# Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers) *The Urth list — 4 messages, 2 voices, 17 Dec 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### James Wynn *17 Dec 2010, 15:47* http://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/ /*Home Fires by Gene Wolfe */ /From Publishers Weekly: "Against a backdrop of science fictional elements such as time dilation through space travel, cyborgs, and brain downloads, Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee Wolfe (The Sorcerer's House) builds a romance and a mystery. Successful lawyer Skip Grison wants to find a wonderful gift for his contracted paramour, Chelle Blue, now 20 years his junior after an interstellar military tour. *After reuniting Chelle with her estranged mother, Vanessa, whose consciousness has been downloaded into a new body*, Skip takes Chelle on a round-the-world cruise that turns into an almost screwball comedy of hijackings and chaos as shadowy people may be trying to get to Skip, Chelle, Vanessa, or someone else entirely. Red herrings and unknown, mistaken, or confused identities saturate the novel, making this well suited for readers, especially mystery readers, who don't often read science fiction." / --------------------- Does it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite author right now? u+16b9 --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *17 Dec 2010, 16:17 · in reply to James Wynn* > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:47 AM, James Wynn wrote: > http://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/ > Does it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite author > right now? Actually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read _Accelerando_? ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes ``` --- ### James Wynn *17 Dec 2010, 16:55 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* >> James Wynn- >> http://undermyappletree.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/friday-finds-december-17th/ >> Does it seem to anyone else that Cory Doctorow is Wolfe's favorite author >> right now? > Dan'l Danehy-Oakes- > Actually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read _Accelerando_? Hmm...no. Do you recommend it? But _An Evil Guest_ folded in Doctorow's mountain and washing machine married couple from _Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves_ and --while the concept of downloading backups in to new bodies is not unique-- this bit does bring to mind _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_. u+16b9 --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *17 Dec 2010, 17:03 · in reply to James Wynn* On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:55 AM, James Wynn wrote: \>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes- >> Actually I would think first of Charles Stross. Have you read >> _Accelerando_? > Hmm...no. Do you recommend it? Highly, and you can download it legally. It's a family saga set in and around a Singularity. > But _An Evil Guest_ folded in Doctorow's mountain and washing machine > married couple from _Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves_ and --while the > concept of downloading backups in to new bodies is not unique-- this bit > does bring to mind _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_. Which I have totally blonked out. I read it but didn't think much of it. ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes ``` ---