Home Fires (2011) Signed First Edition Reference

Home Fires combines a murder mystery on a cruise ship with science fiction concepts of relativistic time dilation. Published in 2011, the novel follows a woman who returns from interstellar war to find that decades have passed on Earth and her fiancé has aged while she has not. The cruise ship setting provides a contained environment for Wolfe’s characteristic narrative games.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Tor Books, New York Publication date: 2011 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $30–$75
• Unsigned first edition: $5–$10

A late-career Wolfe novel that is more accessible than some of his other work while still containing the layered storytelling that defines his fiction.