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Gene Wolfe
ISBN: 9780765328199
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Tor Books
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Takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems...
Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and Chelle's months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. She returns to recuperate from severe injuries, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person - while he is in his forties and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return. Still in love (somewhat to his surprise and delight), they go on a Caribbean cruise that rapidly becomes a complex set of challenges, not the least of which are spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who capture the ship for ransom.
| ISBN | 0765328194 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | ISBN13 | 9780765328199
(What's this?) | | Pages | 304 | | Publisher | Tor Books | | Weight (grammes) | 240 | | Imprint | Tor Books | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 07 Feb 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General |
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"Gene Wolfe remains a hero to me. He's just turned eighty...and is still writing deep, complex, brilliant fiction that slips between genres.... He's the finest living male American writer of SF and fantasy--possibly the finest living American writer." --Neil Gaiman "With complications involving spies, murderers, cyborgs and pirates...compelling work from one of the genre's grandmasters." --"Kirkus Review" (starred review) "The purest SF novel from Wolfe in something like a decade.... Amazingly, Wolfe's approach to SF themes that we thought we knew all about is as innovative and elegant as ever." --"Locus" "[Readers] will be pleased by this latest display of all of the gifts of one of SF's authentic all-time masters, including original and balanced characterization, masterly world-building, and an ethical sensibility of the highest degree." --"Booklist" "Wolfe still has a few surprises up his sleeve, and "Home Fires" is one of them... The book is fast-paced and
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