Flight From BabylonChapter 6
On the evening of the twenty-first day out from Earth, I sat on the sofa in the pod’s main room, trying to watch a sappy romantic movie on the video display area. It was a black-and-white, 1950’s post-WW2 weeper about a returning GI (played by Van Heflin) who, haunted by memories of combat in the Pacific, had returned to an unfaithful wife (Barbra Stanwyck) and was followed by a Red Cross nurse (Lana Turner) who had fallen in love with him after he was wounded saving an orphanage. Ruth...