Andre Norton
AKA: Alice Mary Norton; Andre Alice Norton; Andrew North; Allen Weston. Norton always had an affinity to the humanities. She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher. First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male-dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice. She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms.Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) association in 1983.Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, in 1964 for the novel Witch World and in 1967 for the novelette "Wizard's World." She was nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, winning the award in 1998. Norton won a number of other genre awards, and regularly had works appear in the Locus annual "best of year" polls.On February 20, 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which had earlier honored her with its Grand Master Award in 1983, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market, beginning in 2006. Often called the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy by biographers such as J. M. Cornwell and organizations such as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Publishers Weekly, and Time, Andre Norton wrote novels for over 70 years. She had a profound influence on the entire genre, having over 300 published titles read by at least four generations of science fiction and fantasy readers and writers. Notable authors who cite her influence include Greg Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, C. J. Cherryh, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Joan D. Vinge, David Weber, K. D. Wentworth, and Catherine Asaro.
Android at Arms
Andre Norton
EVIL GNAWING AT THE HEART OF EMPIRE
Was he an Android? or was he, as he thought, the rightful Emperor of Inyanga, imprisoned on an alien planet and kept in mind lock while an android ruled in his place?
Even after he met his double he could not be sure, but he knew his life was worth nothing if he fell into his rival's hands. Hiding from pursuit in a remote and supposedly haunted corner of the great palace, he was summoned to a strange fire by the sound of an ancient harp and drawn into a world that mirrored his own - but a world so beleaguered by enemies from within and without that is seemed it must perish.
Yet, somehow, he had to save it ... and with it the whole of Inyangen civilization.
Breed to Come
Andre Norton
When desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thrived. Each generation was more forceful and intelligent than the last.
In the ruins of what was once a university complex, a vast band of The People, more highly evolved than those on the outside, sought to master the works of men. And they learned that the demons (as men were called) were not legendary but real. Then one day a spaceship landed...
Catfantastic II
Andre Norton
Offers a collection of cat tales, including the stories of Bomber, who seeks revenge on the German battleship Bismarck, and Bat and Punkin, who patiently seek the only humans worthy of them
Catfantastic III
Andre Norton
Here are all-new tales about those magical, mysterious dominators of humankind: the cats! Return to the cats' hunting ground with this third collection of stories. Twenty fur-flying fantasies are sure to capture the hearts of cat lovers everywhere.
Catfantastic IV
Andre Norton
This latest volume of 17 new cat stories offers both familiar characters returning for further adventures as well as new furry friends to capture your heart. Meet wizards' four-footed helpers, who are often brighter than their so-called masters, a real cool cat who's the ultimate jazz connoisseur, and other terrific tabbies sure to make you purr with delight.
Catfantastic: Nine Lives and Fifteen Tales
Andre Norton
Two of the biggest names in the fantasy field have put together a unique collection of fantastical cat tales for friends of furry felines. Cats work a special magic in these stories from the future, from the past, and from dimensions people never dream of.
Introduction: Speaking of cats--
a very weighty subject / by Andre Norton --
The gate of the kittens / by Wilanne Schneider Belden --
The damcat / by Clare Bell --
Borrowing trouble / by Elizabeth H. Boyer --
Day of discovery / by Blake Cahoon --
Wart / by Jayge Carr --
Yellow eyes / by Marylois Dunn --
It must be some place / by Donna Farley --
The dreaming kind / by C.S. Friedman --
Trouble / by P.M. Griffin --
Skitty / by Mercedes Lackey --
The game of cat and rabbit / by Patricia Shaw Mathews --
From the diary of Hermione / by Ardath Mayhar --
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's--
supercat! / by Ann Miller and Karen Elizabeth Rigley --
Noble warrior / by Andre Norton --
Bastet's blessing / by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Catfantastic V
Andre Norton
In these all-original stories, you'll meet the cats of the past, cats of the stars-wide future, cats who take power into their own paws, and cats who can face down Death itself. These are 24 tales certain to capture the hearts and imaginations of feline-lovers everywhere. br brPraise for the iCatfantastic/i series: br br"Will be relished by cat lovers, whether science-fiction/fantasy fans or not."-- iBooklist/i br br"A must for science fiction/cat lovers."-- iKliatt/i
Catseye (Dipple, #1)
Andre Norton
The big cat cried "danger!" Troy Horan heard it with his mind just as he had heard the fox's warning and the kinkajou's. He didn't understand how he could communicate with the animals or why they were contacting him. But from the moment he began work at Kyger's pet emporium on Korwar he was enmeshed in a perilous intrigue... an intrigue that would leave more than one man dead, an entire government in jeopardy, and Horan himself both master and captive of the most extraordinary band of warriors his world had ever known.
Dare to Go A-Hunting (Moon Magic, #4)
Andre Norton
Krip Voreland, interplanetary Free Trader, Maelen, sorceress of the Moon of Three Rings, and Farree, an orphan with iridescent wings, search for the mystery of Farree's ancestry, the secret of this race of winged people known as the Little People and their well-guarded treasure
Dark Piper
Andre Norton
Returning home after ten years, Griss Lugard found Beltane relatively untouched by the annihilating war of the Four Sectors, her inhabitants still immersed in the biological researches on mutation for which the planet had been designated. The destruction of the other worlds in the Confederation meant little to them, nor would they listen to Lugard's warnings of danger from the lawless elements roaming the chaotic off-world.
Only Vere Collis and his nine young friends believed in Lugard and, drawn by his magnetism and his promises of exploring unknown desert caves, were safe underground when a series of explosions rocked Beltane, killing Lugard and sealing them in. In the days that followed, the small group battled fear and despair, as well as enemies more tangible, until they won their way to the surface, there to receive a shattering blow: all other human inhabitants on Beltane had perished. Only strange and possibly hostile mutant creatures remained.
Rich in adventure and excitement, Dark Piper once more displays the superlative imagination and narrative skill that have put Andre Norton among the top writers of science fiction.
Dread Companion
Andre Norton
A nightmare world unfolds when Kilda agrees to care for two children emigrating from Chalox to the planet Dylan
Empire of the Eagle (Central Asia, #2)
Andre Norton
The young Roman soldier Quintus shares the dream of every man in the Imperial army: to grow old and honorable in its service, to earn his wooden sword and land at life’s end. But Quintus is also driven by a stronger need—he longs to reclaim his family’s honor that was torn asunder, caught in the bloody arena of Rome’s politics.
But dreams can turn to dust on the tides of battle, and when his commander Crassus and his legions are defeated at Carrhae (with the might of Rome in disgrace and the golden Eagles—Rome’s most honored symbol of power—captured), Quintus is left with little hope, either for his family’s salvation…or a lengthy survival. As the struggling remnants of the Roman army are sold as slaves, Quintus (and the Eagles) are destined to go East—forever east as token pawns, tribute to the distant Han Emperor in the far off Land of Gold. Quintus will do as a Roman must—his honor gone, he will follow the Eagle…and strive to somehow recapture the honor that Rome has lost.
And so onto the East, out of the logic and honor that is Rome…and into the mists of legend. To see visions of wonder unknown to any Roman.
And learn that the Eagle has a power and magic all its own.
Exiles of the Stars (Moon Magic #2)
Andre Norton
As crew members of the Free Trader ship Lydis, Maelen, in the furred body of Vors, and Krip Vorlund, who now walked as a Thassa, had put down on the planet Thoth to find themselves in the midst of an explosive civil war. The Thothian priests wanted them to transport the valuable Forerunner treasure to Ptah for safekeeping.
The Free Traders agreed. But shortly after lift-off disaster struck - and their ship was forced down on the uninhabited, terror-filled planet of Sekhmet.
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Flight in Yiktor (Moon Magic, #3)
Andre Norton
A crippled child seeking courage and identity. An exiled sorceress seeking redemption. A spaceman in an alien’s body, seeking justice: Three quests joined together beneath a moon of three rings.
Orphaned, deformed, Farree was a beastmerchant’s slave in a spaceport slum. Suddenly he and his only friend, a venomous hunting pet, Toggor the smux, were released by two strangers: Lady Maelen, the Moon Singer, a psychic, body-stealing sorceress; and Lord-One Krip Vorlund, a telepathic ex-Free Trader. With their encouragement, Farree began to learn self-respect as his limited mental rapport with animals grew into a full mind-touch.
But Farree’s freedom brought new perils: Maelen and Krip had earlier stopped the intergalactic Thieves’ Guild from looting Forerunner artifacts, and the pirates had marked them for death. On planet and in space, the three and their beasts repeatedly fought off Guild attacks, as their course led to the planet Yiktor—Maelen’s homeworld, from which she had been exiled by her people, the Thassa mindmasters. But now she had to return: a secret Guild plot centered on Yiktor, the pirates had perfected a mind shield, and the non-technological Thassa might not be able to stop the plundering of their world.
Thus, with Farree, Krip and Maelen each helping and protecting the others, the triple quests began. One would lead to success; one to disaster, destruction and terrifying devastation. And one would lead to an incredible transformation, to the emergence of a being whose beauty, grace and power had never before been seen in the galaxy; and to a great—and possibly unsolvable—mystery…
Forerunner
Andre Norton
Of all the justly famous writers of science fiction and fantasy, none has inspired greater enthusiasm and loyalty than Andre Norton. Of all Ms. Norton's works, none has been more warmly received than her famed "Forerunner" series, a series whose heroes and heroines have already taken on the trappings of legend.
