self-destructive green Martian rock star, an old best friend and former Starfall "It Girl" who mysteriously lost her powers, and a delinquent Atlantean wizard-in-training.
Together they hope to do the impossible by infiltrating the Grim Tower, Trinity Corporations’ arcane prison. If they can rescue Frances' father and escape with their lives, they'll be legends. But first they’ll have to confront ruthless crime lords, the world's greatest heroes, a sun-eating dragon and an inter-dimensional conspiracy to invade Earth.
Welcome to Starfall City. Things are about to get weird.
Starfall City eBook Kirby Moore
First of all, I really enjoyed this book. If it was a movie, I'd go see it. Second of all; yes, there are a lot of characters, but not unlike Lord of the Rings or other world-famous books.Frankly, even less than that book. To me, it feels like it will be the first of a series, and I liked that Frances was the emotional center of the book.I also liked that she gradually became the leader, against her own insecurities and I'm glad that they were unveiled in a subtle and non-obvious way. It struck a chord because many who are powerful cannot see that power and use it sparingly as a result or as a trick or a convenience. Such uses are immature and were nicely reflected in the attitude of the main character. The forming of the new group itself is the protagonist here, and the development of Clara and Frances especially was well handled.
I also think that the lack of depth of the other corporate characters is in keeping with the nature of corporations themselves. Enough was said to give them gravitas and energy in the narrative. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.
For me, you can always tell a good story by how it's wrapped up- and nearing the end of the book, it wasn't clear at all what would happen. I liked that Clara and Frances have a place to go and a cast of characters. Each character was quite well done to my mind- and each had a recognizable tone to them.
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Starfall City eBook Kirby Moore Reviews
I've paid $7.99 and $8.99 for books that weren't half as good as this one. Brilliantly imaginative, completely unique characters, and a gripping plot left me yearning for a sequel at almost any price. Further stories set in Starfall City would hopefully give the author the opportunity to develop these fascinating characters beyond what was done in this book.
Every one of the "new heroes" has an intriguing back story, sometimes just hinted at, and all of them were on the cusp of profound and interesting changes, leaving me almost desperately hungry to read more about them. I'll be spreading the word about this story. I think it has an excellent chance to develop a large cult following. This story was as exceptionally imaginative as some of the best scifi I've ever read.
It would be helpful if Mr. Moore had an Author's Page on to let readers know what he's working on.
Starfall City is the origin story of a new superhero team. As typical of team origin stories, too little time is spent with any one character to get a good feel for any one of them. Hopefully future books of this series will make up for this common issue.
Second issue, also common in team books is the head hopping. The story mostly concentrated on one point of view until the final third of the book. Until the finale, the head hopping wasn't noticeable - just an appropriate change of perspective. The last bit could have used some editing to make the transitions smoother.
Third issue, I like good worldbuilding. The origin of "superpowers" in this world is a jigsaw puzzle mish-mash. You really need a map to keep track of the city. Something visual. Visually this city would be stunning.
Final issue - visually this book would be stunning. This book is truly a comic book in prose - instead of a novel of superheroes. Visual, not emotional, descriptions are given. You can see each panel that should be inked. Confessions of a D-List Supervillain is a superhero novel - meant beginning to end to be in prose. This book reads like it should be handed over to an illustrator to finish. The characters, who seem underdeveloped emotionally in the story, will pop from the page once their faces are visible. Starfall City was not written correctly for the novel/prose medium.
Final report If you like superhero comics, this book could be interesting. If you don't, don't bother.
I read the book beginning to end in one sitting.
One day Kirby Moore - if that is his real name - threw everything at the wall and everything stuck, and thus the genesis of his mishmash superhero prose, STARFALL CITY. I had a blast reading it, but whether you do or don't depends on your knack for keeping straight the slew of nutty concepts that saturate his narrative. Nearly five decades ago onto Starfall City descended a series of four cataclysmic storms, each of which ripped open a rift to another dimension and swallowed up entire city blocks, never to be seen again. Today Starfall City is host to humans and stranger inhabitants - otherdimensional refugees such as vampires, sorcerers from Atlantis, Martians (green and white), robots, and superheroes.
