Home

By Kimberly Fuller

Book Overview

When Maran, an eighteen-year-old student, rescues a youngs pace traveler named Alik, he claims to have escaped a planet where one ace, the Frathi, waged a war of extinction on another, the Arakkans.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312861524
• ISBN13: 9780312861520
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.8" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Not for your average Trekker, so leave your communicators at home!

I read the other reviews and I just don't understand those who rated this book a 1 star rating. I have learned this rule from all the books I have read that if the book doesn't flow within the first 2 to 3 chapters you will probably have to wade through it, and I used to do just that but anymore I don't read them. From the first chapter this book really flowed and took me along with it...it was like the books I read when I was a kid where I couldn't put it down and would read 100 pages in one sitting. The story was moving and I was moved to tears (I'm a grown man w/wife + kids btw), the characters were better than the majority of crap scifi novels out there and the romance wasn't harlequin. The person who wrote that probably still lives with mom and dad and wanted a hard core scifi (like Fred Savage in Princess Bride "is this one of those Kissing books?"). I feel that the other person who reviewed her book with a 1 star on the day she died must have a black heart to do that. I cannot believe that a young girl wrote this book, it made me feel like I was rereading Frankenstein (also by a young girl). In fact I live not too far from where she lived and I didn't even know about her because I'm not originally from Oklahoma. I was so moved by her book that I wanted to look up what other books she had written (thinking that this was written in '97 that by now she has written a plethora of other great works)... then sadly my search was cut short when I came across her obituary. I have never ever written a review before but I think she deserves some recognition even if belatedly.

Captivating Plot In a New Science Fiction Novel

I would have to comment that Kimberly Fuller, a promising young author, has gifted the world with a new and stunning piece of literature for the Science Fiction readers of today. In "Home" the plot is captivating and keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting to know what happens next. I found myself reading into the night to finish this wonderful book. I would highly recommend this book to those who enjoy an exciting adventure of other worlds and times.

Stunning debut from a young authoress

Home is not a book easily described. When asked about it, I simply have to give one of those cheesy answers like "it's about human nature," because they are the only words than can compare. Unlike Science Fiction by many other modern authors, Ms. Fuller portrays a story built on the common ground of human experience rather than making a book about the wonders of science that only happens to have a plot. This book may seem small at first, but it is explosive and will open new thoughts as to what it means to be human. Her work is more reminiscent of Hemingway than Einstein, as all Sci-fi should have been-- as it was in the days of Herbert, Aasimov, and Clarke.