The People live in a world of the gentlest sci fi there ever was and Zenna Henderson created it. She only wrote a few books about them but all were wonderful and one was made into a movie, "The People" starring William Shatner, Kim Darby, and others.
On Amazon: The People: No Different Flesh (1968)
There was an earlier book: Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1963)
There are others but those were the primaries and five stars for both of them due to the gentleness of everything about these stories. Humans are easily capable of living like this so long as we stop listening to those who tell us we can't.
The role of the quiet school teacher was played by Kim Darby who was heard to say, "Suck it, Russian actresses who think they're the hottest." (Ithaka: The Rockhouse Theme Has Sidetracked to Beautiful Russian Women)
Ed: did she really say that?
Unknown as she had her nefarious phase out in L.A. and she might have said just about anything with that amphetamine crap inside her. Some belt that soul-sucking rubbish really hard but it brings them doublequick to the resolution: I am never touching this horrendous crap ever again and they don't.
Note: one of our number did that as he was the Clifton Speed King when he was young but he stopped cold and wouldn't even take an aspirin after that. He's in his sixties now.
The People lost their home world due to some type of cataclysm and they came to Earth in the 1800s. They thought they could coexist with humans and even share their psychic powers to the benefit of all but you can likely imagine what happened to anyone in the 1800s with psychic powers. Many were killed so The People went underground and were absolutely forbidden from ever using their powers again lest they be discovered by people who will hurt them.
Valancy was one of the young malcontents who thought the rules were too restrictive and she wanted them relaxed for her generation.
This is sci fi the Buck Rogers / Marvel Comics kids will hate since there are no ray guns, spaceships, nor exploding planets. The best sci fi always presents metaphors in Sociology and the ray guns are only important if you need to sell popcorn at an obscene markup.
There are analogies all over the place in the current world and we have seen xenophobia rising to levels most of us have never seen previously. That's exactly the same thing was wiping out The People in the 1800s; they were not threat as they were just different. It might have freaked people out just a little that they could fly.
Ed: without a spaceship?
Yep
Ed: oh, sure. That's going to freak people out.
Freaking them out shouldn't translate into killing them but that problem was no different then than it is now and that's why sci fi.
On Amazon: The People: No Different Flesh (1968)
There was an earlier book: Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1963)
There are others but those were the primaries and five stars for both of them due to the gentleness of everything about these stories. Humans are easily capable of living like this so long as we stop listening to those who tell us we can't.
The role of the quiet school teacher was played by Kim Darby who was heard to say, "Suck it, Russian actresses who think they're the hottest." (Ithaka: The Rockhouse Theme Has Sidetracked to Beautiful Russian Women)
Ed: did she really say that?
Unknown as she had her nefarious phase out in L.A. and she might have said just about anything with that amphetamine crap inside her. Some belt that soul-sucking rubbish really hard but it brings them doublequick to the resolution: I am never touching this horrendous crap ever again and they don't.
Note: one of our number did that as he was the Clifton Speed King when he was young but he stopped cold and wouldn't even take an aspirin after that. He's in his sixties now.
The People lost their home world due to some type of cataclysm and they came to Earth in the 1800s. They thought they could coexist with humans and even share their psychic powers to the benefit of all but you can likely imagine what happened to anyone in the 1800s with psychic powers. Many were killed so The People went underground and were absolutely forbidden from ever using their powers again lest they be discovered by people who will hurt them.
Valancy was one of the young malcontents who thought the rules were too restrictive and she wanted them relaxed for her generation.
This is sci fi the Buck Rogers / Marvel Comics kids will hate since there are no ray guns, spaceships, nor exploding planets. The best sci fi always presents metaphors in Sociology and the ray guns are only important if you need to sell popcorn at an obscene markup.
There are analogies all over the place in the current world and we have seen xenophobia rising to levels most of us have never seen previously. That's exactly the same thing was wiping out The People in the 1800s; they were not threat as they were just different. It might have freaked people out just a little that they could fly.
Ed: without a spaceship?
Yep
Ed: oh, sure. That's going to freak people out.
Freaking them out shouldn't translate into killing them but that problem was no different then than it is now and that's why sci fi.
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