Frontier

De: Grace Curtis

Narrado por: Aven Shore

In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound.

What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy.

Then a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet's first visitor in three hundred years. This Stranger is a crewmember on the first ship in centuries to attempt a return to Earth and save what's left. But her escape pod crashes hundreds of miles away from the rest of the wreckage.

The Stranger finds herself adrift in a ravaged, unwelcoming landscape, full of people who hate and fear her space-born existence. Scared, alone, and armed, she embarks on a journey across the wasteland to return to her ship, her mission, and the woman she loves.

Fusing the fire and brimstone of the American Old West with sprawling post-apocalyptic science fiction, Frontier is a heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff set against the backdrop of our planet's uncertain future.

©2023 Grace Curtis (P)2023 Tantor

A standout in its genre

This story unfolded like a flower. At first seeming like a simple sci-fi western, and then revealing layers of upon layer of characters, and story, and depth. This story is a triumph. Evolving in chapters broken up into almost comic-book episode type vignettes, the journey we take with the main character reveals more and more richness in characters and even in the world itself until finally we find ourselves in a world-shaking climax of power and corruption and love and control and perseverance. I loved the arc of this story, and the story as a whole.

The narration was top shelf. It’s easy to understand why this audiobook was nominated to be the best sci-fi audio of the year. The narrator seamlessly navigates the diverse range of characters, and is also able to capture the flavor of each different chapter beautifully. Their tone is crisp, clear, easy to listen to, and easy to lose oneself in the storytelling.

The narrator is the only good thing

Terrible. I kept thinking I had fallen asleep and missed a chapter. Some key points were all of a sudden mentioned and then never mentioned again. It is like chapters were missing