November 2005: The Luggage Store Summary

The proprietor of a luggage store on Mars has just heard the news that Earth is going to war. Father Peregrine, a local who has come in to chat, discusses the war in China when he was a boy and how, like the current war on Earth, the fighting seemed almost unreal, because it was so far away. The pair of men suppose that the hundred thousand individuals due to arrive on Mars in the coming weeks will not come, and that those living on Mars will return home. The proprietor believes that those on Mars have not been on planet long enough to have stopped considering Earth as home. As he is leaving, Father Peregrine purchases a new valise.

November 2005: The Luggage Store Analysis

This short chapter is again a pivotal point in the novel. As...