The Statue
Unknown
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Description
Mari Wolf's tale, printed in IF Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1953, follows Lewis and Martha, an old couple living in a glassed-in Martian home. Night after night they stay up to watch Earth rise as a clear bright star above the desert horizon, the Morning Star before dawn. Martha, shawl drawn about her knees, trembles with emotion, tiredness, and age as she watches.
Martha tells Lewis she wants to go home, and Lewis knows, after seventy years together, what she means. Earth to them is not a point of light but continents and oceans, a place of memory. Wolf asks where home can be in a universe that keeps changing, and what a lifetime of shared watching means when the watched world grows distant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |