Her first books were historical romances for young adults, but in 1947 she demonstrated her long-time admiration for the fast-moving, action-packed fantastic adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard by writing her first science-fiction story, "The People of the Crater," which was published in
Fantasy Book under the pseudonym of Andrew North. In 1952 her full-fledged commitment to writing science fiction was inaugurated by the publication of
Star Man's Son, a postholocaust tale whose vision of a world inhabited by tribes preserving and building upon the remnants of a civilization destroyed by atomic war is a modification of themes favored by contemporary science-fiction writers in the uneasy ambience of the Cold War.
Once Norton began to write science fiction, she produced her novels at an astounding rate averaging between two and three a year. From the 1950s to the 1960s to the 1970s, she developed an increasingly individual subject matter, moving from the telling of technologically oriented tales of future history to the creation of more magical and mysterious realms in quasi-medieval alternate universes. Although the machinery and atmosphere of her books have changed considerably over the years, her central concerns remain the same.
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