Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by blackisle girl on February 17, 2021
I read this story when I was 10 or 11 and found it very moving.
An alien from a very advanced species crashes on Earth. He is trying to communicate with humans to get help. He looks like a very cute furry animal, and no-one will pay him attention except to put him into some sort of travelling carnival sideshow, from which he escapes. The end is tragic…he goes to live with rabbits in a field.
The story might have been called something like ‘The Star Creature’.
I think I've found this one. "The Star Beast" (1963) by Nicholas Stuart Gray.
It appears that the entire story can be read in a Google Books preview.
The creature falls from the sky, and shows up, hurt, at a farmer's door. The authorities take it away but refuse to acknowledge its intelligence, so it gets sold to a circus. As it gives up trying to communicate it gets increasingly treated like a dumb animal until it is finally broken. The ending is indeed very sad:
The last glimpse that anyone saw of it was by a hunter in the deeps of the forest.
It was going slowly looking in terror at rabbits and squirrels. It was weeping aloud and trying desperately to walk on all fours.
Answered by DavidW on February 17, 2021
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