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No Place Like Home
2016
First Published
4.27
Average Rating
70
Number of Pages
The alien Umlari sent out a thousand starships in search of resources and to find, if they can, their long-lost home world. Walkers like Drewe are trained to use a custom-grown body to explore each new world. If she and her crechemates find the one where the Umlari first evolved, it will be the greatest discovery of their time. Or will it? For a terrible secret binds their lives together, and learning the truth may mean the end of all. First published in Forbidden Planets ed by Marvin Kaye (SFBC), this stunning science fiction novella received Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’ Year’s Best SF.
Avg Rating
4.27
Number of Ratings
51
5 STARS
47%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
20%
2 STARS
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Author

Julie E. Czerneda
Julie E. Czerneda
Author · 36 books
Having written 23 novels (and counting) published by DAW Books, as well as numerous short stories, and editing several anthologies over the past 25 years, Julie E. Czerneda was inducted in the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2022. Her science fiction and fantasy combines her training and love of biology with a boundless curiosity and optimism, winning multiple awards. Julie's recent releases include the standalone novel To Each This World and her first collection Imaginings. Out Spring 2024 is A Change of Place, next in her Night's Edge fantasy series. For more visit czerneda.com Julie is represented by Sara Megibow of KT Literary.
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