Wild Stars 5: The Artomique Paradigm

Available in trade paparback (top left) on Amazon!

Available in hardcover (top right) on Lulu!

Reviews:

Review by Caroline Furlong:
" If you can picture one of the best Marvel time travel stories mixed with Doctor Who, Star Wars, Dune,
and Flash Gordon, then you would have an accurate image of this latest installment in the Wild Stars* universe.
The worlds explored by the story are rich, varied, and feel very lived-in. If Star Wars is a space opera
appetizer while Flash Gordon and Dune are main courses, then Wild Stars is a very sweet dessert.

... this writer found The Artomique Paradigm quite enjoyable.
Reading Wild Stars proper is definitely on this author's list of things to do in the future."

Review by Nathan on Castalia House: "Tierney is always a welcome sight.
This raygun star opera certainly lives up to its name..."

5-Star review by John E. Boyle on Amazon:: "Part one of an offering by the great Michael Tierney ...
Cirsova has the good stuff."

4-Star review by Dave Higgins on Good Reads:
"Tierney's novel reads like Dune with the introspection on tyranny and freedom replaced with ... action.
As the first of three parts, the story does not resolve itself; however, it does reach a significant
minor shift in the starting situation so is unlikely to leave readers who were enjoying it in utter
agony until they can read the next part.
This story is set in Tierney's Wild Stars universe and ... will draw the reader deeper into the world."

Review by Nathan on Castalia House:
"... feats of heroism, and quick-paced twists worthy of the classic Argosy magazine."

"... this second set of chapters settles into a wild dash across a pirate planet.
The locales are ambitious and pulpy,
setting a backdrop for a plot that movies at the speed of Max Brand's historic adventures.
An internal logic to the gleefully over-the-top names reveals itself ...
This portion of The Artomique Paradigm ends with a masterful cliffhanger."

"...a worthy addition to the long-running string of excellence..."

Paul Hair ran his interview with the Publisher of Cirsova, which has:
" ... many people proclaiming us to be a second coming of Weird Tales or Planet Stories."

5-Star review by John E. Boyle on Amazon:
"...a new Wild Stars novel by the great Michael Tierney (with artwork by DarkFilly) ...
More of the good stuff from Cirsova!"

Review by Dave Higgins:
"Tierney weaves multiple vast and complex schemes by various groups
with fast-paced brutal combats and ultra-technology."
Review on Castalia House:
"... audacious space opera ..."

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Collected edition coming soon in hardcover and trade paperback!

Cirsova Publishing's release of Wild Stars 5: The Artomique Paradigm in both hardcover and
trade paperback through Kickstarter
FUNDED IN JUST OVER FIVE HOURS!

This promotion includes a KICKSTARTER
EXCLUSIVE VARIANT with a vigin cover by Dark Filly and color by Raven Monroe!

Click any of the images above or THIS LINK to discover the other exclusive content
that will be offered!

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February 5, 2021 Update
On Sale Now!

Because of delays and getting the artwork so late in the campaign,
Cirsova has decided to scrap the Kickstarter solicition,
and put the Spring 2021 issue ON SALE NOW for early shipping March 31!

This change of plan has resulted a change in what will be available.

The main cover by Anton Oxnuk is available in both paperback and hardcover.

The Genzoman variant cover is availabe in paperback with the traditional trade text,
and as a virgin cover in hardcover.

Publisher Alex Alexander's Chen cover is available in both paperback and hardcover.

So to recap, here are the paperback covers (again, Chen is NOT an Artomique),
click on any paperback cover to be taken directly to Amazon:


Here are the hardcover editons:


Part Two of The Artomique Paradigm is HERE:

The Fall 2021 issue #8 of Cirsova Volume 2, features
the final, Part Three of The Artomique Paradigm, and a Bad Girls of Cirsova cover as (from left to right)
the Red Queen from the Wild Stars joins Tanree from Paul O'Conner's Badaxe (with artwork digitally restored by Michael)
and Kat from Too Many Mangos, the latest installment of Mongoose & Meerkat by Jim Breyfogle.
Artwork by Raven Monroe!


Available in trade paperback editions from Amazon
and hardcover editions from Lulu.

Bonus Edition of Part 3!

Not announced until the print edition of Cirsova 8 with Part 3 went on sale on Spetember 8,
is this bonus, black-and-white varaint with art by Genzoman that once again visits the theme
of 'The Bad Girls of Cirsova,' with the Red Queen of the Wild Stars right in the middle of things!
Available NOW!

