Darby Harn
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Interactive Fiction, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Darby Harn is the author of Dead Malls, Stargun Messenger, a Self Published Science Fiction Contest Quarterfinalist, and Ever The Hero, which Publisher’s Weekly called an “entertaining debut that uses superpowers as a metaphor to delve into class politics in an alternate America.” His fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, and more. He is a panelist, moderator, and the host and creator of his One Hour Short Story Workshop, featured at several major cons.
Darby Harn's books
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Horror, Interactive Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Sometimes, you can take retail therapy too far... You work the night shift as a security guard in a dying mall. You're living out of your car. Suffice to say, you're looking for an escape. One night in the mall, you happen upon an intruder dressed as if she's an extra from a Mad Max movie. You discover the mall is a gateway to another world. But it's not a world anyone wants to escape to. Diane's world ended in 1983 in a nuclear holocaust. Ever since, she's clawed out a broken existence in a scorched wasteland, clinging to a ragged department store Christmas catalog from her youth. You have more questions than answers, but you do have choices, and the first presents itself when an armored knight riding a radioactive snake arrives in search of Diane and her book. Make your choice. Protect Diane, fight her strange pursuer, flee...
Genres: Adventure, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Astra Idari must keep the last living star alive in a galaxy lost to shadows. Astra Idari is a mess. She drinks too much, remembers too little, and barely pays for it all as a Stargun Messenger. She hunts down thieves who steal filamentium, the fuel that allows for faster-than-light travel. When Idari meets Gen Emera, she meets the girl of her dreams and the last living star. There's just one problem. Filamentium is only found in the blood of living stars. Everyone wields knives and justifications for butchering the living stars, but once Idari knows the truth, she faces a stark choice. Either she turns Emera over to her employers who control the filamentium monopoly, or risks everything to help Emera fulfill her quest to save her people. The choice should be simple, but it's not losing her life that terrifies Idari. It's finally living. Idari knows she's human...
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, LGBTQ+
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Superheroes are big business. Imagine not being able to afford them. Kit Baldwin is just trying to make things work. She scavenges for valuable artifacts from a crashed alien ship, the only industry in a city still in ruins. When Kit discovers a powerful alien object, it pays off more than she ever hoped. The artifact draws the attention of Valene Blackwood, a superhuman who gained her powers from the ship. A passionate romance sparks between the two, but they couldn’t be from more different worlds. Kit struggles to pay rent while Valene lives in a penthouse atop a tower her family built selling superhuman protection for a fee. The city can no longer afford it, and the Empowered withhold their services. Valene stands with the city, but her gifts come at a steep price. She hears everything, everywhere, always. Kit’s ambition morphs into harnessing the object’s cosmic potential to...