Project Gutenberg 2007-10-03 Public domain in the USA. 83 Nourse, Alan Edward 1928 1992 Edwards, Al Nourse, Alan E. (Alan Edward) Circus Produced from The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse published in 1963. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "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.) en Science fiction Short stories Authors -- Fiction Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 39580 39589 2024-09-10T05:37:41.261271 2023-09-10T09:04:00.259643 text/html text/html 35748 2021-01-03T02:40:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 13933 2021-01-03T02:40:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 56748 2024-09-10T05:37:44.119304 application/epub+zip 55793 2024-09-10T05:37:42.360270 application/epub+zip 55794 2024-09-10T05:37:41.657279 application/epub+zip 104446 2024-09-10T05:37:45.508250 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 98329 2024-09-10T05:37:43.679268 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 98478 2022-09-10T15:43:49.234523 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 33966 33865 2024-09-10T05:37:41.080295 2023-09-10T09:04:00.102578 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 33839 2021-01-03T02:40:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13032 2021-01-03T02:40:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19503 2024-09-10T05:37:45.634264 application/rdf+xml 8586 2024-09-10T05:37:41.998267 image/jpeg 2354 2024-09-10T05:37:41.823278 image/jpeg 55922 2024-09-10T05:37:41.266277 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia