Marion Zimmer Bradley 25 min read

After eight months on an idyllic windswept world of trees and whispering breezes, the Starholm's crew faces a unique problem: a child, Robin, born there, who cannot survive the journey home.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1959 story is a haunting, lyrical colonization and psi-powers tale. Tender, atmospheric, superbly told. Read it for a beautiful, melancholy story of a boy raised alone on a living planet and the strange kinship he forms with its unseen wind-people, in one of Bradley's most quietly powerful and affecting works.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Paul Orban