02299cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000360011324500110014926400510016030000470021133600260025833700260028433800360031049001040034650000310045050801140048152010620059553400450165765300200170265300180172265300230174065300390176383001040180285600430190622875UtSlPG20260610133527.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aNourse, Alan Edward,d1928-199210aCircus 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963.  aRelease date is 2007-10-03  aProduced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net  a"Circus" by Alan Edward Nourse is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story revolves around the theme of alien interaction and the complexities of communication across different worlds. It explores the existential challenges faced by a character navigating a parallel universe.  The narrative follows Jefferson Haldeman Parks, an alien stranded on Earth after a malfunction during a warp travel attempt. He desperately seeks help from Morgan, a writer, to return to his home. Despite his pleas and detailed accounts of his origins, Parks encounters skepticism and disbelief from the people he approaches, including representatives of authority. He grapples with feelings of isolation and frustration as he tries to prove his identity and the technological principles behind warp travel. Ultimately, the story poses profound questions about perception, belief, and the nature of humanity, culminating in a poignant exploration of the barriers to understanding between vastly different worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aAuthors -- Fiction  aExtraterrestrial beings -- Fiction 0aProduced from The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22875