It's been five years, seven months since 16-year-old telepath/telekinetic Frances Black left town. She's only back home now because she's caught news of her father's abduction. See, Frances comes from Starfall City royalty. She's the grand-daughter of the Bulleteer, Starfall's first vigilante hero who today is director of the Starfall Defense League, the city's preeminent peacekeeping organization, the police having disbanded three years after the first storm. Except that he refuses to help Frances' father, his son. Maybe it's because Frances' father happens to be Minkus Black, the notorious super-villain known as the Demon Doctor. So now we get to the core plot which begins with Frances' enlisting four disparately gifted misfits to help her break her father out of an impregnable fortress. And if they can do this improbable thing, maybe they can even end up saving the world. Because in a world where freaky mad science hobnobs with the dark arts, there's more going on than the birth of a teenaged superhero team and a kidnapped super-criminal.
So, yeah, bro, welcome to Starfall City where it's only odd if things aren't odd. Kirby Moore - author with a comic booky name - generates delirium and even sows confusion with how much he throws in your face. Actually, this is one of those books that can hugely benefit from visual cues, maybe a map to let your brain work out Starfall's many exotic locations with relation to each other. Starfall is such a crossroads of genres and colors and contrasting ideas, it really reminds me of John Ostrander's pan-dimensional city of Cynosure or Michael Moorcock's Tanelorn or Callahan's Crosstime Saloon or that terminal in Wreck-It Ralph or, most appropriately, the city of Neopolis from Alan Moore's wicked good TOP 10 comics, five points of nexus where it feels like anything can happen and everyone at some point may run into each other. I love those sorts of places.
Kirby Moore uses Frances' recruitment drive to introduce several fascinating characters, most of whom are experiencing a personal crisis. This is a group with issues, yo. A self-destructive green Martian punk rocker who happens to be a secret warrior. An Atlantean boy wizard-in-training who's backstabbed just about everyone he knows. And my two favorites a cyber-enhanced ninja swordswoman with a kickass code name bent on a one-woman mission against an underworld empire and a supremely arrogant Supergirl-type who may have lost her powers six months ago but still takes no crap from anyone. Sucks to say, but their ringleader, Frances Black, may be the least developed character of the lot.
Kirby Moore serves up quite the smorgasbord. An evil corporation. Synthetic warriors. Vigilbots. M.I.N.D.Y. the sentient operating system. The World's Greatest Superheroes. Magic academies. Interdimensional freak shows. An alien skull that serves as the almighty McGuffin. The derision of Ms. Morningstar. The awesomeone of the Ghost Fist. Wicked cool action. Vivid imagery. Good characterization. Fun. Fun. Fun. And a bit challenging to keep track of. Seriously, author man, a city map would be so helpful. And diagrams. Flow charts. A glossary. A sequel.
Other recommended superhero prose
- Marion G. Harmon's Wearing the Cape
- Peter Clines' Ex-Heroes
- Jim Bernheimer's Confessions of a D-List Supervillain
- Matthew Phillion's The Indestructibles
- Mur Lafferty's Playing for Keeps
- P.S. Power's Proxy (The Infected Book 1)
- Trey Dowell's The Protectors A Thriller
- R S J Gregory's Cosmic Girl Rising Up
- Blake M. Petit's Other People's Heroes
- C.J. Carella's Armageddon Girl (New Olympus Saga, Book 1)
- Rob Rogers' Devil's Cape
- Joshua Guess' Next (The Next Chronicle Book 1)
- Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible
- George R.R. Martin's classic Wild Card anthologies
First of all, I really enjoyed this book. If it was a movie, I'd go see it. Second of all; yes, there are a lot of characters, but not unlike Lord of the Rings or other world-famous books.Frankly, even less than that book. To me, it feels like it will be the first of a series, and I liked that Frances was the emotional center of the book.
I also liked that she gradually became the leader, against her own insecurities and I'm glad that they were unveiled in a subtle and non-obvious way. It struck a chord because many who are powerful cannot see that power and use it sparingly as a result or as a trick or a convenience. Such uses are immature and were nicely reflected in the attitude of the main character. The forming of the new group itself is the protagonist here, and the development of Clara and Frances especially was well handled.
I also think that the lack of depth of the other corporate characters is in keeping with the nature of corporations themselves. Enough was said to give them gravitas and energy in the narrative. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.
For me, you can always tell a good story by how it's wrapped up- and nearing the end of the book, it wasn't clear at all what would happen. I liked that Clara and Frances have a place to go and a cast of characters. Each character was quite well done to my mind- and each had a recognizable tone to them.
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