name that genre

[JulianLW]

Years ago when I was in grad school, I recall the term "sodbuster" used occasionally to describe novels about settling the west - everything from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather to Larry McMurtry. But a quick Google turns up very little. Maybe it was only a term that literary agents and editors were using in-house.

Anyway, that's the exact genre I thought of when I read your description of the setting - a sort of Frontier Mars, right?

Maybe you're creating a "Marsbuster" genre. There are a lot of space farmer/space frontier settlers books out there, I'm sure, right? Do they have a name?