The Little People (1967)

[ensmallen]

Wasn't too eager to look this up seeing that cover, but turns out the novel originally appeared as a serial in a British magazine, with covers much truer to the story and its premise. Not going to spoil it but yes there's "SW" scenes and no the story's hardly as trashy as the "first" cover suggests. Much better writing than say The Man Who Liked Women or even most older whiz-bang sci-fi pulp stories with SW.

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Sci ... 3/mode/2up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Sci ... 3/mode/2up
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Sci ... 3/mode/2up

SYNOPSIS: For a holiday away from it all, you could scarcely do better than Killabeg Castle, lying in the middle of Killabeg Bog, not far from the west coast of Ireland. Stefan Morwitz, a successful German businessman, son of an executed Nazi war criminal, brings his half-Jewish wife there. Waring and Helen Selkirk, threshing in a marriage of mutual hatred, arrive with their teenage daughter, Cherry. The proprietress is Bridget Chauncey, brought up in England, who unexpectedly inherited the place, the previous winter, from an unknown Irish cousin. Also staying at the Castle are Bridget's fiance, Daniel Gillow, a London solicitor, and Mat O'Hanlon, a Dubliner in the same profession. He too, has fancied himself in love with Bridget, but is having to make do with the bottle and, to his surprise, with the open and trusting affection of young Cherry. When Bridget first came to the Castle, she found a strange thing: a locked room in the old tower fitted up as a kind of laboratory-workshop but fantastically containing a set of dolls' houses. And the first night of his stay. Waring Selkirk, looking out from his window, thinks he sees in the moonlight a miniature human being. This is the land of the Little People of legend and though no one — not even Waring himself — believes that this is what he has seen — they begin to wonder....

[pokonota]

I'd like to just know which pages have SW.
I don't feel like plodding thru an entire novel for just a couple paragraphs of likely mild at best sw here and there.

[ensmallen]

I'd like to just know which pages have SW.
I don't feel like plodding thru an entire novel for just a couple paragraphs of likely mild at best sw here and there.

You could skip ahead to Part 2 for the best bits I guess:
Page 92: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Sci ... 9/mode/2up
Page 101: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Sci ... 9/mode/2up

[ensmallen]

Sharing another Internet Archive find while I'm here, YA so don't expect anything too *mature*, need an account to borrow and read:

Little (Grrl) LOST Two girls—two worlds—one magical novel by Charles de Lint! When 14-year-old T.J. and her family are forced to move from their farm to the Newford suburbs, she has to leave her best friend and give up her beloved horse, Red. She's lonely, depressed, and furious ... until she makes a most surprising new friend.

https://archive.org/details/littlegrrll ... i/mode/2up

[pokonota]

Thanks for the shares, Ensmallen, any sw finds are always great in general 🩷

[chocolatejr9]

Sharing another Internet Archive find while I'm here, YA so don't expect anything too *mature*, need an account to borrow and read:

Little (Grrl) LOST Two girls—two worlds—one magical novel by Charles de Lint! When 14-year-old T.J. and her family are forced to move from their farm to the Newford suburbs, she has to leave her best friend and give up her beloved horse, Red. She's lonely, depressed, and furious ... until she makes a most surprising new friend.

https://archive.org/details/littlegrrll ... i/mode/2up

Hey, I read that in high school!

[DocRick]

Sounds like a cute story, written for children, so obviously a G rated story, but it gave me the idea for a short story I posted in "Doc's World."

[ensmallen]

Thanks, everyone. Have another find here, haven't gotten to reading yet but this one's ... different, to say the least.

https://archive.org/details/isbn_978149 ... ew=theater
https://www.goodreads.com/series/113577-damselfly

DAMSELFLY (2013) Jennie Bates Bozic In 2065, the Lilliput Project created Lina - the first six-inch-tall winged girl - as the solution to a worldwide energy and food crisis. Isolated in a compound amidst the forests of Denmark, Lina has grown up aware of only one purpose: learn how to survive in a world filled with hawks, bumblebees, and loneliness. However, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, she discovers that she’s not the only teenager her size. Six 'Toms' were created shortly after Lina, and now her creators need to prove to the world that tiny people are the next logical step in human evolution. In other words, they need to prove that reproduction is possible. Um. No thanks. Lina's already fallen in love with a boy she met online named Jack. Only he has no idea that thumbelina1847 could literally fit inside his heart. When her creators threaten to hurt Jack unless she chooses a husband from among the ‘Toms’, Lina agrees to star in a reality TV series. Once the episodes begin to air, the secret of her size is out. Cut off from any contact with the outside world, Lina assumes Jack is no longer interested. After all, what guy would want to date a girl he can’t even kiss? Slowly, very slowly, she befriends the six young men who see her as their only ticket to happiness. Perhaps she can make just one guy’s dream of love and companionship come true. But her creators have a few more twists in store for her that she never thought possible. She’s not the only one playing to the cameras.

[ensmallen]

Speaking of different, this book has one chapter that maybe qualifies as a slow shrink SW story, only it's written by a maths PhD.

https://archive.org/details/hungryhollo ... 8/mode/2up

HUNGRY HOLLOW (1998) The Story of a Natural Place Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet, back into prehistoric time, and within to a teeming, bizarre microscopic world. In dozens of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to the denizens of this world. We encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba while swimming in a river, watch a toad win the lottery, and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of bears, earthworms, and even stones. This is an excursion into natural history like no other.

[ensmallen]

Another one from the Archive, just a short story again but well-written:

https://archive.org/details/isbn_092991 ... ew=theater

My Pet Fairy (2009) Teddie Goldenberg "That's a Brazilian fairy," Tom explained. "They can be difficult to keep." He moved the plastic habitat from the shelf to a column of books on the central table. Smaller than a mouse, the fairy was asleep on its side, in the fetal position. She had messy black hair to her waist and a rich, tan skin tone. I pointed out the wings. "I thought they had butterfly wings." "Gaelic fairies have wings like butterflies, but they're endangered. Can't buy 'em anywhere. I had a whole litter of Brazilians in just a week ago, but I sold most of them on eBay. This one's the runt, so I'll sell it for four-hundred dollars." So I bought it, without much consideration.