SOURCE: "Zenna Henderson's 'People' and the Quest for Self-Identity," in Extrapolation, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1986, pp. 320-25.
In the following essay, Erisman declares that in her stories about the People, Henderson "takes one of the most familiar elements of science fiction, the alien encounter, and one of the most familiar elements of all literature, the quest, and makes a profoundly human document, a body of fiction that portrays a people's achieving identity."
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