Retrograde Orbit

By Kristyna Baczynski. Published by Avery Hill Publishing.

Softcover, 108 pages, Colour, 2018.

At the outer edge of the solar system, on the mining planet Tisa, Flint and her mother live in the colony of Swift Springs. Displaced by a nuclear event, Flint’s family settled there two generations ago to become miners. Soon Flint will be old enough to begin her apprenticeship at the refinery.

But is the home that her family has built for her enough, or will a mysterious, irradiated planet pull her away from them? By following in their footsteps and leaving to forge a new path, is she betraying her family, or honouring their legacy?

Exploring notions of home and the desire to leave it, Kristyna Baczynski’s first graphic novel is a story of relationships, of time and of the motion of the universe.