Across a Field of Starlight: (A Graphic Novel)

by Blue Delliquanti

Paperback, 2022

Status

Available

Call number

PZ7.7.D464 A37 2022

Genres

Graphic Novels

Comics

Graphic Novels and Comics

Collections

Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, People of Color Rep, Nonbinary

Publication

Random House Graphic (2022), 352 pages

Description

Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bibliovermis

Beautifully illustrated, this graphic novel is a classic sci-fi story in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, exploring themes similar to The Dispossessed and to The Left Hand of Darkness, but with a lot of colorful, kinetic action. What makes a person? What do people deserve? The

political and moral questions are advanced, but the reading level is not, and the story is fast-paced and never dry or too dense (much like a great quickbread). I absolutely loved it.

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LibraryThing member reader1009

children's graphic sci-fi adventure fiction, standalone (nonbinary author/artist)

Lu, a Black tween from a team of researchers and Fassen (they/them), a brown-skinned tween whose rebel family was killed trying to get to safety, and whose pronouns are understood by everyone without having to explain

them, become unlikely intragalactic penpals.

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LibraryThing member villemezbrown

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . Fassen Ruust, a fifteen-year-old, is recruited as a child soldier by a rebel army fighting imperial forces. Ruust has great instincts and natural talents, progressing rapidly in the ranks. It's all very Star Wars until the war crimes.

On the side,

Ruust maintains a forbidden long-distance zine-writing relationship with Lu, a member of a neutral science utopia hiding from the empire with the help of an artificial intelligence named Field. Lu likes to science, exploring worlds and secretly helping Ruust figure out new technology stolen from the empire.

There are interesting gender diversity aspects, but that all gets lost as the overly long book mires down in muddled action scenes, complex and yet still vague world building, and simplistic nice-people-win-because-they're-nice plotting.

I've enjoyed Blue Delliquanti's previous books, especially the down-to-earth Meal, but this space epic is a fizzle for me.

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