History Literature / TheWandering

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Neshi and his two companions from Nede are all killed on the last world they ended up on, but just as Neshi dies, he could hear the voice of his wife Etarina calling "Baba".]]

* DemonicPossession: The Natasians have the ability to possess their victims, even as children, as Ferene points out to Neshi when he tells about a memory he had where children were used in human sacrifice rituals, [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe including himself]].

* AnArmAndALeg: One of the "androids" Neshi sees in his hallucination takes off his own hand and throws it at him. Another "android" [[EyeScream takes out an eye]] and also gives it to him.

* CurbStompBattle: The Natasians versus the Jerusalemites, with the Natasians being powerful spirit beings that the Jerusalemites couldn't defeat. Neshi and Ferene barely escape the conflict, with Neshi being the one that the Natasians purposely spared so that they could exile him to space while they continue to do their evil work unhindered.

* AnArmAndALeg: One of the "androids" Neshi sees in his hallucination takes off his own hand and throws it at him. Another "android" takes out an eye and also gives it to him.

* ThePurge: What the Natasians plan to do with the populace of Neshi's homeworld, presumably through the sleep chambers.

* DeadlyGame: Government-sanctioned ones on Neshi's homeworld, usually consisting of [[CondemnedContestants a convict]] and a very heavily-armed robot. It is during Neshi attending one of the matches that he meets up with someone who passes along some important information leading to the mysterious Jerusalemites.

* DeadlyGame: Government-sanctioned ones on Neshi's homeworld, usually consisting of a convict and a very heavily-armed robot. It is during Neshi attending one of the matches that he meets up with someone who passes along some important information leading to the mysterious Jerusalemites.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Neshi and his wife Etarina, plus his two companions from Nede.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Neshi, as he imagines in one of his dreams that his homeworld was destroyed.

* CurbStompBattle: The Natasians versus the Jerusalemites. Neshi and Ferene barely escape the conflict, with Neshi being the one that the Natasians purposely spared so that they could exile him to space while they continue to do their evil work unhindered.

* AProtagonistShallLeadThem: Neshi finds out that the Jerusalemites were all waiting for him to lead them to victory against the Natasians.

* {{Hallucinations}}: Neshi has one when he was drugged by the Tech Detectives and sent for correction therapy for turning against his former allies, only to escape the holding facility with the help of the Jerusalemites.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Neshi starts to tell the Jerusalemites his dream as seen at the beginning of the book, the Jerusalemites one by one explain all the details as if they are constructing the entire story sentence by sentence, until they all communally end it with "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I weep for thee."

* FinishingEachOthersSentences: When Neshi starts to tell the Jerusalemites his dream as seen at the beginning of the book, the Jerusalemites one by one explain all the details as if they are constructing the entire story sentence by sentence, until they all communally end it with "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I weep for thee."

'''''The Wandering''''' is a 1990 ScienceFiction book by Roger Elwood. It is about a Tech Detective named Neshi who receives prophetic dreams and is currently working on a murder case when he stumbles upon what turns out to be a GovernmentConspiracy with a secret group of beings known only as the Natasians. His discovery does not go undiscovered by the powers-that-be, and soon he is exiled into space where he sees that countless worlds have fallen devastated by the Natasians. He soon settles on the planet called Nede which he thinks is a utopia, but soon he discovers secrets about its people that cause him to despair.