Unforgettable 10

Alien Influences unfortunately has not been translated for those who can not read in their original language as it is one of the books whose reading still haunts me. The story begins on Bountiful inhospitable planet, burned desert inhabited by aliens The Dancers (thank you cartoonist Fred Gambino for his magnificent cover) AND no! Vs Rest assured, this is not a pale copy of Arrakis a small human colony operates a powerful drug but seems t it harmless
Or a tragedy strikes this small group: the discovery of the mutilated bodies of six young children. This heinous crime is it of the "dancers" and these strange rites?

The creatures Were not walking, ALTHOUGH They Were upright. They glided along Almost the hard-packed sand, and HAD long, twig-thin bodies with shiny black skin, two legs, two arms and wide, oblong heads with wide silver eyes. It was easy to sea why the colonists called Expired HAD em dancers: They Moved with a fluid grace, If They've made every step in time to a music Justin That couldn't hear.

ALIEN INFLUENCES is a dark yet beautiful book and a book which talks of differences incomprehensible to adults, but what about the perception of children?
These children who judge and who can understand their punishment but yet will suffer it. Finally a book that speaks of an adult child who by humanity will try to adapt and to save others: Beth Allen and Dusty, Pearl, Max, and Verity Skye. and above him - John - who loves but yet himself said "I can not carry you all through my future"

Each chapter is a fragment of the puzzle of life seen through ordinary characters of the acts and thoughts whose decisions will affect their destiny so special.

Gradually the son intersect, a larger fresco emerges that leads inescapably to the final revelation. Justin, Anita, Harper, Dania are beings caught up in the imbroglio of this turmoil but the children themselves, who are really -they ???

kk Rusch did in the ALIEN INFLUENCES uncompromising demonstration of his deep perception of human motivations; the gulf that separates us from those aliens. His descriptions are realistic, often flooding but it does not add to the horror It is this difference between the wealth of interiority of the characters, their feelings and their feelings the cold reality of the physical world, political, economic in which they operate, which makes it a true creative universe and that once started it is no longer possible to put the book before the final word.

Forgive the length of the comment I should stick to the title but it is a SF readings without the artifice of technique, which impressed me most.