"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...
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The devotion of Andre Norton to the imaginative worlds of literature has spanned nearly her entire life. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Alice Mary Norton began her literary career at a young age by not only...
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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...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Elaine Simpson
As always, Miss Norton writes an exciting story for SF readers. This reviewer was annoyed by the fact [in The Beast Master] that the author has merely rewritten a cowb...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Richard M. Buck
This boys' adventure story of Rebel scouts in the Civil War [Ride Proud, Rebel!] is undistinguished, with pedestrian style and prosaic dialogue…. Little...
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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-...
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Critical Essay by Alan Madsen
Of the two most recent Andre Norton novels, The X Factor and Quest Crosstime, The X Factor begins with the most promise; but it fails to fulfill that promise….
Whi...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Barry Mcghan
It is sometimes unfair to describe an author's writing in a single phrase. However, Andre Norton's stories, more easily classified than many, might be call...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Baird Searles
The prolific Andre Norton's science fiction adventures tend to be full of sound and fury, the narrative lines going around in circles rather than forward to a sa...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Merritt P. Allen
Older readers will compare this well-written and -plotted story ["Scarface"] with Howard Pyle. It has humor and atmosphere and action that never falter...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Hugh Crago
Andre Norton is a prolific author and like most prolific authors, she has her off-moments. Regrettably, Ice Crown appears to have been written in one of them. This story o...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by John Rowe Townsend
Although [Andre Norton's] fantasies and historical stories have merit, it seems to me that the science fiction is the most interesting part of her work and ...
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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...
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Critical Essay by C. S. Hannabuss
Readers have rightly come to expect excitement in science fantasy of the 'sword and sorcery' type, and from [Androids at Arms] they will not come away u...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Carpio
[Breed To Come is] above-average science fiction dealing with the effects of evolution on a polluted world deserted by humans and dominated by "the People�...
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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...
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Critical Essay by S. William Alderson
Star Born! The title itself is something of a pun on the two groups of the story: those born on Astra and those borne to Astra.
The events are told from two diffe...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Jessica Kemball-cook
Andre Norton's [The Crystal Gryphon] is an outright tale of sword-and-sorcery….
To tell this story the author has plunged fully into the epic world...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Kathryn A. Litsinger
SF fans and animal lovers will relish [Iron Cage, a] tale about a new breed of cats that inhabit an outer galactic planet. Initially, the creatures befriend huma...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Haviland
[In Lavender-Green Magic a] family of black children is drawn from a here-and-now situation in "Sussex," a community obviously north of Boston, into a...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Rick Brooks
The impression that a regular reader of Andre Norton's books might have is that of growing pessimism. From light hearted adventure stories like Star Rangers and Sa...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Jonas
Andre Norton's style is not to everyone's taste. She writes sentences like "Hunger was a discomfort within Sander" and "The creatures ...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Alice M. Jordan
[Scarface] is a vigorous, exciting story dealing with the days when the islands of the West Indies were infested with fearless, bloodthirsty pirates. In particular, i...
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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...
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Critical Essay by S. William Alderson
It is difficult to believe that Outside shares the same author as Knave of Dreams, for it is a very slight book, a mixture of When the Machine Stops, Survivors an...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Mary M. Burns
Recognizing the real meaning of courage and tentatively establishing the mutual understanding necessary for solid family relationships are the unifying elements of a sk...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Charlotte W. Draper
[Andre Norton] acknowledges that she has used the war game Dungeons and Dragons as the context for [Quag Keep]. Seven wayfarers, haunted by the memory of another ...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Lewis Buell
Although "Star Man's Son: 2250 A. D." is not science fiction in the strict sense (no space suits or other alluring gadgets) it ought to interes...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Learned T. Bulman
An excellent fabrication of old and new science-fiction ideas, "The Stars Are Ours!" is based on the theme that man's desire for personal liber...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Robert Berkvist
Two highly diverting offerings from André Norton will not disappoint those who have come to appreciate her flair for the unusual…. ["The Time Tra...
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