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The book you love, completely reimagined and perfected.

Over the years, I have given considerable thought to a makeover for “The Starlight Prophecy,” primarily because I felt the Stargirls needed the recognition of the Marque given their central role in the arc of the story. So, I renamed the novel STARGIRLS, with The Starlight Prophecy as the subtitle and launched STARGIRLS as a Fifteenth Anniversary Revised Edition.

I felt the Stargirl Brand would have more appeal and would please my loyal fans. I also created a new book cover and back cover that captured the spirit and reality of STARGIRLS. The original has gone out of print to make room for the definitive, updated edition.

I believe STARGIRLS is an epic science fantasy story and a hero’s journey that will inspire men and women to be the best versions of themselves. For women, you will always be:

STARGIRLS FOREVER

Unus pro-omnibus, omnes pro uno.

One for all, all for one.

We are the Stargirls forever!

“Awakening, they felt weird and wonderful powers stir within them, powers that no longer alarmed them. What they felt was beyond words when they experienced an epiphany, realizing they were the genetic offspring of the Star people. Created from love to protect the Star people and Earth from evil. In that glorious moment, the Stargirls understood their Starlight destiny as Intergalactic Angels and Guardians of Earth.”

STARGIRLS

An ancient alien prophecy. Five extraordinary women become something superhuman. One diabolical cosmic tyrant determined to enslave them for their Star power.

By the decree of the Starlight Prophecy, five intrepid women are destined to become Star Warrior Mystics. This cosmic calling forces them to experience what it feels like to evolve into something more than human—an alien, superhuman state that both enthralls and terrifies them. Driven by passionate intellect, fiery natures, and adventurous hearts, this band of sisters must boldly accept their shocking destiny to defeat a cosmic terror.

Called to embark on a perilous journey to save a dying alien civilization, their path collides with the maniacal obsession of Lord God Aagaatar. The tyrannical warlord seeks to enslave the Stargirls and harvest their emerging Star power to execute his ultimate Final Solution: the genocide of the Star people and obliteration of Earth.

To cement his reign as the absolute King of Terror across the Vaangeez Galaxy, Aagaatar will stop at nothing to trap and torture the Stargirls into complete submission to his will. Can the Stargirls master their frightening new powers in time to rescue a dying world and save themselves and Earth from destruction, or will they become the ultimate weapons of a megalomaniac’s galactic conquest?

STARGIRLS features a sweeping space adventure narrative and massive world-building that tackles profound existential and philosophical themes with high stakes for the Stargirls. The consequences of Stargirl’s actions against their nemesis, Lord God Aagaatar, directly impact their survival and that of Earth and the Star people.

The story weaves together complex subplots and diverse perspectives that add depth and authenticity to Stargirl’s superhuman evolution and to the characters’ fighting a galactic war. Beyond mind-bending technological gadgets, it explores female empowerment, humanity-alternating themes like transhumanism, the nature of consciousness, and the origins and destiny of the human race.

The central internal conflict of the “Stargirls” revolves around their sudden thrust into an ancient alien prophecy. They face a psychological crossroads: they must choose whether to bravely embrace an enigmatic, higher destiny or turn away in absolute terror from the reality-shattering changes happening to them.

Linden Morningstar wrote STARGIRLS to honor and celebrate the births of his five granddaughters and to immortalize them as superheroes. On a deeper level, to explore the mysteries of existence and the universe, and the possibilities about life that our human intelligence has pondered since ancient antiquity. Who are we? Where did we come from? Are we alone?

TRAVELING FASTER than the speed of light, the gigantic saucer magnetically pulsed into a different dimension. The Stargirls beamed through hyperspace, unaware that someone called Aagaatar, The Great Evil, ruled the better part of the Vanngeez galaxy, while a horrifying fiend named Garlig was in command of the Zaagon saucer imprisoning them. Garlig was the Aagaa Zaagon’s Master Torturer—a monster’s monster.

The Stargirl’s earthly innocence was no match for their vile powers that conspired to control their lives and destiny. Aagaatar was the evil incarnate that conjured unthinkable horrors to dominate the universe and destroy all that was good and loving.

The Aagaa Zaagon Empire was a murderous civilization that interbred with elite members of conquered enemies to strengthen its racial supremacy. The Aagaa Zaagon race, named for its evil god Aagaa, was an unholy word uttered in the throes of sex, the heat of battle, or in curses. The Aagaa were a paranoid race feared and hated for their perverse genius and legendary cruelty. Their way of life is founded on depravity and lust for killing. Random murder was condoned, and slaughtering the enemy was given the highest reward. Homicide and mass murder were as necessary to the Aagaa Zaagon as the air they breathed. The Aagaa Death ethos is believed to be superior for domination of the universe. Black holes were the embodiment of Aagaa Zaagon’s philosophy of Thanatos and symbolized the destructive forces Aagaa Zaagon used to annihilate civilizations and planets.

The Aagaa Zaagon invention of Zano warfare marked a new epoch in their conquest of the Vaangeez galaxy. Advanced civilizations of the Vaangeez galaxy had fought and fled their bloodthirsty invasion to survive.

The Star people had led the last Star rebellion, the Aagaa Zaagon Empire’s greatest enemy—but now encircled, they faced extermination. Abysmally, the military union between the Star people, Etuu, Zataba, Noling, Brazons and Trions had collapsed, crushed by Garlig’s War of Terror. Regardless, the Star people chose to fight to the death rather than surrender to genocide.

Genocide was on the mind of the one in control of the Stargirls. Garlig craved nothing more than the destruction of all enlightened beings; he viewed them as subversive threats. Advanced civilizations had felt the cleansing wrath of the Aagaa Zaagon Empire, which the Evil Master, Aagaatar, proclaimed the “Final Solution.” Garlig had ingeniously trapped the Star people in the Vaangeez galaxy and laid siege to their defensive outposts, softening them up for the final assault. Now, he wondered why he felt such loathing for the Earth aliens.

He ordered them isolated and requested one be brought to him for interrogation. He felt her youth, a weak link to take advantage of—yet, oddly, feared her the most.

“Aagaa,” he swore, “Aagaa, Aagaa.” He thought that when the Master finished using them, he would have his way. The sadistic thought made his misshapen mouth spew out black drool. “Aagaa, Aagaa,” he howled. The craving to maim and kill grew uncontrollable as his powerful tentacles, engorged with blood, flailed in the air. Conflicting passions arose—to touch their flesh—that checked his homicidal impulse, driving him to command his Troag guards to bring them all, despite his inspired plan to question only the one. He wanted to possess them all. He wanted to get up close to touch and smell them, smell the organic juices that gave them life.

Garlig let out an ugly laugh; the exotic life forms foretold to be his Master’s worst nightmare now stood powerless before him. The Star people’s assassins, sent to save them, would soon stand in judgment while he probed their vulnerability. He was the master artist of terror. Inspired by a ghoulish soul, he covered the canvas of life with mayhem and destruction. Some of his subjects required short, rapid strokes of torture to break them, while others required long brush strokes of agony to render them a work of genius. Those who failed his artistic vision were savagely killed.

Anticipation, terror’s handmaid, he manipulated skillfully. Mind-crippling tools, he plied imaginatively. He used love to create unbearable torture, forcing those he could not break or drive insane to witness loved ones being butchered. The whispered threat the Earth aliens represented only fueled the horrors his mind created for them. His blind hatred was a mix of rage and sexual tension. He detested anything that challenged his power. Anything getting in his way was damned…