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Home Fires (2011)

by Gene Wolfe(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765328186 (ISBN13: 9780765328182)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: Gene Wolfe has mastered a crystalline art of prose, precious, delicately strong, and increasingly unalterable. His trademark stylistic gestures are here – the conflicted, conservative male protagonist, the two-dimensional female cipher (object of male adoration / fascination and little else), the rapid dislocations of text to obscure plot points and the skilfully uncertain changed world of technological advances. But it's aging rapidly, like its author, and the increasingly conservative choices Wolfe makes in content & plot detract from his otherwise proficient explorations in the upper ranges of science fiction.
review 2: I rarely throw in the towel with a book I do not like, but halfway through, and Home Fires has slowed down into a rather dull crime proce... moredural aboard a cruise liner. There is a vague SF angle, and I am sure Wolfe ties it all up with a neat genre bow at the end. Conceptually too thin and emotionally too unengaging, and filled with vast swathes of tedious dialogue between rather unlikeable and dispirited characters in lieu of action. Life is just too short for uninvolving books. less

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