A Mirror for Observers (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Pangborn
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: 1963 and 1972
- Setting: Latimer, Massachusetts, and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, New England, Mars, Plague, Aliens, space, Subterranean or underground regions, Massachusetts
- Locales: New York, NY, Massachusetts
The Plot
In Edgar Pangborn’s A Mirror for Observers, the inhabitants of Earth are watched by Martians who came to the planet eons ago and live in underground cities scattered throughout North America, Asia, and Africa. Blessed with enormously long lives and an elastic bone structure that enables them to radically alter their appearance, the Salvayans, as they call themselves, look forward to the day when humanity has advanced enough to merit union with the hidden space travelers.
Elmis, an observing Salvayan, leaves his city (246 feet below the tundra of...
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