Forerunner Foray
Andre Norton
Ace #24620, 1973. Although this title starts with "Forerunner" it is actually the 3rd book in the "Warlock" series (which is the 3rd part of the Forerunner Series).
Includes Preface written by the author.
When a highly skilled sensitive, or mind reader, comes into contact with a strange green stone, she finds herself trapped in the past in the identity of another person.
Only Andre Norton could have created Ziantha, and the story of how her powerful mental talents led her to the eerie stone of power that drew her on a deadly quest, back through ancient empires and alien reincarnations, seeking the lost talisman of a forgotten race. Forerunner Foray is a vivid window on the future that no science fiction fan can afford to miss!
Forerunner: The Second Venture
Andre Norton
Norton, Andre, The Second Venture
Four from the Witch World
Andre Norton
Andre Norton, Grand Master of Fantasy, brings together a quartet of today's finest fantasy talents to produce short novels of extraordinary power and beauty, set in the Witch World, her greatest fantasy creation.
Stillborn Heritage by Elizabeth H. A girl's coming of age proves a supernatural test of her strength...and of the power of love.
Stormbirds by C.J. A soldier of the Dales, thrown together with an Estcarp witch in the bitter aftermath of war, must overcome his own hatred or be destroyed by the Hounds of Alizon.
Rampion by Meredith Ann An island girl, spurned by her noble father and orphaned by the death of her mother, is caught in a wed of sea-magic by a mysterious troubadour come from afar to settle old scores.
Falcon Law by Judith A woman and a falconer could not be the one, said the code. Yet her falcon chose her, so she lived a lie, to fulfill a great destiny.
Let these four master storytellers sweep you into the magical realm of fantasy adventure that has enthralled millions of readers...
Galactic Derelict (Time Traders/Ross Murdock, #2)
Andre Norton
Three men journey into the past to investigate a crashed alien spaceship, but just as they have completed their mission the ship takes off with them, destination unknown
Garan the Eternal
Andre Norton
In our world, he was Garin, jet pilot and explorer. In the lost land of Tav, he was Garan who would supply the link with their most ancient past. And in a world far distant in space and time, he was Garan of Yu-Lac, who would stand alone between a planet's doom and the ones he loved.
GARAN THE ETERNAL is a web of wonders woven by a master writer. It is the story of three lives tied by a recurrent destiny - that of Kepta the Ambitious, of Thrala the Divine, and of Garan himself, man of three worlds.
Here is a never-before-published novel by the author of the Witch World series - a new adventure in science fiction and fantasy sure to please Andre Norton's legion of readers.
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Golden Trillium
Andre Norton
The creation of three of fantasy's stellar talents, the Trillium Saga is a tour de force of magic, mystery, and romance. Now best-selling author Andre Norton picks up the story she began with Julian May and Marion Zimmer Bradley--a story that continues with a perilous quest into darkness. . .Once the famed triplet princess who defeated the evil sorcerer Orogastus, Kadiya ventures forth into the choked swamp lands of Ruewena to seek her own destiny among the Oddlings she once led in battle. Armed with her mystical three-eyed sword, she reaches the lost city of the Vanished Ones and discovers a strange race of dream-catchers, called Hassitti, whose visions bring chilling warning of a lethal plague that sows the land with death. Now Kadiya, with only three comparisons to aid her, journeys into the Thorny Hell, realm of the cannibalistic saurian Skritek, to stop the carrier of the evil disease. Here they discover a portal leading to a universe of awesome darkness--an entranceway to a horror that threatens the very existence of The World Of The Three Moons .
Gryphon in Glory (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #6)
Andre Norton
Unrest fills the Dales as Joisan sets out from her refuge to seek out her husband, Kerovan, journeying on a secret mission in the Waste where the evil powers of the Dark threaten on every hand. Companion to the earlier book, The Crystal Gryphon.
Gryphon's Eyrie (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #7)
Andre Norton
The urge within him is overwhelming, and Kerovan--he of the cloven hooves and amber eyes--is driven toward the mountains--toward the dark. With him goes the Lady Joisan, who carries within her secrets unknown to Kerovan.By calling upon the Powers within themselves, willing the forces of Light to fight against the forces of the Dark, they reach their destination...only to face That Which Runs the Ridges in the final battle. Everlasting Undeath--and horror for all the world--will take them if they fail.
High Sorcery
Andre Norton
Warlocks of other worlds - or scientists of times unknown? Craike, a man hunted in two worlds… Miss Rutheven, whose needles pointed to secret kingdoms… Dagmar, with the fatal fascination of Helen of Troy… Ully, whose music touched the powers before mankind… Tamisan, the sorceress who found herself the victim of her toys…These and others like them, inhabit Andre Norton’s world of HIGH SORCERY, where the primeval desires and fears of man – his loving and loathing – are merged with his dreams of future knowledge and technological power. Those who have enjoyed the alchemy of Norton’s other mind-bending tales should enjoy these!
