Mostly Spoiler Free Thoughts on Home Fires

Jeff Wilson · 02 Mar 2011, 19:01 · from 2011-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:01:09 -0600
Subject: (urth) Mostly Spoiler Free Thoughts on Home Fires
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On 3/2/2011 11:55 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Well, first of all, there seems to be a complete lack of wolves. Not a
> one, unless I missed something.
>
> The "meditation" sections often seem to be lessons from Gene Wolfe
> about how to reason out the plot details of his novels.
>
> This is one of the most emotionally satisfying books GW has ever written.
>
> Kind of shapeless, plotwise.

It's boy meets girl overall, with pirates and spies and a whodunnit as 
the obstacles to overcome.

There's also almost a total lack of technical detail of any kind, and 
the SFnal elements are barely more than tokens.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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