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Project Frontier
For fifty years, Project Frontier has brought together the best and the brightest to save the future of mankind. That future lies on Pollux: a planet formed in Earth's likeness. Leena Cote was nine when she was recruited, and for a girl who couldn't stay out of trouble, and whose parents struggled to make ends meet, the decision was more than simple. At sixteen, Leena’s time has finally come.
When Leena begins the 180 day intergalactic journey aboard the Pioneer, her dreams of becoming a scientist are crushed before they start. The Project Frontier leaders assign her to be a Ranger: a position that Leena has never even heard of. And her training onboard the ship points to something dangerous, something lethal. But just when Leena’s future on Pollux seems bleak, Win, a fellow Ranger, teaches her that life on the new planet may be the right start she has always wanted.
Yet unbeknownst to Leena, Pollux holds secrets that she could never imagine. For the first time in her life, the dying Earth she left behind seems like a dream compared to the deadly planet that she has no choice but to call home. But then again, there’s one rule in Project Frontier, one cardinal rule that drives every person on Pollux: Don’t look back.
Because no matter what Leena does, there is no going back.
When Leena begins the 180 day intergalactic journey aboard the Pioneer, her dreams of becoming a scientist are crushed before they start. The Project Frontier leaders assign her to be a Ranger: a position that Leena has never even heard of. And her training onboard the ship points to something dangerous, something lethal. But just when Leena’s future on Pollux seems bleak, Win, a fellow Ranger, teaches her that life on the new planet may be the right start she has always wanted.
Yet unbeknownst to Leena, Pollux holds secrets that she could never imagine. For the first time in her life, the dying Earth she left behind seems like a dream compared to the deadly planet that she has no choice but to call home. But then again, there’s one rule in Project Frontier, one cardinal rule that drives every person on Pollux: Don’t look back.
Because no matter what Leena does, there is no going back.
390 pages, Paperback
First published May 16, 2015
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C. Zaragoza
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January 14, 2016
I was the lucky winner of this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.
This is one of the most realistic sci-fi's that I've ever read, which I absolutely love about it. The characters are so believable and well-developed that I feel like I know them like they're my best friends. Their actions are reasonable, very real and expected which is what I think has to happen in a sci-fi: if everything is so fantastic and different and unreal, then it just gets kind of sappy and it's easy to predict what is supposed to be "unpredictable". But with characters that would act the way I would in the out-there situations in this book, I feel more connected to the environment and the story. Great job with that!
The level of mystery and intrigue for this story is nearly top-notch. The author perhaps lets a little too much slip through the cracks, and could have really dialed things up by throwing some wrenches in here and there, but otherwise it's the right amount of bizarre but logical. I made various guesses about the nature of the all-mysterious Pollux, but most of those guesses were wrong, and that actually is very pleasing in a book like this.
This is one of the most realistic sci-fi's that I've ever read, which I absolutely love about it. The characters are so believable and well-developed that I feel like I know them like they're my best friends. Their actions are reasonable, very real and expected which is what I think has to happen in a sci-fi: if everything is so fantastic and different and unreal, then it just gets kind of sappy and it's easy to predict what is supposed to be "unpredictable". But with characters that would act the way I would in the out-there situations in this book, I feel more connected to the environment and the story. Great job with that!
The level of mystery and intrigue for this story is nearly top-notch. The author perhaps lets a little too much slip through the cracks, and could have really dialed things up by throwing some wrenches in here and there, but otherwise it's the right amount of bizarre but logical. I made various guesses about the nature of the all-mysterious Pollux, but most of those guesses were wrong, and that actually is very pleasing in a book like this.
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August 27, 2019SPOILERS
I can't deny that I enjoyed this book and am eagerly anticipating it's sequel. That is a given fact. The brief, although realistic view on life in a few centuries is somewhat like Terra Nova just without the dinosaurs!
Leena, who is recruited onto Project Frontier when she was 9 finally leaves on her 6 month space journey to Pollux. During her trip she begins her training, not as scientist as she suspected but as a Ranger. While there she meets handsome Win, also in ranger training. During training they begin to suspect that their journey to Pollux isn't exactly what they signed up for when one of their training group goes missing without explanation. When they arrive on Pollux things only begin to get stranger. Becoming Terrain Rangers Win and Leena have to hunt down an escaped prisoner who killed his guard during escape. Only after recapturing him does Leena begin hearing his voice in her head, begging for her to help him. Doing so unlocks a course of events she never saw coming.
This book gives you enough questions to want to keep reading after every chapter and leaves you with such a cliff hanger at the end that I am gutted that the next book isn't out yet. The fact that Leena is the only person who could hear voices other than Gideon, suggests that she is from Pollux in some way since Gideon was born there.
All in all, an excellent book!
I can't deny that I enjoyed this book and am eagerly anticipating it's sequel. That is a given fact. The brief, although realistic view on life in a few centuries is somewhat like Terra Nova just without the dinosaurs!
Leena, who is recruited onto Project Frontier when she was 9 finally leaves on her 6 month space journey to Pollux. During her trip she begins her training, not as scientist as she suspected but as a Ranger. While there she meets handsome Win, also in ranger training. During training they begin to suspect that their journey to Pollux isn't exactly what they signed up for when one of their training group goes missing without explanation. When they arrive on Pollux things only begin to get stranger. Becoming Terrain Rangers Win and Leena have to hunt down an escaped prisoner who killed his guard during escape. Only after recapturing him does Leena begin hearing his voice in her head, begging for her to help him. Doing so unlocks a course of events she never saw coming.
This book gives you enough questions to want to keep reading after every chapter and leaves you with such a cliff hanger at the end that I am gutted that the next book isn't out yet. The fact that Leena is the only person who could hear voices other than Gideon, suggests that she is from Pollux in some way since Gideon was born there.
All in all, an excellent book!
June 26, 2015
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