Zenna Henderson

Entre 1961 y 1971 Zenna Henderson publicó la serie de El Pueblo, un conjunto de relatos llenos de lirismo, que refieren el devenir de un grupo de extraterrestres, especialmente bondadosos, llegados a la Tierra tras el paso de su nuevo sol. Seres dotados de una moral claramente superior, de poderes concebidos para ejercer el bien, y que serán perseguidos por unos humanos no tan inclinados a la bondad...

Aquellos que han conocido antes los libros de Zenna Henderson, saben que el Pueblo es completamente inolvidable y tan extraordinario como la habilidad de la autora en proyectar un mundo fantástico en un delicado marco realista... Zenna Henderson cuenta sus historias con una magia gentil y tierna. Tiene el don del amor, y su enorme talento consiste en transferir ese don a la pagina impresa. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.

Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearing aliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth, where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in 1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like the stories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the same underlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future. These stories have a common theme belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads them home; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy believes he can build a noise-eating machine with fatal results. Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson contains every non-People story, all long out of print. Thirty-three of the stories in this volume are from her collections, The Anything Box and Holding Wonder. The remaining five stories and three poems were previously published in other magazines and anthologies. Welcome to Zenna Hendersons world.

The PeopleZenna Henderson is best remembered for her stories of the People which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the middle 1970s. The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human in appearance, they possessed many extraordinary powers. Hendersons People stories tell of their struggles to fit in and to live their lives as ordinary people, unmolested by fearful and ignorant neighbors. The People are "us at our best, as we hope to be, and where (with work and with luck) we may be in some future."Ingathering contains all seventeen of the People stories, including one, "Michal Without," which has never before been published.