Miracle Workers, The-Jack Vance novella
Miracle Workers , The- Jack Vance novella The Miracle Workers is a 65/74 page novella published in July, 1958 by Astounding Science Fiction . The original inhabitants of the planet Pangborn are called First Folk . They are the size of humans but have foam sacs that bulge from their arms with orange lipped foam vents pointing forward. Their backs are wrinkled and loose with skin acting as a bellows to blow air through their foam-sacs. Enormous hands end with sharp chisel like fingers. The “head was sheathed in chitin. Billion-faceted eyes swelled from either side of the head, glowing like black opals.” They lived in fields of moss but were forced to move into the forests when humans arrived sixteen hundred years ago and displaced and marginalized the First Folk who now consider humans to be their enemy. These humans once had spaceships and advanced weapons and machines but over the years they lost the knowledge and skills that supporte...