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Lyn McConchie(1946- )
Lyn McConchie is the author of more than a dozen books, including more than a half dozen collaborations with Andre Norton. Three-time winner of New

Zealand’s highest SF/Fantasy honor, the Lord Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, she lives in Norsewood, New Zealand. Learn more at Lyn McConchie’s website.


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The Beast Master: A science fiction western

The Beast Master by Andre Norton

I first found Andre Norton on the shelves of my elementary school library in fourth grade. I have no idea which of her novels was the first one I read. I just know whichever one it was, it was far from the last. One after the other, bound only by whatever limit our library put on me, I read all I could find on the shelves. And then I read them again. And then again. By the time I left that school in sixth grade,


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The Questing Road: Flat characters, weak writing

The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie

New Zealand author Lyn McConchie has written several novels with Andre Norton in that author’s WITCH WORLD and BEAST MASTER universes, so I was surprised that The Questing Road, though officially McConchie’s first solo fantasy novel, actually reads much like a debut novel. While there are a few moments of charm and sparkle, the characters are so flat, and the writing so uneven, that I would have easily believed this to be someone’s first attempt at a novel.


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