Andre Norton, Author . Baen $18 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-31827-7
Two of SFWA Grand Master Norton's earlier novels, Star Guard
(1955) and Star Rangers
(1953), offered here with minimal textual changes, should be just as enjoyable to the grandchildren if not great-grandchildren of the original readers. In Guard,
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Andre Norton. Open Road, $19.99 trade paper (338p) ISBN 978-1-62467-273-6
The three-volume definitive compilation of SFWA Grand Master Norton's short fiction concludes with 21 stories published between 1996 and 2005, the year of her death. Though her classic Witch World is notably absent from this volume, these often...
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Andre Norton. Premier Digital Publishing (Ingram, U.S. dist; Canadian Manda Group, Canadian dist.), $22.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-62467-189-0
Norton was a prolific speculative fiction author whose career spanned eight decades, one of the few high profile women working in the field of science fiction and from the award's inception to 2003, the sole female recipient of the Damon Knight...
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Andre Norton, Author Warner Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51991-5
Though Norton (Elvenblood), born in 1912, often writes with a collaborator now, she flies solo in what's billed as the final entry in her most popular and acclaimed series, which began 33 years ago with the novel Witch World. When Alizondern nobles...
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Andre Norton, Author Avon Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-77097-7
Norton's latest fantasy features a psychic girl who, with the aid of a reluctant young noble, takes on a quest to destroy an evil wizard. (June)
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Andre Norton, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (394p) ISBN 978-0-688-13988-9
Spunky female characters who use their magical powers to engender compassionate resolutions in male-dominated societies have long been one of Norton's (The Hands of Lyr) staples. This prime example of that winning formula introduces 18-year-old...
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Andre Norton, Author Spectra Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09507-4
Norton's first solo contribution to the Trillium series adopts a slower pace and more thoughtful tone than did Black Trillium (written with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Julian May) and Blood Trillium (by May alone). The land of Ruwenda is once again...
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85314-3
Nebula Grand Master Norton and Griffin recreate the flavor of Norton's four Solar Queen books (published almost 40 years ago) while updating some concepts and quite a bit of technology. The crew of the Free Trader vessel Solar Queen , flying under...
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Andre Norton, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (311p) ISBN 978-0-688-12758-9
The well-known author of the Witch World series sets her disappointingly thin mix of fantasy and space opera in the far future on the recently settled planet of Asborgan. After being expelled from the brotherhood of assassins by a corrupt priest,...
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85044-9
This collection of stories set in Norton's Witch World universe will appeal mainly to the longtime fan. Nineteen writers, 17 of them women, contribute their elaborations of events and people in those war- and magic-torn lands. Many of the tales, set
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $17.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-85012-8
Farree, the misshapen orphan rescued from the slums of the Limits who discovered his wings in Flight in Yiktor , now seeks his own kind, known only from distant legends associated with a fabled Terran past. With Free Trader Krip Vorlund and the...
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $17.95 (500p) ISBN 978-0-312-93191-9
This collection of 13 captivating short stories and novellas written between 1952 and 1985 samples the wide range of Nebula Grand Master Norton's ( Tales of the Witch World 1 ) work. The first six entries, set in the Witch World universe, depict...
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $17.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-93128-5
Master storyteller Norton has teamed up with Shwartz ( Silkroads and Shadows ) to produce an eerie and delightful tale about a girl who goes from outcast at the court of the Han emperor to queen of a barbarian horde in the steppes of central Asia....
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Andre Norton, Author Tor Books $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0054-6
The Solar Queen combines two early novels, Sargasso of Space (1955) and Plague Ship (1956), from SFWA Grand Master Andre Norton's bestselling SF series centered on the spaceship Solar Queen. Despite the dated technology, these adventures still ...
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Andre Norton, Author Baen Books $25 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-31849-9
SF grande dame Andre Norton presents three previously published novels (Storm over Warlock, Ordeal in Otherwhere and Forerunner Foray) in a single volume in Warlock. Free Traders, alien invaders, magical gems and ""gentle fems"" (a customary...
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Andre Norton, Author Eos $23 (280p) ISBN 978-0-380-97602-7
A foray into the consciousness of its antihero opens this stately chronicle of evil vs. goodness from a veteran, celebrated author. Irasmus, formerly an apprentice at Valarian, the Place of Learning, has renounced his teachers and plundered their...