Horn Crown (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #0)
Andre Norton
Humans enter the Witch World through the open cosmic gate and discover a land deserted by its inhabitants, but still ruled by the powerful Old Gods
Huon of the Horn
Andre Norton
A wondrous tale of brave knights, black-hearted villains, and fairy kings in a magical time of the long ago.
Iron Cage
Andre Norton
Snatched from his family by an alien race, Jony endures torturous experiments and comes to live with the People, a gentle tribe of intelligent animals. Reprint.
Lavender-Green Magic (The Magic Series, #5)
Andre Norton
Book 5 of 6: The Magic Sequence
With their father missing in action in Vietnam, Holly and her siblings end up in a time warp as they race to free their town from a witch’s curse
When Holly, Judy, and Crockett Wade are sent to live with their grandparents after their father is declared MIA in Vietnam, Holly fears she’ll never fit in at school. The small town of Dimsdale, Massachusetts, is nothing like Boston. Even worse, Grandma and Grandpa Wade live in an overgrown house next to the town dump, a place without electricity or running water! None of the dishes match, and Holly’s grandparents are always bringing back other people’s odds and ends. But an old, smelly pillow embroidered with broken circles leads to strange dreams—and a maze in the junkyard! At first, when Holly and her brother and sister walk through an opening in the maze, they don’t realize they’ve entered another time. But they’re back in colonial New England, where they meet a healer named Tamar—and suddenly Holly is caught in the crossfire between dueling witches. Forced to keep their time-traveling a secret, the three siblings race to save Tamar and their town.
Lavender-Green Magic is the 5th book in the Magic Sequence, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Lore of the Witch World
Andre Norton
First published September 1980, this is a collection of previously published stories, plus a new novelette, by Andre Norton with an introduction by C. J. Cherryh.
Contents:
Spider Silk (1976)
Sand Sister (1979)
Falcon Blood (1979)
Legacy from Sorn Fen (1973)
Sword of Unbelief (1977)
The Toads of Grimmerdale (1973)
Changeling (1980)
Introduction by C. J. Cherryh
Spider Silk • na • Flashing Swords! #3, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1976
Sand Sister • na • Heroic Fantasy, ed. Gerald W. Page & Hank Reinhardt, DAW, 1979
Falcon Blood • ss • Amazons!, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, DAW, 1979
Legacy from Sorn Fen • ss • Garan the Eternal, FPCI, 1973
Sword of Unbelief • nv • Swords against Darkness #2, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1977
Toads of Grimmerdale • na • Flashing Swords! #2, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1974
Changeling • nv
Cover art for the DAW editions is by Michael Whelan.
(na=novella, a short novel less than 40,000 words. nv=novelette, a novel-like story less than about 17,000 words.)
Magic in Ithkar 3
Andre Norton
The stories:
"Three Knives in Ithkar" by Gareth Bloodwine - A somber story of an apprentice herbalist who falls in obsessively in love with a pretty shill for a knife-throwing booth.
"Were-Sisters" by Ann R. Brown - Two sisters who happen to be werewolves bake yummy deer-meat pastries for the opening of the Ithkar Fair. Unfortunately, another baker has a grudge against them.
"The Magic Carpet" by James Clark - A carpet seller has a bad day at the Fair when an item of his merchandise floats. The punishment for magicking sales goods is rather severe in Ithkar.
"The Amiable Assassin" by A.C. Crispin - When a young guard, who also works in his mother's laundry talks about 'taking care of dirty laundry' in an alehouse, he is mistaken for an assassin.
"Guardians of the Secret" by Ginger Curry and Monika Conroy - I have problems with stories with lines like "Night was squatting once again upon Ithkar" or "Dawn was a vampire lover kissing the slumbering city awake." At any rate, an old perfumer passes on a world-shattering secret (which we never learn) to her young successor (who immediately turns old and ugly).
"The Beggar and His Cat" by Gene DeWeese - A beggar indulges in a long monologue about his cat, who may or may not be magical.
"Flarrin Red-chin" by M. Coleman Easton - A young woman's dowsing talent manifests itself in a rather unusual fashion.
"Covenant" by P.M. Griffin - An artist and a warrior take on the dark god, Thotharn.
"What Little Girls Are Made Of" by T.S. Huff - A hugely popular candy-maker makes her annual trip to the Fair and is forced to bargain with a follower of Thotharn for her granddaughter's honor. The story's good except for a slightly unbelievable ending.
"Eyes of the Seer" by Caralyn Inks and Georgia Miller - A blind seer loses his gift when a harlot steals his 'amulet.' A tinsmith who wants to apprentice himself to the seer promises to make him a new one.
"Fiddler Fair" by Mercedes Lackey - A girl disguised as a boy tries out for the Bardic Guild. When she wins the trial and announces her true sex, the Bards promptly smash her instruments and kick her out of the tent. However, this isn't the end of the story.
"The Silverlord" by Morgan LLywelyn - A genetically enhanced white stallion catches the eye of a beautiful race rider. Will they find true love across the species barrier?
"SunDark in Ithkar" by S. Lee Rouland - A girl with the magical gift of being able to predict the positions of astronomical objects wants to apprentice herself to an astrologer. Meanwhile the priests of Thotharn (he really has a big presence in this volume) plot to use an eclipse to acquire more followers.
"Hair's Breath" by Susan Shwartz - Two married traders and their baby are kidnapped by underwater demons. Fortunately, the husband is a dream-singer with an unusual harp.
"The Singing Eggs" by Kiel Stuart - A down-on-her-luck portrait painter acquires a new apprentice, a batch of singing eggs, and an important client. So, what's the catch?
Moon Called
Andre Norton
High Priestess Thora armed with the power of the moon joins with the brave warrior, Makil, to fight against the evil of the Dark Lord
Moon of Three Rings (Moon Magic, #1)
Andre Norton
Librarian note: H-33 60¢ on the front cover. The spine has 020-08033-060 which at some point a book seller translated into 0-441-08033-2 when they added this book to Amazon and other sites. The 1967 date of publication is from Tuck.
At the time of the Moon of Three Rings, the galactic trade ship Lydis lands on the planet Yiktor. On Yiktor, Krip Vorlund, a junior crew member, seeks amusement at a beast show. He is strangely attracted to the owner of the show animals, a delicate and mysterious woman, Maelen. When Vorlund is kidnapped by a Combine seeking to control the planet, he learns too well the nature of Maelen's sorcery; she transforms him into a wolfish creature, in which form he retains his own soul.
Between them -- Krip and Maelen -- they spin an eerie tale of dreams and visions, of metamorphoses and extrasensory perception, of timelessness and limitlessness...
Night of Masks (Dipple #2)
Andre Norton
Horrible scarred in the war that destroyed his childhood, Nik was doomed to a miserable existence in the slums of the planet Korwar. He had long since given up hope of ever again having human features--or a normal life.
Then a mysterious spacer offered him a new face. All Nik had to do in exchange was pose as a boy's fantasy hero and spirit the boy offworld.
But lost in the wasteland of the strange planet Dis, Nik learned of the evil plans intended for his young charge. Suddenly he found his dreams threatened--and his strength and loyalty strained to their limits.
On Wings of Magic (Witch World Series 3: The Turning, #3)
Andre Norton
Struggling with the decimation of their witch guardians when an invasion by Pagar of Karsten threatens their home world, the people of Estcarp find their only hope for survival in a young scribe who challenges the evil Hounds of Alizon. Reprint.
Ordeal In Otherwhere (Forerunner, #2)
Andre Norton
"Fans of Andre Norton are familiar with the planet Warlock and its shimmering, powerful witches, the matriarchal Wyverns, who rule by dreams. ORDEAL IN OTHERWHERE goes back to this familiar science-fiction setting, this time with young Charis Nordholm, who has been sold as a slave to a trader wishing to buy cloth from these strange creatures.
"Charis soon finds herself not only in contact with the Wyverns, but also mixed up in a mysterious internecine warfare she does not understand...
"Norton's books have earned a special place for being highly imaginative and beautifully written." - Anniston Star (from the back cover)
Quag Keep
Andre Norton
Quag Keep was the first novel based on the world of Dungeons & Dragons by the legendary grand mistress of SF/Fantasy, Andre Norton. Once, they were role-playing gamers in our world.
They came from different places and different backgrounds.
Now they're summoned together by some magical force...to a land that mirrors the games they used to play.
Quag Keep
Can they band together to unlock the secret of their summoning--and rescue from the legendary Quag Keep the person who may be able to return them home?
Ralestone Luck
Andre Norton
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Red Hart Magic (The Magic Series, #6)
Andre Norton
Book 6 of 6: The Magic Sequence
From the New York Times–bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction: New stepsiblings Chris and Nan have time-traveling adventures in an old English inn.
What is the magic of the Red Hart Inn, an exquisite model of an old English inn, that triggers three strange and exciting adventures back into earlier centuries for its two owners?
When his father marries her mother, Chris Fitton and Nan Mallory--both twelve--are thrust into a new life. While their parents are enjoying an extended honeymoon, Chris and Nan must live with Aunt Elizabeth, attend new schools, and worst of all, be civil to one another. They're certain that their future is bleak--until Chris's visit to the Salvation Army store. It is there that he finds the model of the Red Hart Inn, a structure that holds a strange allure for them both. That night, Chris and Nan find themselves in the same dream--living inside the Red Hart Inn in seventeenth century England. Chris and Nan, both lonely and unhappy, must test their courage through three tumultuous periods of English history in this skillfully written time-warp fantasy. And when danger threatens, they must set aside their differences and find a way to work together--before it's too late.... What they learn about themselves and each other enables them to live more fully in their own time.
