Homesick
Lyn Venable
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Description
Lyn Venable's short tale opens with four spacemen strangely alike in looks and age, the age when gray hairs outnumber black or baldness takes over. Frankston pushes a red checker listlessly, knowing the move will cost him a man. Gregory flicks through a magazine too fast to read, and Ross lies on his bunk staring out the viewport. The tag line asks what joy space travel holds if the return brings only bitter loneliness.
Venable's tale is about spacemen who have seen the stars and found the return harder than the voyage. Home, not distance, is the tale's true frontier. Fans of humane science fiction will enjoy a quiet, sad story about age, comradeship, and the ache of home.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lyn Venable |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |