Series
The People
Zenna Henderson · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 14 novelettes · 14 short stories · 2 collections · 1952–1995
The People follows a group of telepathic, gifted humanoids who crash-landed in the American frontier generations ago and now live quietly scattered among ordinary humans, hiding their abilities while raising children who must learn to control powers that frighten their neighbors. Zenna Henderson told their story mostly through linked short fiction, gathered into the fix-up novels Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh and later omnibus collections. It's less a plotted series than a mosaic of related stories about faith, belonging, and exile.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The People at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s6
- 1960s15
- 1970s4
- 1980s1
- 1990s7
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 14 novelettes · 14 short stories · 2 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensnorth americamid 20th centuryhopefuladult
Mood
Bright and calm: 41% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 6%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book27 of 33 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Captivitydarkest · calmest
- Angels Unawaresbrightest
- That Boymost intense