Homebound : a novel / Portia Elan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elan, Portia, author.

Series:

Good morning America book club

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Video games--Fiction.

Video games.

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Robots--Fiction.

Robots.

Space and time--Fiction.

Space and time.

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Historical fiction.

Queer fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

291 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Scribner Canada edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Scribner Canada, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2026.

Summary:

Cincinnati, 1983. Becks is nineteen, blasting her Walkman and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle is dead. When she discovers the unfinished computer game he left behind, she pours her grief and anger into finishing it: one last collaboration to guide her out of loneliness. Berkeley, 2078. Dr. Tamar Portman is a brilliant scientist wrestling with her responsibility to humanity's precarious future--and to her mysterious creation. But when a project takes her out of academia and into the private sector, the ambitions of powerful people put everything at risk. The Atlantic, 2586. A jaded sea captain, Yesiko, will do whatever it takes to keep Babylon afloat and her fragile crew alive. Until she encounters the one compromise even she may be unwilling to make. And somewhere along the way, there is Chaya: a four-hundred-year-old automaton collecting stories and mining their own memories in a determined search for another life themself. All are bound together by a quest for community--and by a futuristic traveler on a solo mission through space. Front book flap.

ISBN:

9781668201732

1668201739

OCLC:

1546085669