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Irshan Rajput
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Sci-fi author / Echo Directive / querying Fall 2025
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Need an Agent's Guide to Echo: Directive, the emotionally haunted cousin of Mass Effect and A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?

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A space-themed banner titled "An Agent’s Guide to ECHO: DIRECTIVE" in bold red sci-fi font. A glowing black hole or eclipse dominates the center, surrounded by bright, fiery light. Comets streak across a star-speckled galaxy background. At the bottom, a pink waveform graphic evokes sound or data transmission. A sci-fi themed graphic labeled “COMPS AND TROPES.” It compares Echo: Directive to three works: Mass Effect (left): underlined with “GALACTIC THREAT” and “FIRST CONTACT” The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (center): underlined with “GRIEF AND LOVE” and “THE SHIP IS HOME” This Is How You Lose the Time War (right): underlined with “AGAINST ALL ODDS” and “DEPTH AND GROWTH” Red arrows point from the comps to headers reading FOUND FAMILY and EMOTIONAL INTIMACY in sci-fi font. The background is a blue-lit starship corridor. Sci-fi styled pitch screen with glowing grid background and red block text. The pitch reads: “AUGMENTED SNIPER CAELIS THORNE REFUSED TO KILL A SUPERSOLDIER. HE LOST THE WAR—AND CONDEMNED HALF OF HUMANITY TO OPPRESSION. NOW HE HAS TO STOP A REALITY-ERASING ALIEN SIGNAL BEFORE IT CONSUMES EVERYTHING… INCLUDING THE WOMAN HE COULDN’T BRING HIMSELF TO KILL.” Header at the top says "PITCH" in bold red text. A glowing synthwave-style background with stars and pulsing neon waves. In the center, red futuristic text reads: ECHO: DIRECTIVE SCIENCE FICTION 105K WORDS At the bottom, a list of themes and elements: SPACE OPERA FOUND FAMILY NEURODIVERGENCY POST-WAR SURVIVAL AI AS A CHILD THAT’S TERRIFIED OF HERSELF AND A SIGNAL THAT OVERWRITES EVERYTHING WE KNOW
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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A sniper who refused to kill.
A commander who no longer believes.
A dying medic.
A pilot with secrets.
A human who died to become an AI.
A digital girl they're trying to raise.

And the alien signal threatening to erase them all.

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August 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What if Mass Effect and A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet had an emotionally haunted cousin?

ECHO: DIRECTIVE

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Movie-poster style graphic for the science fiction novel ECHO: DIRECTIVE. A black planet eclipses a blazing sun in deep space, flares and fiery meteors streaking past against a backdrop of purple, orange, and gold nebula clouds. Bold orange title at the top: “ECHO: DIRECTIVE.” Beneath, tagline in orange: “He lost the war by not killing her. Now he has to save her before she finds out.” At the bottom, smaller orange text lists tropes: “Found family / Galactic threat / Messy emotions on a ship / Diverse cast / Enemies to more / Survival against all odds.” Final line in larger orange text: “Querying Now.”
August 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM