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100 1 _aNourse, Alan Edward,
_d1928-1992
245 1 0 _aCircus
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963.
500 _aRelease date is 2007-10-03
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aAuthors -- Fiction
653 _aExtraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22875
999 _c63971
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