Red Hart Magic is the 6th book in The Magic Sequence, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen, #1)
Andre Norton
First of the "Solar Queen" adventures, originally published under the pseudonym "Andrew North". This is the second ace edition.
Scent of Magic (Five Senses, #3)
Andre Norton
Book 3: The Five Senses Set
An orphaned child and captive scullery maid, young Willadene possesses an uncanny ability to sense and understand the magical odors that pervade her world. It is this remarkable talent--or curse--that carries her far from the fetid kitchen into an apprenticeship with a revered herbalist and ultimately to the highest circle of the Ducal court. But there is depravity lurking within the castle's walls, inspiring brazen treacheries and usurpations--and a foul abduction as unthinkable as it is unexpected. Something horribly strange and forbidden has struck at the dawn of a new day of corruption and terror. And an innocent girl finds the heightened sense that has been her fortune is now drawing her down into a maelstrom of evil.
Shadow Hawk
Andre Norton
Shadow Hawk Shadowhawk Vintage Ace No 75991 (1971) paperback
Songsmith (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #9)
Andre Norton
Eydrth is a Master Songsmith...who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many--and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from the heart...
Andre Norton has been called "one of the most popular writers of our time" ( Publishers Weekly ) and has for over twenty-five years enchanted readers with the most famous and popular of her the enthralling Witch World. With bestseller A.C. Crispin, Norton has woven an eternal love story, filled with magic and wonder. Songsmith is the novel that Witch World fans have been waiting for--a shining jewel in the Witch World cosmos.
Sorceress of the Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #5)
Andre Norton
Kaththea the Sorceress called forth a power such as no longer existed on the distant planet known as the Witch World. It was a power so great that it could destroy all that she loved best--and might even prove to be a greater evil than the shadow itself. Yet there could be no other choice for Kaththea than to call on Hilarion in the death-naming. For she was a witch deprived of power and she needed a guide to regain her lost skills and her lost world. There was only this ancient one, the opener of gates, with force mighty enough.....
Spell of the Witch World (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #2)
Andre Norton
Somewheres in the infinite spaces beyond the galaxy we know lies a planet with a strange affinity to the Earth. For Earthling blood had crossed that incomprehensible vastness to mingle with the human-but-alien civilizations of that untracked - world... Earthling blood brought through an ancient door - set down between the world in times unknown.
Andre NortonÆs marvelous novels of the Witch World, so distant that the very laws of space and time differ from those that govern our cosmic sector, have been compared by critics to the work of J. R. R. Tolkien of LORD OF THE RINGS fame, and equally to the great interplanetary adventures of a Clifford Simak or an Edgar Rice Burroughs.
But there is nothing "copy-cat" in Andre NortonÆs work - and in SPELL OF THE WITCH WORLD we have a fantasy-reading treat that compares favorably to the greatest of them all.
Here is the seventh book of the Witch World saga -with all the color and super-science imagery of those that have gone before. Here you will meet the twins, Elys, the witch-sister, and Elyn, the warrior-brother - and the pact that drew both into perils beyond the laws of our everyday stars.
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First DAW printing.
Cover Artist: Jack Gaughan
Star Born
Andre Norton
The saga begun in The Stars Are Ours! continues as the growing human colony settles onto their new home world only to discover an unforeseen enemy. . . Generations after landing on the planet Astra, humankind is still working alongside the friendly aquatic native merpeople to survive and thrive. But young Dalgard Nordis is yearning to see more. Taking his man-journey, he sets out to find and explore the ruins of a city rumored to have belonged to the Others—the mysterious beings whom the merpeople despise and fear. With this feat of bravery he hopes to prove his worth to the Council of Free Men. But instead his courage will prove costly, as the long-unknown Others are on their way back to the city. Even more daunting is the news that a starship has just arrived on Astra, carrying those who forced the colonists to flee centuries the people of Earth.
Star Gate
Andre Norton
When Kincar s'Rud, of mixed Gorthian and Star Lord blood, followed the Star Lords through the shimmering gate that led to alternate universes, he found himself on a Gorth entirely different from the world he had known.
At first the Gorthians appeared to be the same, but his former friends turned out to be his enemies. For they were the people his friends might have been, had they made different choices at crucial moments in their lives.
And soon Kincar and his real allies would have to confront their own evil, might-have-been selves...
Star Guard
Andre Norton
A novel of war and intrigue in outer space sees earthmen as hired mercenaries in the year 3956 A.D
Star Ka'at
Andre Norton
Two intriguing stray cats communicate with Jim and Elly Mae, convincing them that the cats are aliens from another planet.
