Laporta, Mark
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author whose first works were for Young Adult readers, beginning with the Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek sequence, whose eponymous protagonist in the first volume Heart of Earth (2015) finds himself exiled from his home planet – for acts of arrogance and stupidity – and forced to live on Earth as a teenager. Fortunately, he fends of an Invasion by an unfriendly Alien horde, and as the series progresses engages in further exploits, including a Fantastic Voyage into the Multiverse. Laporta's second sequence, Against the Glare of Darkness, is full-blown Space Opera, though the underlying story – humans must fight off galaxy-wide threats – exploits a similar dynamic. [JC]
Mark Laporta
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works
series
The Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek
- Heart of Earth (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2014) [Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek: hb/]
- Heart of Mystery (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2015) [Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek: hb/]
- Mirror at the Heart of Time (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2017) [Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek: hb/]
Against the Glare of Darkness
- Probability Shadow (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2018) [Against the Glare of Darkness: pb/]
- Entropy Refraction (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2021) [Against the Glare of Darkness: pb/]
collections
- Orbitals: Journeys to Future Worlds (New York: Chickadee Prince Press, 2020) [coll: ebook: na/]
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