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Beautifully Crafted
Thoroughly enjoyed this, it had a wonderful western style that worked really well especially as it wasn’t heavy on the sci-fi vibe.
We follow a mysterious... READ MORE
Shiny
What a great read. This book is a mix of sci-fi, Western and dystopian, but also it's none of these things in isolation. Whilst at its core this is a love ... READ MORE
Spacepeople vs. the Wild West meets Gaia worship - crazy
It took me a while to get into this, but before long the space travel/Wild West/apocalypse setting was really working. It is a funny, exciting book with am... READ MORE
Loved this!!
I absolutely adore this novel! We meet the Stranger through a wide range of characters - each chapter is devoted to a different character's experience and ... READ MORE
Frontier Review
Much comparison has already been made, and will probably continue to be made, between Frontier and Firefly; how could there not be, when you have laser gun... READ MORE
A charming debut novel!
This book was simply good fun! Sitting somewhere comfortably in the intersection between the genres of sci-fi, western, adventure and romance, this debut n... READ MORE
Brilliant!
A sapphic post-apocalyptic sci-fi with a western feel to it, packed to the brim with mystery, love and laser guns. I fell in love with the main character, ... READ MORE
Truly Original!
A queer love story set in a Sci/Fi Western Dystopia, Curtis has made a wonderful piece of fiction. I read it one day, I couldn't put it down!
Thank you to... READ MORE
Fabulous fantasy
A quest driven to reclaim love against the wishes of a hostile people, Frontier is members of a futuristic society returning to a polluted backwards Earth ... READ MORE
Silly, Queer, great fun
An excellent bite-sized space western that gets you home in time for tea. Too many deaths for me at the start, but the second half settled into a flow-stat... READ MORE
Absolutely fantastic.
This books is fantastic. The story follows a women who has crash landed on earth years after its demise, and the inhabitants are descended from those who d... READ MORE
Epic adventure in the dystopian wild west!
One of the most impressive things about Frontier for me is how well it has blended the genres of Sci-Fi and Western. The story follows an unnamed traveller... READ MORE
Brilliant new Sci-Fi
I absolutely adored this book. It follows a women after she crash lands on a planet that doesn't like people from outer space. Curtis does something very i... READ MORE
Absolutely fantastic.
This books is fantastic. The story follows a women who has crash landed on earth years after its demise, and the inhabitants are descended from those who d... READ MORE
Old West meets laser guns.
This is a difficult one for me to reconcile. I loved the book. I loved the story, the different voices, it's meandering plot that had you wondering where i... READ MORE
A sublime sci-fi with apocalyptic Western vibes
I loved this book. Told through a series of vignettes, the protagonist (as stranger, shifting between identities and situations) wanders through a destroye... READ MORE
The Sin of Technology
The people of Earth abandoned their planet many centuries ago as the air turned dry and hot, poisoned by fumes and human ambition. Those who stayed formed ... READ MORE
Your new favourite space western!
I adore Grace Curtis' writing! I read Floating Hotel and immediately picked this one up as well. I loved the premise of a space western, and the execution ... READ MORE
Refreshing queer scifi
Hands down one of my favourite books so far this year. Curtis creates an ingenious framing device to shape the narrative, making her protagonist at once we... READ MORE
Synopsis
A heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth's uncertain future, full of love, loss, and laser guns. Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers and Mary Robinette Kowal.
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781529390568
- Number of pages: 256
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
- Weight: 185g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allFast-paced exciting futuristic road trip
This was a very enjoyable, fast-paced quick read. I was a bit concerned that it might not be my cup of tea, as the blurb mentioned gunslingers and love – ... READ MORE
I was shocked when I read that this was Grace Curtis' debut book!
This book was exactly the book I needed to get me out of my reading slump. It took me by the hand and dragged me over the finish line as I struggled put th... READ MORE
Gaming, cowboys and Sci Fi!
Thank you Hodder & Stoughton and Netgalley for the arc of Frontier by Grace Curtis in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. .
Frontier is definitely... READ MORE
Frontier
Frontier is a really unique book. The author made some bold choices in the structure of this book and they have certainly paid off. I was intrigued to read... READ MORE
Space hijinks & sapphic yearning
Centuries after a dying Earth was abandoned in favour of a future in the stars, a ship crash-lands on the planet, and a woman with a gun blasts her way out... READ MORE
Slow paced fantasy story
Frontier. I could stop my review right there because, in so many different ways, it is completely apt. This book has a very different feel to many Sci-fi b... READ MORE
Ultimately an enjoyable read - but not the magic I was expecting...
I think the first issue for me with this one is the very high expectation I had on picking it up. After all, a direct comparison with the likes of Becky Ch... READ MORE
A superb, episodic sci-fi adventure!!
Simply terrific front-to-back! When a mysterious stranger from space crash-lands back on an Earth long-since abandoned by all but Gaia-worshipping remnants... READ MORE
Absolutely fantasic
This was an instant 5-star read for me. Loved the worldbuilding, loved the characters, loved the prose. I also found the 250-page length really refreshing ... READ MORE
Great story told in an interesting and engrossing way
The book follows a curios character on an enjoyable and intriguing quest. It is written very different from other books like this I've read and I love it f... READ MORE
Way outside my usual genre choice…but I want to go there again!
There is little better than being wowed by a book, and ‘Frontier’ by Grace Curtis certainly hit those heights for me. This might be a familiar story if it ... READ MORE
Delightfully quirky
Not something I would ordinarily read but I really enjoyed this book. A world going to ruin, a great cast of characters and a “will they, won’t they” from ... READ MORE
Sorry, Waterstone's
I bought this because W's blurb described it as ideal for Becky Chambers' fans, but in that respect it was a let down. On its own right it was a good read,... READ MORE
Great SciFi
A great SciFi when Earth reaches towards its end and some of its inhabitants travel to the moon and beyond to find another life. Eventually these look at t... READ MORE
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