"Homestay"

Title"Homestay"
Year for Search2005
AuthorsJones, Tim(b. 1959)
Secondary TitleStrange Horizons
Date PublishedJanuary 31, 2005
KeywordsAotearoa New Zealand author, Male author
Annotation

The story contrasts two eutopias or dystopias with the reader left to decide which. The point of view character normally lives in electronic form in a satellite above an earth that has lost all artificial power sources. He has taken on a physical body to visit earth. Both places are presented positively.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Transported: Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2008), 125-37.

URLhttp://www.strangehorizons.com
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (b. 1959) was born in England and brought to Aotearoa/New Zealand at age two.

Full Text

2005 Jones, Tim (b. 1959). “Homestay.” Strange Horizons (January 31, 2005). http://www.strangehorizons.com. Rpt. in his Transported: Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2008), 125-37. PSt

The story contrasts two eutopias or dystopias with the reader left to decide which. The point of view character normally lives in electronic form in a satellite above an earth that has lost all artificial power sources. He has taken on a physical body to visit earth. Both places are presented positively. The author was born in England and brought to Aotearoa/New Zealand at age two.