Frontera

by Lewis Shiner

Book Overview

Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debutAfter the world's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671558994
• ISBN13: 9780671558994
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lewis Shiner's Literary Debut

This exceptional early cyberpunk novel should be in print. Shiner offers a spellbinding look at the early human exploration of Mars that is replete with dense, lyrical prose. Stylistically, Shiner draws more from Sterling's than Gibson's work in his realistic depiction of space travel. Anyone interested in cyberpunk fiction should regard "Frontera" as part of their essential reading.

Early cyberpunk novel

The bigger luminaries of the cyberpunk world are quick to include Shiner as one of their own, and this is the book which makes the cut. An entertaining novel in and of itself, it obviously has a lot of cyberpunk staples which have gotten pretty trite. One of the most interesting themes of the book parallels one of the character's journey through a Jungian archetypical legend that hearkens back to high school English class.