Search Worlds Without End

Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring it. As the anger increases on the ship, the ground crew becomes more and more affected by the conflict and begins to rely on their instincts to keep the project moving forward. Unexpected danger plagues the mission as Lixia is determined to expand her knowledge.

A flight to a lost world of Antarctica. Garin Featherstone has been sent to explore a mysterious blue haze that was spotted in the polar region. There he discovers a lost civilization and a strange environment of vivid green lands, crimson tree trunks, and golden rivers. He must save Thrala of the light against the lizard men.

This is Andre Norton's first professional published story from 1947. Even the Grand Dame of science fiction had to have her first sale. And she shows her strengths in her first fantastic adventure story.

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:

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