Andre Norton Summary

"Andre Norton, like all special writers, is more than just an author. She is a guide who leads us, the real human beings, to worlds and situations that we might expect to live, were we given extraordi... Read more

Andre Norton ranks among the top best-selling authors published by Ace, the leading paperback publisher of science fiction and fantasy. Her novels, which have sold in the millions, stay in print longe... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Ernst For those who like a pirate story and a mystery, "Scarface" is a fine one, well written, with plenty of action…. A map of the West Indies would ha... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Berkvist "The Beast Master" might easily have been just another Western played in futuristic terms. Miss Norton, however, endows the story of a homeless, revenge... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Manthorne In her latest two S-F concoctions [Andre Norton] shows the varied possibilities of inventiveness within her genre. [Quest Crosstime] is a political, villains-and-good-... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret A. Dorsey With Miss Norton's usual skilled writing, solid construction and sympathetic characters, [Operation Time Search] is a pleasure to read and to recommend. It ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret A. Dorsey After several gripping opening pages in which Dane Thorson, assistant cargo master of a free trader spaceship, awakes from attempted poisoning in unknown surroundi... Read more

Critical Essay by Diane Farrell A skillful intertwining of unlikely elements—folklore and spacelore, sorcery and science—generates an engrossing adventure [in Dread Companion]…. D... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Haynes Miss Norton's contributions have ranged from virtually pure SF to almost equally pure fantasy. [Dread Companion] leans heavily toward the latter and is somewh... Read more

Critical Essay by Sheryl B. Andrews In [Exiles of the Stars,] the sequel to Moon of Three Rings, [Andre Norton] continues with the story of Krip Vorlund, a Free Trader in some future eon, who through ... Read more

Critical Essay by Beryl Robinson Four boys experience individual adventures in space and time when they explore a deserted old house. Attracted to a jigsaw puzzle lying on a dust-covered table, each b... Read more

Critical Essay by Al Jackson Alice Mary Norton is a strange phenomenon in sf. The whole structure and setting of her stories is thirty years out of date. It's as if you took all those raging bl... Read more

Critical Essay by Marcus Crouch The two acknowledged masters of mainstream SF for young readers are André Norton and Robert A. Heinlein. Despite their almost parallel careers and their comparab... Read more

Critical Essay by Ralph Adams Brown The story [of "Scarface"] has a complicated and suspense-filled plot. The action is fast and the characterization is excellent. The historical backgro... Read more

Critical Essay by Jessica Kemball-cook Ziantha, a highly-trained telepath, makes a 'foray' or mind-search into the times of the Forerunners, an ancient race which predates her own era. W... Read more

Critical Essay by S. William Alderson In The Zero Stone, Murdoc Jern … inherits a ring, set with the inscrutable 'zero stone', from his murdered father and is himself caught up in... Read more

Critical Essay by Donald A. Wollheim In lists of leading science fiction writers such as might be compiled by academics or fan experts, it is probable that the name of Andre Norton would be missing, w... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher The Jargoon Pard belongs to that section of André Norton's writing which she calls "sword and sorcery"…. André Norton has alw... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher As an adventure story The Crossroads of Time must rank with the best of André Norton's work, with its tremendous variety of landscape and atmosphere and ... Read more

Critical Essay by Norman Culpan All André Norton's old skills are here [in Iron Cage], but they are here used to make explicit a theme, the important potential of animals, which has been... Read more

Critical Essay by Norman Culpan Kristie, [of Outside,] has lived all her life in a running-down city, completely domed and wholly shut off from the 'Outside', presumably long past devast... Read more

Critical Essay by Norman Culpan Not being, in any sense of the word, science fiction, Red Hart Magic is not typical André Norton, though there are resemblances, both in theme and treatment, to ... Read more

Critical Essay by Frederick Patten [Crossroads of Time] is a well-written introduction to the concept of parallel worlds. It becomes slightly sidetracked when Blake is forced into his overlong ordeal ... Read more

Critical Essay by H. H. Holmes ["Star Rangers" is] an imaginative and moving historical novel. This is a historical novel of the collapse of a decadent Galactic Empire; but it obtains it... Read more

Critical Essay by Virginia Haviland ["Yankee Privateer"] is a full-length tale of historical intrigue with more than enough action for one volume as the author invents one hair-raising c... Read more