VANGUARD PRIME

Queensland author Steven Lochran’s Vanguard Prime series is a classic heroes and villains tale for readers aged 12+. Full of action, it’s described as ‘Alex Rider joins the X-Men’.

This series works around the challenges for ‘normal’ people who discover they have superpowers in a world where this may not always make you popular. Sam Lee’s superpowers emerge when he’s a teenager and lead to him becoming the youngest ever member of his gang of childhood heroes, Vanguard Prime.
Issues of acceptance, difference and ‘true’ bravery emerge amidst action packed save-the-world story lines. The girl heroes – with their own twisted personal journeys to power – are every bit as important as the boys. Very much in the comic book superhero tradition, this is a dark series and gives every reader the chance to imagine what it might be like if they woke up one morning with unimaginable powers!