Shadows in the Sun (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Chad Oliver
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Jefferson Springs, Texas
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, West, U.S., Anthropology or anthropologists, Texas, Aliens, space
- Locales: Texas
The Plot
This second novel by Chad Oliver takes place almost entirely in the mythical Texas town of Jefferson Springs, with a side trip to Austin and several visits to a hovering spaceship. Anthropologist Paul Ellery gradually comes to sense a wrongness about the small town where he has spent two months researching the populace. Not one of its six thousand residents has lived there more than fifteen years. Residents who move elsewhere are replaced with newcomers.
Oliver sets up Ellery’s uneasiness in the first chapter, grounding it in the prosaic reality of the town....
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