Frontera - Softcover

Shiner, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596063386 ISBN 13: 9781596063389

Publisher: Subterranean Press, 2010

Synopsis

Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.

About this title

About the Author

Lewis Shiner is the award-winning author of the novels Dark Tangos, Say Goodbye, and Glimpses, among others. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Review

''Lewis Shiner's Frontera is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel . . . his pacing is brisk, his scientific extrapolation well-informed and plausible, and his characterization nothing short of outstanding . . . This is 'realism' of a sort seldom found in either commercial or literary fiction; to find it in a first novel makes one eager for more.'' --Chicago Sun-Times

''Hard-edged and colorful and relentless, and altogether a compelling read.'' --George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones

''One of the genre's most arresting books.'' --Rolling Stone

Edition details

• Publisher: Subterranean Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596063386
• ISBN 13: 9781596063389
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188