@RUTGERS.ARPA:mab@aids-unix (03/08/85)
From: mab@aids-unix (Mike Brzustowicz) I remember the made-for-TV movie "The People". It was supposed to be a pilot for a new series. Unfortunately, it was a very poor adaptation, sort of a revue. The writers took several of the short stories and attempted to make one story out of them. The concepts that Zenna Henderson portrays well were, in the movie, lost on anyone who had not read the books. (I remember, in particular the concepts of Remembering [racial memory] and Old Ones [The leaders, based on Psi ability] being botched to the point of seeming silly even to ZH fans.) [For ZH fans who have not seen the movie--they attempted to combine the group at Bendo with the larger Group by Baldie--they captured much of the down side of Bendo, but none of the light and magic of the other Group. ] I recommend the two books about the people-- "Pilgrimage" and "The People--No Different Flesh". There was also a short story in "Holding Wonder" which might have been a People story--it's been so long since I've read it, but it read to me then (>10 yrs ago) as a possibility for "The Bright Beginning"--the start of the People's racial memory. Aside from these three books, and a fourth, called "The Anything Box" (All of which are short story collections, the first two having a "Meta-story" woven around them [in the fashion of Susan Calvin narration in "i robot"]), I don't know of any other books by her. Has anyone else heard of any? -Mike Brzustowicz <mab@aids-unix>