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Lädt ... Wo ist unsere Welt? (1961)von Zenna Henderson, Heinz Bingenheimer (Übersetzer), Eyke Volkmer (Umschlagillustration)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 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. 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. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheThe People (Collection 1-6) Gehört zu VerlagsreihenGoldmann SF (025) Urania [Mondadori] (Classici, 198) Ist enthalten inBeinhaltet
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 " Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden.
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***** Re-read *****
My impression on the re-read is much the same. The best story is the one where a human woman called Dita (a teacher of course) is staying in a boarding house and gradually kindles a romance with a man who turns out to be one of the People who lost his parents when young and doesn't know how to find the settlement where most of them live. Dita herself is a misfit because she is a rare human who was born with psychic powers, although these differ from those of the People. That story was quite nicely prickly and natural in the development of the relationship and in the interaction with the curmudgeonly landlady of the boarding house.
The last story is confusing because it deals with People coming to Earth from another planet where they settled, to take away anyone who wants to go back with them - the framing structure is lost at that point because it seems the viewpoint character is departing on a spaceship at the end as if that has already happened rather than being impending. So the story of Lea is lost at that point. I think on balance the 'OK' 2 star rating stands. ( )