Pilgrimage the First Book of the People

by Zenna Henderson

Paperback, 1963

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Avon Books (Mm) (1963), Paperback

Description

These are the People.Marooned on this planet by the crash of their interstellar vehicle in the distant past, the People are never free of a sense of strangeness in this world and a yearning for the home they have half forgotten.These are the chronicles of their arrival on this world, their estrangement from it, and their ultimate acceptance of their poignant exile. "Pilgrimage "is one of the most unforgettable works in all of science fiction.The stories included in this book are Ararat Gilead Pottage Wilderness Captivity Jordan "

User reviews

LibraryThing member juniperSun

I read this as a teen, long ago from the library, and for years hunted to get my own copy. I remember being so enthralled with the idea that there might be aliens -right here!- living among us as regular people, albeit a bit different. I wanted to be a bit different myself.

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LibraryThing member Steve_Walker

This is a SF novel that breaks your heart. Stranded on Earth, due to the crash of their interstellar spacecraft, a race of aliens attempts to survive on an alien world and among an alien people who can't begin to understand who, or what, they are. It is a book that tells very well what it means to

be far from home with no possible way of rescue.

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LibraryThing member workgman

my mother was right, you have to read zenna henderson's stories.

LibraryThing member madcatwoman

The first SF book I ever bought (on holiday in Menorca, 1969). I found it completely entrancing, as did my mum (who says that she doesn't even like SF). "Plaiting your twishers" made it into the family vocabulary, although for us it eventually came to mean someone getting a bit over-anxious.

LibraryThing member DeputyHeadmistress

Upbeat, positive, uplifting science fiction stories. The People move to earth because their own world is to be destroyed. They must learn to adjust to their new lives in a new world where people are estranged from The Presence as they are not. These are stories of faith, of optimism, even in the

midst of sorrow.
Each chapter stands alone, but there are connections as well. Lovely book.

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LibraryThing member barbgarcia1987

I have loved the stories of The People since the late 1960s when I first started reading science fiction. Our public library in Sunnyvale, CA had a large number of science fiction books. I did not find out until much later how unusual that was. After getting hooked on Star Trek I went there looking

for books and found the various Best Of books. Quickly found Zenna Henderson's People stories and then started looking for them. I continue to re-read them from time to time. Still love them.

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LibraryThing member PMaranci

Alien children with magic/psionic powers are refugees on modern Earth. A large collection of short stories which were also collected in a couple of smaller volume. It gets extremely saccharine and cloying after a while, but is memorable nonetheless.

LibraryThing member JohnFair

When I first read this book (and its follow on book 'No Different Flesh'), I felt that they were rather sweet and rather old fashioned even allowing for the fact that most of the stories making up the books were written in the early to mid fifties. However, they are in some ways very modern (teens

are often 'twoing' in ways that aren't going down the mall for the afternoon), though with a a very conservative social outlook and fashions - most of the women in these stories wouldn't be seen dead in slack for example even if such an item of clothing would be more sensible in a People where levitation is a normal part of life.. As presentyed here, this book is a fix up with the stories being presented to throuh the ears of Lea, a lady who's nearly dead sense of wonder was about to receive a massive jolt. All in all, I was quite impressed how well these stories read.

As a point of note, one of these stories was made into a nade-for-TV type movie that was as sweet and gooey as you may want...

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LibraryThing member electrascaife

The People are aliens who fled their home planet and crash landed in various spots on Earth. They're living amongst humans, trying to blend in and also to find each other, all while feeling like outsiders and missing their home. The book is set out as a series of short stories about various members

of The People, and it's very Escape to Witch Mountain both in story and in style. Except that I kind of love Escape to Witch Mountain, but I really couldn't get into this one at all. Partly I think it's the dated scifi style, partly it's that I always have trouble with the short-story collection format, and partly because the writing just didn't click for me.

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