Resnick, Mike: Homecoming

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[stfg]

It did not do much for me either. I enjoyed reading it, but I agree that it did not particularly touch me.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I worried a bit that I might just be heartless.

[jimhines]

You're not the only one, as you saw in my review.

I agree that there were a lot of nifty ideas in here, but the story itself felt, in some respects, a bit by-the-numbers. You mention struggling to understand the father's motivation, and I agree. It felt like the father's intolerance came first from the fact that he needed to be intolerant for the story to work, just like at the end he needed to come around in order for the ending to work. As opposed to those emotions feeling genuine and logical from the character.

Like you said, not a bad story, and I suspect I'm a little harsher given that I read it along with the other Hugo nominees, so it suffers by comparison.

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Interesting point, reading it in comparison to the other nominees. Maybe it really stood out otherwise, and/or maybe the flaws of the story really stick out when its compared to far better stories. :)

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I think I would have liked to see this from the son's point of view better. That he could learn to understand life forms so radically different from human but not his father.

That is an awesome idea. :)