Zenna Henderson (1917–1983)
Author of Pilgrimage
About the Author
Series
Works by Zenna Henderson
Something Bright [short story] 8 copies
The Anything Box [short story] 6 copies
Come On, Wagon! [short story] 6 copies
As Simple as That 4 copies
Food to All Flesh [short fiction] 3 copies
Things [short story] 3 copies
The Indelible Kind 2 copies
Mark & Meris 1 2 copies
Mark & Meris 2 2 copies
Mark & Meris 3 2 copies
Mark & Meris 4 2 copies
Mark & Meris 5 2 copies
Lea 3 2 copies
The Grunder [short story] 2 copies
Hush! [short story] 2 copies
The Substitute [short story] 2 copies
Walking Aunt Daid [short story] 2 copies
Turn the Page [short story] 2 copies
Stevie and the Dark [short story] 2 copies
And a Little Child— [short story] 2 copies
The Last Step [short story] 2 copies
Shadow on the Moon 1 copy
One of Them [short story] 1 copy
Crowning Glory [short story] 1 copy
The Walls [short story] 1 copy
Incident After [short story] 1 copy
Ad Astra [short story] 1 copy
Sharing Time [short story] 1 copy
Loo Ree [short story] 1 copy
The Effectives [short story] 1 copy
Katie-mary’s Trip 1 copy
Michal Without 1 copy
That Boy 1 copy
Associated Works
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 316 copies
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library… (2018) — Contributor — 233 copies
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (1995) — Contributor — 179 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966) — Contributor, some editions — 79 copies
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume (1957) — Contributor — 67 copies
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 3rd Annual Volume (1958) — Contributor — 62 copies
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Contributor — 62 copies
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contributor, some editions — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1957, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1957) — Contributor — 9 copies
SFの評論大全集 (別冊奇想天外 4) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Henderson, Zenna Chlarson
- Birthdate
- 1917-11-01
- Date of death
- 1983-05-11
- Burial location
- St. David Cemetery, St. David, Arizona
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Place of death
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Places of residence
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Education
- Arizona State College
- Occupations
- teacher
science fiction writer - Organizations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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- Works
- 72
- Also by
- 58
- Members
- 3,024
- Popularity
- #8,448
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 51
- ISBNs
- 32
- Languages
- 3
- Favorited
- 30
Although some of the description is vivid, I find it unconvincing in places because some of the stories are actually the recollections of humans who encounter individuals of the People, not the People (who have race memory recall) themselves, and I find it hard to picture how they can have word by word recall of what human beings felt, especially as those narratives start before they encounter one of the People.
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Re-read
My review above stands. I would only add that in one of the later stories, the woman of the People narrating the story is an absolute brat, possibly the author's reaction to the general perception that the People are all absolute paragons of virtue in the majority of stories in this and its predecessor, 'Pilgrimage'. And even so, I didn't really buy the Jemmy character, met in several tales before, stranding a heavily pregnant woman in a flood.
The other point I would make is to add a trigger warning regarding infant mortality because that is a major plot point in two of the stories. As before, my rating is an OK 2 stars.… (more)