Edited by Mark and Priscilla Olson (1 results)
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Published by The Nesfa Press/SFBC, Framingham, MA, 1995
- Hardcover
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Science Fiction Book Club issue with the number code on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Otherwise essentially the same as the original published edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with wraparound cover art by Elizabeth Rhys Finney. A FRESH UNREAD COP…Y. "Henderson's People stories reached the peak of their popularity when they inspired the 1972 TV movie "The People", starring William Shatner. First composed in the 1950s and 1960s, the stories, including the previously unpublished "Michal Without," are here collected for the first time. For the uninitiated, the People are members of a race of humanlike, psychically gifted extraterrestrials who become stranded on Earth after their starship crashes during a space migration they refer to as the Crossing. Bound together by a series of vignettes about one human's encounter with the People, the 28 stories chronicle the People's adventures from the crash to their settlement in rural Arizona and their problems using their levitational and mind-reading skills in human society while seeking a new planet to replace the home they left behind. These tales may seem mawkish and dated by today's more sophisticated sf standards, yet they retain their raw emotional power thanks to Henderson's masterfully lucid prose. They will always occupy an important place in sf history for their treatment of parapsychological themes."--Booklist. Octavo. 577 pages. Includes The People Chronology at the rear of the book.
