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Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange.
A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she
is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty
before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in
distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time
on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service,
still a young woman but not necessarily the same person.while Skip is in his forties
and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return.

Still in love (somewhat to his surprise and delight), they go on a Caribbean cruise
to resume their marriage. Their vacation rapidly becomes a complex series of
challenges, not the least of which are spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who
capture the ship for ransom. There is no writer in SF like Gene Wolfe and no SF novel
like Home Fires.

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