[Note: This was Lee""s first and sole novel - and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.] The poor Southern town of deteriorating homes was authentically re-created on a Universal Studios"" set.Plot SynopsisThe film opens in Army Headquarters in India, where it was stated that the British were protecting 300 million people along India""s troubled northern boundary, notably the Bengal Lancers...a sensor-transceiver combination recording everything we say and do"; according to the robot, the human crew member Ilia no longer functioned (or was killed), and V""Ger was traveling to Earth ("the third planet of the solar system directly ahead") "to find the creator, to join with him.With Jonathan""s help in distracting Anck-su-namun by challenging her to a fight, Alex was able to steal the Book of the Dead, and began reciting ritualistic incantations over the corpse of his dead mother.