Devon had enough vacation and decided to come home.
Humanity has outrun death. Minds slip from body to body — and gender to gender — at will: a man at dawn, a woman by dusk, or no face at all, dissolved into the shared consciousness of the Inside. Nobody owns a body. Nobody stays. Nobody dies.
Jasper is a part-time starship pilot on REACH OUT, humanity's reach for a new world. Devon is the person she loves in every shape he wears.
Then Devon finds the one body his mind was born in — and makes the choice no one makes anymore. To keep it. To be a single person. To grow old, and to end. What that costs, and what it's worth, is what Jasper is left holding — with a child conceived the old way and a duty she no longer wants.
Coming Home Again is a quietly radical meditation on identity, autonomy, gender fluidity, and the strange freedom of being mortal.
Neyland was born in Iceland and loves to travel. Some of his best friends were dachshunds, better known as wiener dogs - the original badger hounds.