Mysteries of Motion

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480438996

<DIV><b>Hortense Calisher&rsquo;s excursion into science fiction: A rich portrait of the passengers aboard the first civilian space shuttle </b></div><DIV></div><DIV><BR>The <i>Citizen Courier</i> is headed toward Island US, &ldquo;the first public habitat in space.&rdquo; Aboard the ship resides a collection of diverse travelers. Narrator Tom Gilpin is a rich publisher, and he&rsquo;s joined by fellow journalist Veronica, as well as an industrialist, a Jewish-German expatriate philosopher, a diplomat and his wife, and the teenage son of a NASA admiral.</div><DIV>&#160;</div>Revealing a complex, nonlinear narrative for each of its characters, the iridescent literary sci-fi of <i>Mysteries of Motion </i>captures lives and relationships as labyrinthine as the space vessel that carries them, channeling intergalactic, philosophical, and psychological voyages.&#160;&#160;