Name: Home Is a Long, Long Way
Author: Hillyer Ives
ISBN: 9781414009063

Published:

Nov-2003
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Science Fiction
Pages:

468
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It has been stated many times that Home is where the heart is In this fresh stirring novel Hillyer Ives translates that to also mean where the excitement is or perhaps where there is more responsibility than I care for Thomas Marshe is a little known man in Lubbock Texas a busy man with a new job settling in a new apartment and occasionally dating his only friend Jean But at a symphony concert Thomas is suddenly bothered by two young teens who insist on calling him Kazim They tell him his dying mother wishes to see him that his ship is orbiting high above the city at seven kils Convinced the two are pulling off a hoax or simply have the wrong person Thomas dismisses the whole thing until he discovers very surprisingly he can speak in an unusual language Things grow steadily worse and more frightening after that until it reaches the point where his very life is threatened Who is he Thomas Marshe or this Kazim character He would swear without hesitation he was Thomas Wasn t he