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    Homesick
    Homesick
    Homesick
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    Homesick

    By Ed Emshwiller and Lyn Venable

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Homesick - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Homesick, by Lyn Venable

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Homesick

      Author: Lyn Venable

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29599]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOMESICK ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Homesick

      By LYN VENABLE

      Illustrated by EMSH

      What thrill is there in going out among the stars if coming back means bitter loneliness?

      Frankston pushed listlessly at a red checker with his right forefinger. He knew the move would cost him a man, but he lacked enough interest in the game to plot out a safe move. His opponent, James, jumped the red disk with a black king and removed it from the board. Gregory, across the room, flicked rapidly through the pages of a magazine, too rapidly to be reading anything, or even looking at the pictures. Ross lay quietly on his bunk, staring out of the viewport.

      The four were strangely alike in appearance, nearly the same age, the age where gray hairs finally outnumber black, or baldness takes over. The age when the expanding waistline has begun to sag tiredly, when robust middle age begins the slow accelerating decline toward senility.

      A strange group to find aboard a spaceship, but then The

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