Publishers Weekly on Home Fires (mild spoilers)

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? ᚹ

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. ᚹ

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:55 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote: \>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes-

Highly, and you can download it legally. It's a family saga set in and around a Singularity.

Which I have totally blonked out. I read it but didn't think much of it.