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Andre Norton, Author . Tor $23.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0464-3
SFWA Grand Master Norton (Wizards' Worlds
, etc.) delivers her first solo novel in more than five years, a solid stand-alone inspired by the border wars between England and Scotland. Three outspoken and appealing princesses, the triplets Tamara,
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Andre Norton, Author Eos $23 (361p) ISBN 978-0-380-97687-4
The veteran Norton concocts a heady mixture of Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and aromatherapy in this new magical adventure. Scullery maid Willadene, 16, no sooner escapes from her cruel Aunt Jacoba's tavern than her gift, the ability to...
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Andre Norton, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (388p) ISBN 978-0-688-13417-4
Norton ( Brother to Shadows ) will please her fans with this fantasy about a girl with psychic powers who combats an ancient evil with the aid of an embittered young noble. In a blighted valley called the Ryft, the waif Alnosha, called Nosh, is...
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Andre Norton, Author Baen Books $19 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-31968-7
This omnibus-volume reprint of two Norton novellas, The Defiant Agents (1962) and Key Out of Time (1963), showcases the science fiction grand master's stylish way with a space-time adventure yarn. In a brave new future Earth, a doughty team of...
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Andre Norton, Author, P. M. Griffin, Author Tor Books $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-85313-6
In a satisfying return to Norton's Time Trader world, a young man finds himself as he teaches guerrilla warfare to a feudal, nonterrestrial offshoot of humanity in order to prepare them properly for a future in which space- and time-traveling humans
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Andre Norton, Author, P. M. Griffin, Author, Pauline Griffin, With Tor Books $19.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-93171-1
Nebula Grand Master Norton ( Dare to Go A-Hunting ; Wizards' Worlds ) is back at the top of her form in one of two tales beginning a new series. ``Port of Dead Ships'' follows Destree m'Regnant, a young woman despised by her people, the Sulcars, due
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Andre Norton, Author, Grace Allen Hogarth, With Tor Books $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-85222-1
An old-fashioned and charming mystery set in New England during the early 1950s is the joint production of science fiction/fantasy veteran Norton (the Witch World series) and mystery editor Hogarth. Librarian Fredericka Wing takes a summer job...
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Andre Norton, Author, A. C. Crispin, With Tor Books $19.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-312-85123-1
The further history of the Witchworld--set almost two generations after the Kolder War--is brought vividly to life by Nebula Grand Master Norton and Crispin (the Starbridge series) in their second collaboration, after Gryphon's Eyrie . Young...
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Andre Norton, Author, Mary Schaub, With, P. M. Griffin, With Tor Books $21.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-312-85014-2
Schaub is credited as author of the two long tales (comprising more than 370 of the 384 pages) that, framed by a short introduction and afterword, make up this sequel to Storms of Victory, co-written by Nebula Grandmaster Norton and Griffin. In ``Exi
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Andre Norton, Author, Mercedes Lackey, Joint Author . Tor $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-86456-9
The excitement flags somewhat in the third book of Norton and Lackey's popular high fantasy series (after The Elvenbane
and Elvenblood). Where earlier volumes focused on humans and dragons, now elves come to the fore in a tale of the...
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Andre Norton, Author, Mercedes Lackey, Introduction by Tor Books $27.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0052-2
Andre Norton's Lost Lands of Witch World gathers three Witch World novels by the grande dame of fantasy: Three Against the Witch World (1965), Warlock of the Witch World (1967) and Sorceress of the Witch World (1968). Mercedes Lackey provides an
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Andre Norton, Author, Sherwood Smith, With Tor Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-85920-6
The authors' sequel to their Derelict for Trade (Forecasts, Jan. 27) continues their revival of Norton's classic Solar Queen series at the high level of its predecessor. The Queen now has a new crew--Dane Thorson, Rip Shannon, Jasper Weeks, Craig...
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Andre Norton, Author, Sherwood Smith, With Tor Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-85919-0
The second novel to continue the senior author's classic Solar Queen saga of a tramp starship is a vast improvement over Redline the Stars (1993), perhaps because here Norton, who's 84, is working with the talented Smith (the Wren series). Taking...
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Andre Norton, Author, Sasha Miller, Author . Tor $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0748-4
Although billed as the conclusion to Miller and Norton’s Oak, Yew, Ash and Rowan Cycle, this fifth installment (after 2005’s Dragon Blade
) is a cliché-strewn mess that resolves few of the many plotlines. Former protagonists Ashen
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Andre Norton, Author, Sasha Miller, Author Tor Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0747-7
At the outset of this fourth book (after A Crown Disowned) of the Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan Cycle, Ashen NordornQueen and her husband, Gaurin NordornKing, expect to take a much-needed rest from their travails against the Great Foulness that earlier...
