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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.
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By: Gene Wolfe
Imprint: St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN:
9780765328199
ISBN 10: 0765328194
Pages: 304
Publication Date: January 2012
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In stock at Galaxy Bookshop
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<p> 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 <br> With complications involving spies, murderers, cyborgs and pirates...compelling work from one of the genre's grandmasters. -- Kirkus Review (starred review) <br> 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 <br> [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 <p> 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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