Educating the Human

What happens when the last man rescued from the dying planet Earth is adopted by a family on another planet -- and one of the family members is a xenophobic fungus who hates him at first sight? "First of all," K'ton would tell you, "I am not a giant fungus."K'ton is a "living house", a gigantic sentient being able to morph himself to create a comfortable, desirable home for the Tirzans who live within his walls. He is also very much a part of the family, and over fifteen generations of...
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What happens when the last man rescued from the dying planet Earth is adopted by a family on another planet -- and one of the family members is a xenophobic fungus who hates him at first sight? "First of all," K'ton would tell you, "I am not a giant fungus."K'ton is a "living house", a gigantic sentient being able to morph himself to create a comfortable, desirable home for the Tirzans who live within his walls. He is also very much a part of the family, and over fifteen generations of watching over the Family K'ton, he has developed definite opinions about who and what constitutes an acceptable family group. When he learns that the newest Family member is not only an outworlder but one of those disgusting humans, K'ton doesn't hesitate to make his opinions known. However, the rest of the family disagree with him. He is unwillingly forced into helping the injured and frightened human learn to live in a strange new environment and in the process has to rethink his ideas on compassion, friendship, and what really constitutes a family. "Educating the Human" is interplanetary fantasy at its best. "Honestly beautiful and beyond well-written," commented one reader.