Mysteries of Motion

Hortense Calisher''s excursion into science fiction: A rich portrait of the passengers aboard the first civilian space shuttleThe Citizen Courier is headed toward Island US, "the first public habitat in space." Aboard the ship resides a collection of diverse travelers. Narrator Tom Gilpin is a rich publisher, and he''s joined by fellow journalist Veronica, as well as an industrialist, a Jewish-Ger...