Star Soldiers (Central Control, #1-2)
Andre Norton
Star Guard 1953. Dominant aliens allow humans to the stars only as mercenaries. Swordsman Kana and his comrades, betrayed by Central Command, march across hostile planet Fronn.
Star Rangers 1953, The Last Planet 1955. 4K years later, telepath Kartr and Patrollers crash on a beautiful unknown yet familiar world and seek the source of a beacon to safety.
Storm Over Warlock (Forerunner, #1)
Andre Norton
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike.
Storms of Victory (Witch World Series 3: The Turning, #1)
Andre Norton
Contains the two stories, "Port of Dead Ships" and "Seakeep."
In the wake of their defeat of Pagin of Karsten, the Witches of Estcarp await news of those who have been lost or missing since the battle, and a young Sulcar woman awakens to her Power only to do battle with an ancient evil.
Tales of the Witch World 1
Andre Norton
An array of fantasy tales, includes works by Norton, Robert Bloch, Elizabeth Scarborough, A. C. Crispin, Ardath Mayhar, and Robert E. Vardeman.
Introduction / Andre Norton --
Of the shaping of Ulm's heir / by Andre Norton --
Heir apparent / by Robert Bloch --
Fenneca / by Wilanne Schneider Belden --
Bloodspell / by A.C. Crispin --
The white road / by Charles de Lint --
Cat and the other / by Marylois Dunn --
Oath-bound / by Pauline Griffin --
Of ancient swords and evil mist / by James R. Heidbrink --
Nine words in winter / by Caralyn Inks --
Were-hunter / by Mercedes Lackey --
Neither rest nor refuge / by Ardath Mayhar --
To rebuild the eyrie / by Sasha Miller --
Milk from a maiden's breast / by Elizabeth Scarborough --
Night hound's moon / by Mary H. Schaub --
Isle of illusion / by Carol Severance --
Green in High Hallack / by Kiel Stuart --
The road of dreams and death / by Robert E. Vardeman --
Biographical notes
Tales of the Witch World 3
Andre Norton
A third collection of tales, set in Andre Norton's magical Witch World, features the contributions of Marta Randall, Patricia A. McKillip, A.C. Crispin, Patricia C. Wrede, and other noted fantasy writers
The Beast Master (Beast Master / Hosteen Storm, #1)
Andre Norton
Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm Navaho commando and master of beasts is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met.On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over but was it?“Miss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.” The New York Times Book Review
The Crossroads of Time
Andre Norton
When Blake Walker foiled a murder attempt on one of his neighbors he somehow found himself drafted into a frantic chase for a dangerous criminal - through the almost infinite levels of alternate Earths.
It was a chase that would take him through level upon level of unknown dangers in search of a ruthless genius who had found our Earth the perfect place to begin his series of conquests.
If Walker succeeded, he would save Earth. If he failed, his homeworld could be enslaved, and he could be trapped on an alien Earth!
The Crystal Gryphon (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #5)
Andre Norton
When Ulm is invaded, a young boy who carries the curse of his ancestors discovers a crystal gryphon which helps him save the kingdom
The Elvenbane (Halfblood Chronicles, #1)
Andre Norton
Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.
The Forerunner Factor
Andre Norton
Two Andre Norton novels in her Forerunner series featuring young alien/human hybrid Simsa, collected for the first time in one volume. A heroic young woman seeks her origins as she comes of age on worlds of peril and alien mystery.
Forerunner :
On the ancient planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization—the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different, with iridescent blue-black skin and a telepathic bond with her bat-like zorsal. When her mentor dies, her future looks bleak—until Thom, a star ranger, arrives and leads Simsa on a new path that takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation, which will change her life, and perhaps galactic civilization itself, forever.
The Second Venture :
Simsa has been captured by starfaring humans intent on discovering the secrets of the Forerunners. With the aid of her pet zorsal, Simsa escapes her captors and crash lands on another world touched by ancient Forerunner civilization. Now Simsa must battle the spirit within her that seeks to transform her into something utterly inhuman. But the ancient Forerunners, however scientifically advanced, have not reckoned with the courage of this young woman who is determined to keep her freedom and write her own destiny among the stars.
At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Called "a superb talent"" by The New York Times, Andre Norton was a legend in science fiction, and one of our greatest storytellers. She wrote science fiction novels of very high quality for nearly five decades, beginning with the now-classic novel Star Man's Son in 1952. Many of today's top writers, including C.J. Cherryh and Joan D. Vinge, have cited her as a primary influence on their own work. She was Guest of Honor at the 1989 World Science Fiction Convention, and received the Grand Master award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Fantasy Convention. Astoundingly prolific, with over thirty books in her celebrated "Witch World" series alone, she introduced three generations of SF readers to SF and fantasy, both through her critically acclaimed YA novels and her adult works, and remains today as one of the most popular authors in both fields.
