Science Fiction
Freehome
A Novel of the Future
Back of the book:
Home, Home on the Range...
As Hasley stared into the distance, movement caught his eye. He looked to his left, and saw a moving carpet of alien grass climbing up the slope beside him. More was coming up on his right.
He sighed. I hate this planet, he thought. When the grass got in the way of his gun, he swept at it, angrily. The grass swept back.
…Where the deer and the antelope play. Not on Freehome. More like the dreaded giant mosquito-like things known as “needle-nose” and the infamous “walking grass” that sneaks up and surrounds its victims.
Not only do the Rurals have Mother Nature to worry about on Freehome, they also have the city people to contend with. The Latecomers want to do away with the Rurals’ way of life. At any cost.
But the Rurals have faith...
My Review:
This book literally took me over six months to read. I just couldn’t get into it until the very end. It’s heavy in to politics. I don’t care for politics in real life, let alone in my fiction. If you like politics, though, you may enjoy this book very much.
I didn’t like one aspect of the writing style. It was very hard to tell when the story-teller’s point-of-view switched to a new person. There were no spaces or breaks to indicate that a different person was thinking than in the paragraph half a page up. I had to reread many pages because I was confused as to who was saying what. I also didn’t care for the fact that there seemed to be a good number of typos that could have easily been fixed before it went to print.
The overall story was well developed and very intricate. I wasn’t able to expect the outcome of any event and realized at the end how inter-connected every story line was. It was very elaborate and unique. Like I said earlier, you may like it if you enjoy political books. If not, the sci-fi/fantasy/faith aspects of it aren’t enough to draw in those kinds of readers, in my opinion.