Search Worlds Without End

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1958. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eighth Series (1959), edited by Anthony Boucher. It is included in the collections Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) and Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson (1995).

Zenna Henderson is best remembered for her stories of the People which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 50s to the middle 70s. The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human in appearance, they possessed many extraordinary powers. Henderson’s People stories tell of their struggles to fit in and to live their lives as ordinary people, unmolested by fearful and ignorant neighbors. The People are “us at our best, as we hope to be, and where (with work and with luck) we may be in some future.”

Ingathering contains all seventeen of the People stories, including one, “Michal Without,” which has never before been published.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Ingathering: The Complete People Stories) - (1995) - essay by Priscilla Olson
• 1 - Lea 1 - [The People - 1] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of I (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 13 - Ararat - [The People] - (1952) - novelette
• 33 - Lea 2 - [The People - 2] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of II (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 39 - Gilead - [The People] - (1954) - novelette
• 65 - Lea 3 - [The People - 3] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of III (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 67 - Pottage - [The People] - (1955) - novelette
• 97 - Lea 4 - [The People - 4] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of IV (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 103 - Wilderness - [The People] - (1957) - novelette
• 137 - Lea 5 - [The People - 5] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of V (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 141 - Captivity - [The People] - (1958) - novella
• 181 - Lea 6 - [The People - 6] - (1961) - short fiction (variant of VI (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People))
• 191 - Jordan - [The People] - (1959) - novelette
• 217 - No Different Flesh - [The People] - (1965) - novelette
• 249 - Mark & Meris 1 - [The People] - (1995) - short fiction
• 253 - Deluge - [The People] - (1963) - novelette
• 283 - Mark & Meris 2 - [The People] - (1995) - short fiction
• 287 - Angels Unawares - [The People] - (1966) - novelette
• 319 - Mark & Meris 3 - [The People] - (1995) - short fiction
• 321 - Troubling of the Water - [The People] - (1966) - novelette
• 351 - Mark & Meris 4 - [The People] - (1995) - short fiction
• 353 - Return - [The People] - (1961) - novelette
• 385 - Mark & Meris 5 - [The People] - (1995) - short fiction
• 387 - Shadow on the Moon - [The People] - (1962) - novelette
• 423 - Tell Us a Story - [The People] - (1980) - novella
• 461 - That Boy - [The People] - (1971) - novelette
• 497 - Michal Without - [The People] - (1995) - novelette
• 525 - The Indelible Kind - [The People] - (1968) - novelette
• 555 - Katie-Mary's Trip - [The People] - (1975) - short story
• 569 - The People Series - (1980) - essay
• 573 - Chronology of the People Stories - (1995) - essay by Mark L. Olson and Priscilla Olson

They were feared as witches and demons...

They possessed superhuman powers...

They could read minds, free objects from gravity, fly through the air...

They lived alone and outcast in an isolated canyon...

They were THE PEOPLE!

Table of Contents:

• [vi] - Introduction (The People Collection) - essay by Anne McCaffrey
• 1 - Pilgrimage - [The People] - (1967) - novel (variant of Pilgrimage: The Book of the People 1961)
• 265 - The People: No Different Flesh - [The People] - (1966) - collection
• 267 - No Different Flesh - [The People] - (1965) - novelette
• 311 - Deluge - [The People] - (1963) - novelette
• 351 - Angels Unawares - [The People] - (1966) - novelette
• 391 - Troubling of the Water - [The People] - (1966) - novelette
• 430 - Return - [The People] - (1961) - novelette
• 472 - Shadow on the Moon - [The People] - (1962) - novelette
• 519 - The Indelible Kind - [The People] - (1968) - novelette
• 557 - Incident After - [The People] - (1971) - short story
• 567 - The Walls - [The People] - (1971) - short story
• 579 - Katie-Mary's Trip - [The People] - (1975) - short story

Table of Contents:

• No Different Flesh - (1965)
• Deluge - (1963)
• Angels Unawares - (1966)
• Troubling of the Water - (1966)
• Return - (1961)
• Shadow on the Moon - (1962)