Across a Field of Starlight : (a Graphic Novel)

English language

Published Nov. 27, 2022 by Penguin Random House LLC.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-12414-7

(1 review)

This graphic novel is an epic science fiction romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war.

When they were kids, Fassen's fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet that Lu's survey force was exploring. It was a forbidden meeting between a kid from a war-focused resistance movement and a kid whose community and planet are dedicated to peace and secrecy.

Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems. But their friendship keeps them in each other's orbit as they grow up. They stay in contact in secret as their communities are increasingly threatened by the omnipresent, ever-expanding empire.

As the empire begins a new attack against Fassen's people — and discovers Lu's in the process — the two of them have the chance to reunite at last. They finally are able to be together… but at what cost?

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capypokoymal reviewed Across a Field of Starlight : (a Graphic Novel) by Blue Delliquanti

not on a sunbeam

3 stars

it's not nice to compare, but i always think of that when i see queer space opera in comic book format. nothing i can do.

love the characters, the setting and the queerness in it, but i feel like everything is wasted in yet another war story.

i feel like we could have narrated the same story from the civilians point of you, starting from the commune, and everything would have been much more compelling and interesting.

i like that it was a friendship story also, i guess voluntarily playing on the fact that we always automatically ship the main two characters just because that's how we are educated. well, i did at least, and i was happy to have been proven wrong.

Subjects

Children's fiction