01538nam a2200193   4500008004100000020001800041037004000059041001200099082001400111100001700125245001400142250000600156260002200162300000800184500105900192650001201251650004201263650003901305260714b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781784746179  cPurchasednMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor  aEnglish  aFbPOR/HO  aPortia Elan   aHOMEBOUND  a1  aUKbPenguinc2026  g291  a A work of joyous and serious invention KALIANE BRADLEY

Gripping... hauntingly beautiful MADELINE MILLER

A big, bold, ecstatic world--full of heart and wonder RUTH OZEKI

Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.

And the many paths that can lead us home.

Its 1983 and Becks cant wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.

What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.

Homebound is a coming-out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanitys future and capacity for love.  aFiction  aWomen computer programmers—Fiction.  aArtificial intelligence—Fiction.