“Home™”

Title“Home™”
Year for Search2022
AuthorsSmuts, Eckard
Secondary TitleThe Johannesburg Review of Books
Volume / Edition6.2
Date PublishedMay 2022
KeywordsMale author, South African author
Annotation

The story is set during travel to a trademarked home in space designed to cater to the wealthy. One of the passengers leaving Earth reflects on the conditions there. Earth is effectively controlled by the same corporation that built Home™ and violently suppresses any protests.

URLhttps://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/new-short-fiction-home-by-eckard-smuts/
Author Note

The South African author is a postdoctoral research fellow in English at the University of the Western Cape.

Full Text

2022 Smuts, Eckard. “Home™.” The Johannesburg Review of Books 6.2 (May 2022) https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/new-short-fiction-home-by-eckard-smuts/

The story is set during travel to a trademarked home in space designed to cater to the wealthy. One of the passengers leaving Earth reflects on the conditions there. Earth is effectively controlled by the same corporation that built Home™ and violently suppresses any protests. The South African author is a postdoctoral research fellow in English at the University of the Western Cape.