The Wind People

A ship doctor makes an impossible choice: strand herself on a barren world with her infant son, or watch the child die in the void of space. But Robin's World is not as empty as it seems. The wind carries voices. The trees seem to watch. And young Robin, born into isolation, begins to hear something his mother cannot. Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1950s novella explores what happens when a child grows up between two worlds, one of human memory and one of something older, stranger, waiting in the whisper of wind through alien branches. This is a quiet, unsettling story about motherhood at its most desperate, and the fine line between imagination and something that might actually be out there. For readers who want their science fiction soft, strange, and haunted.