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Zenna Henderson's "The People" [message #118756] Tue, 24 September 2013 14:33
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Originally posted by: @RUTGERS.ARPA:mab@aids-unix
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From: mab@aids-unix (Mike Brzustowicz)

I remember the made-for-TV movie "The People".  It was supposed to be a
pilot for a new series.  Unfortunately, it was a very poor adaptation, sort
of a revue.  The writers took several of the short stories and attempted to
make one story out of them.  The concepts that Zenna Henderson portrays well
were, in the movie, lost on anyone who had not read the books.  (I remember,
in particular the concepts of Remembering [racial memory] and Old Ones
[The leaders, based on Psi ability] being botched to the point of seeming
silly even to ZH fans.)  

[For ZH fans who have not seen the movie--they attempted to combine the
group at Bendo with the larger Group by Baldie--they captured much of the
down side of Bendo, but none of the light and magic of the other Group.	]

I recommend the two books about the people-- "Pilgrimage" and "The
People--No Different Flesh".  There was also a short story in "Holding
Wonder" which might have been a People story--it's been so long since I've
read it, but it read to me then (>10 yrs ago) as a possibility for "The
Bright Beginning"--the start of the People's racial memory.

Aside from these three books, and a fourth, called "The Anything Box"
(All of which are short story collections, the first two having a
"Meta-story" woven around them [in the fashion of Susan Calvin narration in
"i robot"]), I don't know of any other books by her.  Has anyone else heard
of any?

-Mike Brzustowicz

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