Project Gutenberg 2009-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 82 Venable, Lyn Venable, Marilyn Venable, Lynn A. Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH Homesick Reading ease score: 84.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Homesick" by Lyn Venable is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story is set in a spaceship called The Columbus, which has returned to Earth after a thirty-year journey in space. The narrative explores the themes of alienation, nostalgia, and the unexpected consequences of long-term space travel, particularly how the characters struggle to reintegrate into a world that has fundamentally changed while they were away. The story revolves around four men—Frankston, Gregory, James, and Ross—who have become allergic to Earth’s environment after decades of living in a sterile spaceship. Each of them copes with their predicament in different ways; Ross tends to his geraniums outside the ship, an act that symbolizes his yearning for normalcy and connection to Earth. While Gregory relives memories of arriving back home, Frankston expresses deep bitterness about their situation, feeling stifled and trapped. The harsh reality that their bodies have adapted to a synthetic existence renders them incapable of thriving on the very planet they longed to return to. The characters navigate this emotionally charged landscape, grappling with their past, future, and the dawning realization that they are now, ironically, aliens in their own world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Science Fiction by Women Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 41078 41085 2024-10-12T16:22:46.314217 2023-09-13T07:09:13.618129 text/html text/html 37002 2009-08-03T13:36:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 119905 2009-08-03T13:36:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 183479 2024-10-12T16:22:50.721193 application/epub+zip 181920 2024-10-12T16:22:48.097266 application/epub+zip 75783 2024-10-12T16:22:46.903209 application/epub+zip 266241 2024-10-12T16:22:52.476221 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 258260 2024-10-12T16:22:49.811243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 98925 2022-09-13T16:10:41.871895 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34456 34356 2024-10-12T16:22:46.051215 2023-09-13T07:09:13.441144 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34354 2009-08-03T13:36:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13304 2009-08-03T13:36:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20699 2024-10-12T16:22:52.608179 application/rdf+xml 8260 2024-10-12T16:22:47.443222 image/jpeg 2397 2024-10-12T16:22:47.163221 image/jpeg 179966 2024-10-12T16:22:46.327202 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia