Zenna Henderson

About The Author

Zenna Henderson (1917–1983) published her first science fiction story, “Come On, Wagon!,” in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in December 1951 and was quickly singled out for praise by Sam Merwyn in an essay celebrating what was then seen as a new boom of women science fiction writers. In 1959, her long story “Captivity” received a Hugo nomination.

She is most widely remembered for “The People,” a series of stories first published between 1952 and 1980 about a group of humanoid aliens stranded on Earth who represent our better selves. Along with Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) and The People: No Different Flesh (1966), Henderson’s short fiction is collected in The Anything Box (1965) and Holding Wonder (1971). The People, a made-for-TV movie based on her series of the same name and starring Kim Darby and William Shatner, was released in 1972. Ingathering: The Complete People Stories (1995), including previously uncollected material, was published after Henderson’s death in Tucson at the age of sixty-five.

Books by Zenna Henderson

They're Here!
Contributions by Poul Anderson, Anthony Boucher, Steve Diamond, Neil Gaiman, Zenna Henderson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Richard Matheson, Larry Niven, Lester del Rey, Spider Robinson, James H. Schmitz, Michael Shaara, Alex Shvartsman, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele and Theodore Sturgeon / Edited by Hank Davis and Sean C.W. Korsgaard
THE ALIENS ARE AMONG US! “Where is everybody?” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked after a discussion about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on t...
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