Frontier

Paperback, 256 pages

en-Latn language

Published Jan. 1, 2023 by Hodderscape.

ISBN:
978-1-5293-9053-7
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3 stars (2 reviews)

Love. Loss. Laser guns.

In the distant future, climate change has reduced Earth to a hard‐scrabble wasteland. Saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, gunslingers and horse thieves abound. Folk are as diverse and divided as they’ve ever been — except in their shared suspicions when a stranger comes to town.

One night a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet’s first visitor in three hundred years.

She’s armed, she’s scared … and she’s looking for someone.

Frontier is a heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth’s uncertain future, perfect for fans of Becky Chambers and Mary Robinette Kowal.

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Review of 'Frontier' from Storygraph

3 stars

Earth was mostly abandoned after the climate catastrophe. Those who remained, creating a religion of isolation, life is now a wild west society of sheriffs and gunslinging. But one day a ship crashes on Earth and one visitor (the first in hundreds of years) begins her desperate search for the rest of her crew (though mainly, the woman she loves).

The structure of the book follows the visitor through the experiences of different people she encounters as she makes her way across this new west (and the protagonist’s moniker changes through each of their perspectives). This kept things fresh but I felt many of them deserved far more attention and I wish we could have spent more time with them and fleshed them out. But it certainly helped to broaden the world as you pass through it.

It’s been referenced to be as being similar to Becky Chambers and there …

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