January 22, 2021 Update

Here's a sneak peak at one of Dark Filly's illustrations for The Artomique Paradigm
that will run with Part One in the Spring issue.

That's the Red Queen, also known as the Red Witch and something else very similar that rhymes
(and the last word begins with a B), sitting next to Achilles Hister, who looks in good health for a man
who should be around 250 years old. And speaking of being in good health--didn't the Red Queen die in
Wild Stars 3: Time Warmageddon--eaten alive by a red grief--
shown below in Mark Wheatley's illustration from the back cover of the
SOLD OUT first edition? How the heck does someone come back from something like that?



The answers to all these mysteries await in Wild Stars 5: The Artomique Paradigm,
on Kickstarter now--where you could be come the proud owner of Dark Filly's original art
for her illustration above!

Available for Pre-Order NOW!

Serialized across 2021's Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense issues #6 through #8,
Michael Tierney's latest Wild Stars novel is the most dramatic yet!
It features a finale you won't expect and space battles that would look fantastic adapted to the cinema.
It's something you've never imagined before!
And it's been being set up ever since Book One.
Way back when all the Wild Stars comic book series were collected in the 2002 Wild Stars 1: The Book of Circles,
one reviewer was surprised that the main antagonists, the Artomiques, had survived
their attempt to destroy our reality and replace it with theirs--where fascism ruled the world.

The Artomiques have been making brief appearances throughout the subsequent novels,
but now you get to see exactly what they've been up to over the next 200 years!
Yes, you read that right :)
This time the Artomiques plan not just world domination--but dominion over all the stars as well!

Cirsova Publications is going all out on this.
The cover shown is by Anton Oxenuk,
who did the cover for Michael Tierney's posthumous collaboration with Edgar Rice Burroughs
on Young Tarzan and the Mysterious She when it debuted in Cirsova.
Once again Anton did a fabulous job, and is the first to llustrate the debut of a new character,
Bullson--the child that former president Bully Bravo didn't know he had!
Go back to the prelude of Wild Stars 3: Time Warmageddon for clues.

Anton also illustrated the stunning wraparoiund cover for the Wild Stars Omnibus hardcover,
which collected all Wild Stars material published up to that point.

But this isn't the only cover that Cirsova has commissioned for Part One of The Artomique Paradigm.

Genzoman from Udon Studios created an alternate cover which features Bullson's encounter with the Artomiques--
which is their first full cover appearance (Easter Egg Alert: there is a cameo on Anton's cover)!


This spectacular cover by Genzoman is available exclusively on the Kickstarter offering!
Genzoman's cover follows sequentially directly after the scene illustrated by Anton Oxenuk.
But wait, like a genzu knife commercial--there's more!

Black-and-white interior illustrations for The Artomique Paradigm will be done by Dark Filly--
with her rendition of The Red Queen (yeah... she's back--you'll have to find out how) being offered on the Kickstarter!

Michael Tierney also has artwork in this issue--of a sort.
Advertised on the cover is the first part of a 3-part serialization reprint of the Bad Axe comic book from the 1990s.
The original artwork for this series was long lost, leaving only the original comics--
printed on pulp paper in black-and-white with heavy ink coverage.
After 30 years of being shuffled around in back issue bins, the copies Cirsova had to work with were poor and heavily ink-smudged.
Michael did the digital restoration for this entire, nearlly 100-page story,
including the color cover restorations,
endeavoring to enhance the original artist's attempts at utilizing black on black shading.

And there's still more bonuses to come:

For their 5th Anniversary celebraton with this issue,
Cirsova will be offering exclusive formats on the Genzoman cover in their upcoming Kickstarter,
which will have hardcover and softcover versions of both covers that will not be available any other way--
along with yet another, third cover, shown to the right!

Despite what the cover headline says:
That not a scene from The Artomique Paradigm being pictured.
The Artomiques may be from an alternate reality--but they are not furry fascists.
That's an illustration by Cirsova editor "Alex" Alexander of a licensed Touhou character
(used by permission) celebrating the magazine's 5th Anniversary!

And... if Kickstarters aren't something you do, Anton's cover will soon be available for preorder on Amazon.

Put the Wild in your Stars for 2021 and check it all out here!

Here are Anton's covers mentioned earlier:

Wild Stars IV: Wild Star Rising