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Andre Norton, Author, Sasha Miller, Author, Sasha Miller, Joint Author Tor Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-87338-7
In A Crown Disowned: Volume Three of the Cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan, the lively, well-paced conclusion to Andre Norton and Sasha Miller's fantasy trilogy (To the King a Daughter; Knight or Knave), Rohan must defeat the Ice Dragons and the...
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Andre Norton, Author, Susan Shwartz, Author Tor Books $22.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-85169-9
An exotic blend of Roman, Hindu and more distant lore informs this second collaboration (after Imperial Lady ) between Grand Master Norton and Shwartz. After the crushing defeat at Carrhae of the Roman proconsul Crassus in 43 B.C., the victorious...
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Andre Norton, Author, Sherwood Smith, Author, Sherwood Smith, Joint Author Tor Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-85921-3
The prolific Norton (Wind in the Stone, Forecasts, Oct. 11, etc.) has again returned to her Time Traders series, this time in collaboration with Sherwood Smith. Begun in 1958, the long-dormant series was first revived in the 1994 with Firehand,...
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Andre Norton, Author, Sherwood Smith, Author, Sherwood Smith, Joint Author . Tor $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-85922-0
Was the cataclysmic blast that blew the island of Atlantis (aka Thera) to bits a natural disaster, or was it something more sinister? In this latest fast-paced Time Traders adventure (Echoes in Time, etc.), SFWA Grandmaster Norton and Smith (Earth:...
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Andre Norton, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Joint Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86427-9
Norton (Scent of Magic) and Edghill's (Book of Moons) collaboration shows how British history might have developed had the heirless Charles II been succeeded by his eldest bastard, the Duke of Monmouth, instead of by his unpopular brother James....
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Andre Norton, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Joint Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86428-6
Veterans Norton and Edghill's sequel to The Shadow of Albion (1999) fails to do full justice to its rich setting and promising premise an early 19th-century alternative world where the American Revolution never happened and where magical spells are...
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Andre Norton, Author, Mercedes Lackey, With Tor Books $22.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-312-85548-2
The prolific Norton again collaborates with Lackey to create another thinly disguised romance/miscegenation parable serving as a fantasy/adventure novel. Sheyrene and her brother, Lorryn, are kept virtual prisoners to their father's wishes, since he
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Andre Norton, Author, Mercedes Lackey, With Tor Books $19.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-85106-4
SF master Norton ( The Crystal Gryphon and the Witch World series) and her new collaborator Lackey ( Arrows of the Queen and subsequent volumes of the Valdemar series) have produced a fine coming-of-age adventure in which a decadent elven society...
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Andre Norton, Author, Lyn McConchie, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0042-3
Telepathic beasts and the efforts of Laris, a young animal trainer, to escape her bondage to Dedran, a greedy Circus Master, add intrigue to this latest installment of Norton and McConchie's Beast Master series (Beast Master's Arc
, etc.)....
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Andre Norton, Author, Lyn McConchie, Author . Tor $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0637-1
Though fantasy veteran Norton, who died earlier this year, receives first billing, New Zealander McConchie indicates in her acknowledgments that she, with her mentor's blessing, wrote this entertaining, if unspectacular, novel set in Norton's
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Andre Norton, Author, Lyn McConchie, Author Tor Books $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0636-4
In Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie's The Duke's Ballad, the latest enjoyable entry in Norton's durable Witch World series, Aisling, a young half-breed witch, must rid her country of Karsten of the blight her brother's evil has spread. Teens will...
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Andre Norton, Author, Lyn McConchie, Author, Lyn McConchie, Joint Author . Tor $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0041-6
On the planet Arzor, Terrans must not only win over the indigenous Nitri but face a common enemy, the mysterious Death by Night, which leaves only skeletons behind, in this long-awaited addition to the Beast Master series from SF Grand Master Norton
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Andre Norton, Author, Sasha Miller, Joint Author . Tor $23.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-312-87337-0
Second in Norton and Miller's Oak, Yew, Ash and Rowan series, this cheerful, childlike, appealing fantasy blithely romps along after its predecessor, To the King a Daughter, replete with whimsical sorcery, swordsmanship and swampy creatures....
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Andre Norton, Author, Jean Rabe, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1298-3
In Norton and Rabe's serviceable sequel to Norton's Quag Keep
(1978), the first novel based on a role-playing game, the original seven adventurers have survived their quest and regained their memories of who they really are—gaming...
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Andre Norton, Author, Jean Rabe, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1659-2
Based on a concept discussed between Norton and Rabe before Norton's death in 2005, this long-delayed sequel honors the classic elements of Norton's 1972 young adult fantasy Dragon Magic
while taking on a decidedly modern air. Shilo's
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