#zennahenderson

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Zenna Henderson Set of 4 Books with covers by Hector Garrido Avon Books $23 Holding Wonder (1979) Cover: Unknown The Anything Box (1980) Cover: Hector Garrido The People: No Different Flesh (1980) Cover: Hector Garrido Pilgrimage: The Book Of The People (1970)Cover: Hector Garrido . This is a collection I've put together of highly-desirable books by Zenna Henderson, and would be great gift to pass down to a young adult reader. Publishing her "People" stories in the leading science fiction magazines of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Henderson became a pioneer in many areas of science fiction literature. She was one of the first female science fiction writers, and was one of an even smaller number who wrote openly as a woman, without using male-sounding pseudonyms or initials and was one of the first in science fiction to truly take young people seriously and write expressive, mature stories from their point of view. . Overall Great And Clean Condition With Pilgrimage Being The Exception . . . #holdingwonder #theanythingbox #thepeoplenodifferentflesh #pilgrimagethebookofthepeople #zennahenderson #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzqVUQARdo/?igshid=xln832c54fbq

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson $5 Avon Books (1967) Four short stories linked by a narrative. A group of people, refugees, survivors, etc., have crashed in the mountains of California and made a life there. These people, though human in appearance, are telepaths, telekinetics, and other various psychic gifts. They suppress these gifts and live in isolated valleys so that they do not come under the condemnation of their more mundane neighbors in California. Cover art by Hector Garrido. . Overall Good Condition, Good Spine With Some Wear, Binding Tight, Pages Look Good, Sticker On Top-Right Of Front Cover . . . #pilgrimage #zennahenderson #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CCi3lvPgfo1/?igshid=133exl5vp0fe5

[houl]

Books I’ve Read in 2018 #2 ‘Holding Wonder’ by Zenna Henderson. I first came across Zenna Henderson in a post by @illustro_obscurum a year or so ago and have only managed to track down one of her short story collections, that being Holding Wonder. The ideas she shares in these old and yellowed pages are incredible, and while some feel a little stilted with characters too easy to accept and believe the unbelievable, her actual writing is incredible with some hugely poignant paragraphs hiding in her work. There is some definite gold in there, with the shorts ‘The Believing Child’, ‘The Walls’ and ‘You Know What, Teacher?’ being standouts for me. Henderson was a Primary School teacher before writing and she draws on this effectively. Her work wouldn’t be amiss nestled between Bradbury and Gaiman. An easy read and well worth it. #zennahenderson #holdingwonder #booksivereadin2018 #houlart #houl

[ferm-germ]

See that tree out there? simplicity says--a tree. Then wonder sets in and you begin to analyze it--cells, growth, structure, leaves, photosynthesis, roots, bark, rings--on and on until the tree is a mass of complications. Then, finally, with reservations not quite to be removed, you can put it back together again and sigh in simplicity once more--a tree.

Zenna Henderson

[crossroadsalpha]

Not too long ago, I lambasted the September 1959 issue of Astounding as the worst science fiction magazine I’d read in a long while. This is not to say that it’s the worst of the bunch—I’m sure there are plenty of issues of B and C-level mags that constitute the nadir of written science fiction, although I don’t imagine there are too many of those publications still around. I’m happy to report that this month’s Fantasy and Science Fiction may well be the best single issue I’ve ever read.