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Star Man

By Joey Stardust

He spent his life looking up at the stars.
He never imagined one day they would look back.

From the stillness of a childhood lake to the endless dark of deep space, Star Man is a breathtaking, introspective journey across time, silence, and the vast frontier of the human spirit. It is both an odyssey of discovery and a meditation on loneliness — where the final frontier isn’t outer space, but the space within.

Jonah Crest was the boy who didn’t fit in. Soft-spoken, curious, and obsessed with the night sky, he found comfort in the stars when the world felt too cruel to bear. As he grows, that fascination becomes purpose — a fire that propels him from a forgotten rural town to the elite halls of NASA’s Deep Space Program.

What begins as a search for meaning among the stars becomes a confrontation with existence itself. Jonah’s journey takes him through isolation training in the desert, experimental missions in orbit, and finally to Project Horizon — humanity’s first attempt to breach the boundaries of known space. But as he and his crew drift beyond Earth’s signal, strange transmissions begin to echo through their ship — whispers of voices from the past, memories that don’t belong to them, and reflections that seem to move on their own.

In the silence between the stars, reality begins to bend. Time folds. And Jonah must face the one thing he has always feared most: himself.

Part philosophical sci-fi epic, part psychological coming-of-age story, Star Man explores what it means to be human in a universe that refuses to answer back. As his mission unravels, Jonah discovers that the true frontier isn’t the void beyond the ship’s glass — it’s the fragile heartbeat inside it.

From the creator of The Fifth Ship and The Eve Project, Joey Stardust delivers a hauntingly beautiful work of speculative fiction that blurs the line between science and soul. His prose burns with cinematic imagery and quiet emotion, blending the existential wonder of Arthur C. Clarke, the intimacy of Ad Astra, and the poetic solitude of Ray Bradbury into a single, unforgettable journey.