The Wanderer

By: Fritz Leiber

Narrated by: Norman Deitz

This Hugo Award-winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master “ranks among [his] most ambitious works” (SFSite).

The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious “she” who owns him.

Critic reviews

Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1965

unusual story from 1965

hugo winner. strange but intesting story of survival and alien encounter. with some philosophy. enjoyed it.

The dated language towards women

Not as good as modern Hugo Award winning books. The story was ok but not as interesting as it could have been.

dated scifi

The premise for this book struck me as potentially very interesting but I'm afraid for me it reads more as a very, very dated scifi story. It's almost like an alternate history scifi novel but stuck in a pre-moon-landing era where rocket ships are cones with three legs and people still weren't even sure what the moon would be like. The author seems to strive to base things in science but it winds up stuck in late 50's speculation.

I'd recommend passing on this book and sticking with the more imaginative and less dated works by Heinlein or Niven.

to bad

dont bother boring over written in detail that don't make any differance to what little plot there is. the reading is realy bad and makes the whole thing hart to follow