YA Science Fiction

Zorra Wessing and the Platinum Starship

Raised by a space pirate, fourteen-year-old Zorra Wessing arrives at Earth's most elite piloting academy only to discover that the ruthless commander who destroyed her family has followed her there.

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Steven MirandaAuthor
YA Sci-FiGenre
Ages 13+Audience
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The Book

A girl from nowhere. A universe that isn't ready for her.

YA Science Fiction Series Ages 13+

Fourteen-year-old Zorra Wessing has spent her entire life aboard the pirate starship Helix, raised as the ward of its Genomian captain, Grixx. She has never known her parents, her home planet, or a life that didn't involve narrow escapes and stolen cargo runs.

When she receives the Galactic Summons of Honor and arrives at Galaxcium, Earth's most elite piloting academy, she discovers the truth her parents died to protect: the Vantosi are coming for Earth, and their spy is already inside the walls of the Academy.

Zorra has one ship, one stealth suit, and a crew of friends who were never supposed to become family. It will have to be enough.

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Author Steven Miranda

Steven Miranda

Author B.A. University of Dallas
The Author

Twenty-Two Years in the Making

I started world-building Zorra Wessing and the Platinum Starship the year my eldest daughter turned three. She is about to turn twenty-five.

I am a father of two daughters. I wrote this book because I wanted them to have a female protagonist who looked like a possibility, not a limitation. That is the book I spent twenty-two years building.

“Zorra is a girl who comes from nowhere anyone would expect, raised by people who were not supposed to be her family, and she becomes exactly who she decides to be. That is the message I wanted my daughters to carry with them.”

I am a graduate of the University of Dallas and a lifelong astronomy nerd. The galaxies, star systems, and deep space phenomena in this universe are grounded in what we actually know about space. The fiction follows the science.

This is Book 1 of a nine-book series. I hope it reaches every reader who has ever been told that where they come from defines where they can go and what they can do.