This isn’t your momma’s space opera. https://amzn.to/3KRppvN
Sarah Hoyt has generated a living, breathing world where the characters are products of their settings, for good and ill, and she’s done it to a level of detail and accuracy that makes it feel alive.
In some cases, that creates some ugly, in many ways brutal, realities. In others, there is adventure, fancy, and even love.
It is a strange future, a strange universe. There are mysteries and questions, some you feel you’re going to get answered and others you may get lucky to get a vague idea.
This book pulls you in from the opening sequence and sucker-punches you with loss and heartache out the get-go, then wraps you up with story and adventure through the whole thing.
There is a learning curve, though, where you’re trying to find out what relationships mean when every societal marker we have as humans is removed… and in that case, are they really human anymore?
There’s a lot going on in No Man’s Land, a lot to think about, and characters that seem ready to jump off the page.
Sarah’s written a crazy, at times psychadelic, rollercoaster ride of a book. It’s bizarre, interesting, and sometimes bewildering. It’s fun and lighthearted, while still pulling your emotions when you least expect it.
Give it a read, you’ll probably like it.
Kal Spriggs 
It started fine for me. On chapter two, it started to get weird, but still sci-fi enough to read through. On chapter three, the presumed hero reveals his homosexuality.
Suddenly, sci-fi got polluted with woke, and my interest died. I have had too much wokism vomited at me. No need for more, nor desire to be more soiled internally.
Book is now in garbage can. Unread. Sorry I wasted my time and money.
Could have been great. But it ain’t! Not for me.
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Hoyt is about as far from woke as you can get and remain in civilized society.
Full disclosure: I bought the book, but I haven’t started it yet. My comment is about Sarah, not the book.
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Same here. Was in the airport two days ago waiting for my flight and reading this book, and decided by the end of chapter 3 that this attempt to cloak woke within sci-fi was not for me. Maybe some other traveler will enjoy a free book from the airport lounge…
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I can understand not wanting homosexuality in the book, but as others have pointed out, Sarah Hoyt is about as far from woke as anyone I know. She’s been attacked by the woke mob for standing up for conservatives in SF&F, was one of the original Sad Puppies for the Hugo Awards, has been banned/barred from conventions, and has even been accused of being a pseudonym for various male conservative authors.
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Well no, it’s not in the least bit woke. It’s Sarah Hoyt, for goodness’s sake!
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Funnily enough I have a book called “No Man’s Land”, it is a history of World War I, specifically about 1918, and not a bad one either.author John Tolland. Quite few others with the same title, but good luck with the novel.
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Not my book, just a review, but thanks!
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