SFF Author: Andre Norton

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Star Guard: Exciting and emotional

Star Guard by Andre Norton Star Soldiers (2001 Baen Books, 2021 Tantor Media) contains the two related stand-alone stories Star Guard (1955) and Star Rangers (1953) which together are known as the CENTRAL CONTROL novels. I’m reviewing them separately since that’s how they were originally published. I’ve read more than 20 Andre Norton novels and […]

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The Stars are Ours: A fine SF adventure

The Stars are Ours by Andre Norton Tantor Media has been publishing the omnibus editions of Andre Norton’s science-fiction adventures in audiobook format. The omnibus (originally published by Baen) called Star Flight contains the novels The Stars are Ours and Star Born (the PAX/ASTRA duology). Both novels are set in the same universe (ours, actually) […]

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The Crossroads of Time: Chasing a tyrant across parallel Earths

The Crossroads of Time by Andre Norton Recently, Tantor Audio has been releasing audiobook editions of many of Andre Norton’s stories which have been combined in omnibus editions originally published by Baen Books. I’ve been reviewing each novel separately because that’s our preference here at Fantasy Literature, but I love that readers can purchase these […]

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The Time Traders: Non-stop adventure for kids and adults

The Time Traders by Andre Norton Ross Murdock just can’t follow the rules, so he keeps getting in trouble with the law. He’s arrogant, rebellious, independent, smart, competent, and proud. That makes him the perfect recruit for the government’s secret Time Traders program, so when they offer Ross the option to either join up or […]

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The Defiant Agents: Not one of Norton’s best stories

The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton The Defiant Agents is the third book in Andre Norton’s TIME TRADERS series about a secret United States government program that uses time travel to solve geopolitical problems, especially those involving the Cold War with the Russians. In the first book, The Time Traders, we met Ross Murdock, a […]

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Voorloper: A few humans try to make peace with a hostile planet

Voorloper by Andre Norton Voorloper (1980) is the last novel collected in The Game of Stars and Comets (2009), Baen’s omnibus of Andre Norton stories. I’ve been reviewing the books individually (because they were originally released as separate novels), but it’s cost-effective and convenient to purchase them in the omnibus edition. Specifically, I’m reviewing Tantor […]

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Dark Piper: Intense and memorable for young readers

Dark Piper by Andre Norton A decade-long war is finally over and the people who live on the planet of Beltane are relieved. During the war, Beltane, where many scientists lived, was recruited for the war effort and served, unwillingly, as an experimental lab. After the war, most of the scientists left the planet, creating […]

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Wraiths of time: An American grad student becomes an African princess

Wraiths of time by Andre Norton Tallahassee (Tally) Mitford, a graduate student who studies archaeology and African history, has been asked to examine some Egyptian artifacts that appear to be very old, important, powerful, and radioactive. When one of the relics pulls her into a parallel universe, Tally finds herself in Meroë, an ancient Nubian […]

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Black Trillium: Substandard

Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton At first glance, Black Trillium looks like an interesting project: three leading female authors of speculative fiction — Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May and Andre Norton — writing a book together. After having read it, I don’t think the result is a resounding success. It still […]

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Elvenbane: Norton vs. Lackey, Round 1

Elvenbane by Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey In the world of Elvenbane, elves have subjugated humanity because… well, they’re elves, frankly: magical and long-lived and perfectly capable of taking what they want. Apparently having served as the unselfish goodie-goodies one too many times, elves have instead been refreshingly cast as the fantasy version of the […]

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SHORTS: Jingfang, Emrys, Plait, Norton

There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about.  “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) (2015, free at Uncanny Magazine) Hao Jingfang’s novella “Folding Beijing” stayed with me long after I finished reading it. […]

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SHORTS: Swirsky, Vernon, Bardugo, Norton

There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about.  “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (2013, free at Apex Magazine) Rachel Swirsky‘s “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” is […]

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By Andre Norton and Jean Rabe

These are series which were begun by Andre Norton and finished by Jean Rabe.   The Magic Sequence — (1965-2008)  Begun by Andre Norton and finished by Jean Rabe. Publisher: Ages 9-12. Publisher: A final stand for Avalon… Sara, Greg, and Eric Lowry are exploring the woods near their uncle’s Hudson Valley estate when they are magically transported to the […]

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By Robert Bloch and Andre Norton

The Jekyll Legacy — (1990) Robert Bloch and Andre Norton. Publisher: After arriving in England to claim her inheritance, Hester Jekyll, niece of Dr. Henry Jekyll, discovers she gets nothing, and suddenly her friends are untrustworthy and aloof. Hester becomes entangled in her uncle’s mysterious past, and a series of brutal deaths cause her to […]

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