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Plot Summary of Earth, the New Frontier
"When the stellar event of the millennia goes terribly wrong, Earth finds itself being pounded back to the stone age as it passes through a lunar debris field.

Rising from the ashes of society, a discredited soldier named John Hammond finds himself leading a convoy of survivors north along the Arizona/New Mexico border to a government bunker that is alleged to exist somewhere in southern Colorado.

The band quickly finds themselves being pursued by an army of convicts formed from the remnants of the penal system. A leader of the Aryan Nation, a white supremist prison gang, Matt Camron's ruthlessness is akin to that of Idi Amin. Sweeping through towns along the way, he and his growing band of pirates rape and pillage everything in their path.

Pursued by a small band of national guardsmen intent on wiping out the pirate army, Camron sets his sights on Hammond's convoy. With murderous rage the convicts swarm after the tiny caravan as they flee across the broken wasteland of post-apocalyptic Arizona."

Mitch Taylor, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Earth, the New Frontier
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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%




Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - surviving a post environmental/nuclear disaster
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - infantry soldier
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - accused criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Terrain - Desert
Earth setting: - current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - major character becomes a sex slave - rape/molest (yeech!)
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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