Gentle Invaders (1969) Anthology edited by Hans Stefan Santesson
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Overview: "The Alien is most often described by science fictionists as a horror-inspiring monster with insidiously evil intentions. Our monsters are different."
Monsters are often synonymous with aliens because of their projected grotesqueness and wildly exotic physiology. But nearly have the stories in this collection feature humanoid aliens. Food for thought:
"How many of the people you see around you every day, the anonymous people that just look a little odd somehow, the people about who you think briefly that they don’t even look human–the queer ones you notice and then forget–how many of them aren’t human at all in the sense that we understand that word? (Brackett)"
It’s interesting to note that the first four stories are all by female writers: Sasha Miller (1933- ), Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975), and Zenna Henderson (1917-1983).
The editor, Hans Stefan Santesson, either understood that women do have a place in the science fiction community (seeing their important stories through the 50’s and 60’s) or the editor found that the women better understood the benevolent of innocuous disposition of the aliens he had in mind.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CONTENTS:
SIT BY THE FIRE – Myrtle Benedict
THE QUEER ONES – Leigh Brackett
FREAK SHOW – Miriam Allen de Ford
SUBCOMMITTEE – Zenna Henderson
UNNATURAL ACT – Edward D. Hoch
THE NIGHT HE CRIED – Fritz Leiber
THE MARTIANS AND THE COYS – Mack Reynolds
QUIZ GAME – Frank Robinson
DEAR DEVIL – Eric Frank Russell
PARTY OF THE TWO PARTS – William Tenn
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