The Wanderer (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—catastrophe
- Time of Work: The near future
- Setting: Several places on Earth and on a new planet
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Earth, Moon or moons, Aliens, space
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The story is a quick-paced adventure that shifts back and forth among various groups and individuals. The first group, which is given the most attention, is made up of about a dozen people attending an outdoor flying saucer meeting in Southern California. They are in the middle of a discussion when a huge planet, in gaudy shades of purple and gold, suddenly materializes near the Moon in the night sky. This group spends the rest of the book trying to get to Vandenberg Two, home of the Moon Project and the U.S. Space Force’s newest base, which houses a scientist who...
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