The Gate of the Cat (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #8)
Andre Norton
American Kelsie McBlair falls through a gate in an ancient stone ring in the Scottish Highlands while rescuing a wounded wild cat. She and the cat and newborn kittens are besieged on the other side of the Gate by a Dark Rider and a pack of skeletal hounds. When a dying Witch bequeaths her true name and her jewel of power, Kelsie finds herself compelled to take up her sorcerous mission into the heart of Escore, the Green Valley, where magic lies in "trembling balance between the forces of Light and those of the Dark."
The Jargoon Pard (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #3)
Andre Norton
The heir to the House of Car Do Prawn who possesses a belt with strange powers, is thrown into a conflict between the forces of good and evil
The Key of the Keplian (Witch World Series 4: Secrets of the Witch World, #1)
Andre Norton
All of Witch World knows to fear the hated, fire-eyed Keplian horses who lure riders to their deaths. All that is, save for one young Native American girl new to Witch World, who rescues a Keplian mare and her foal and discovers an awesome truth--the Keplians were created to serve light, not darkness, and to ride with humans. This is the first in a new trilogy.
The Prince Commands
Andre Norton
Raised in America, Michael Karl learns at eighteen that he is heir to the throne of Morvania, a Balkan kingdom threatened by revolution and by the sinister Werewolf, a mountain marauder of more than human reputation whoe followers may be less than human.
The moment he arrives in Morvania, Michael Karl is plunged into seething plot and counterplot, and deadly danger. His death would greatly benefit some very powerful adversaries.
Michael embarks on a desperate, thrilling scheme. If it succeeds, the future of Morvania will be changed for the good.
If it fails, Michael will die. . .
The Stars Are Ours (Pax/Astra, Bk. 1)
Andre Norton
Norton, Andre, Stars Are Ours, The
The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1)
Andre Norton
The White Jade Fox
Andre Norton
Saranna Stowell was sent to Tiensin, a manor near Baltimore, to act as governess for a young relative. She soon discovered that there was an impenetrable mystery hidden at the manor which seemed connected to treasures collected by the last owner, a sea captain trading in the Orient. The mysterious happenings seemed to both threaten and protect her, but she knew she was entirely threatened by the implacably evil enemy she found inside.
This gothic tale from the beloved science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton combines I Ching and the lore of old China to add an occult dimension to a vividly detailed nineteenth-century American setting.
The Works of Andre Norton (12 books)
Andre Norton
The Zero Stone
Andre Norton
Paperback edition of Andre Norton title
Three Against the Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #3)
Andre Norton
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST...
The offspring of Simon Tregarth, half earthling, half witch-brood, realized that they alone could perceive the four directions - for everyone else, there was no East!
It was a blank in the mind, a blank in legend and history.
And when new menaces threatened, the Tregarths realized that in that mental barrier there lay the key to all their world... somewhere to the unknown eastward must lie the sorcery that had secretly molded their destinies!
Trey of Swords (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #6)
Andre Norton
The past and the future merge as THE LOST BATTLE OF WITCH WORLD is fought again - but this time, it must be won! For as ancient heroes walk again by day, so do ancient evils - and it is up to Yonan the weakling, and Crytha, the untrained witch-girl, to halt the Forces of Darkness by the power of the SWORD OF ICE, the SWORD OF SHADOW... and one sword more.
Voorloper
Andre Norton
Norton, Andre, Voorloper
Ware Hawk (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #7)
Andre Norton
Tirtha was the last of the line of Hawkholme. Men who hated those of the Old Race had destroyed her clan, and she alone lived to carry the burden of her family's destiny.Driven by powerful magic to return to her ancestral home, she set out into the twisted, ruined mountains of Eastcarp. Her hired guide was a Falconer, a man of an ancient warrior race who was also alone in the world, and falconless.But a Dark One was determined to foil their mission -- and only together could they hope to stand against its awesome powers.
Warlock (Forerunner, #1-3)
Andre Norton
Andre Norton called by Time the "Grande Dame of science fiction," has created one of the most memorable worlds in SF in the planet humans call Warlock, secretly ruled by the matriarchal Wyverns, an alien race of witches who are masters of mental illusions and dreams. In a sweeping generational saga, the story of Warlock is told by three humans:
Shann Lontee was the lowest-ranking member of an exploration team sent to the newly discovered planet Warlock. When the insectile Throgs attacked the base, only he and two trained wolverines escaped. Hunted by the Throgs, he and the wolverines had to survive without technology on an alien world. Then he discovered the Wyvern, who were his only hope-if they weren't an even more deadly menace than the Throgs . . .
Charis Nordholm was sold into slavery by the outlaw colony on the planet Demeter. The trader, Jogon, who holds her contract, was on his way to Warlock to trade with the Wyvern. But the alien witches had ominous plans of their own, and both Charis and Shann Lantee found themselves fighting for their lives . . .
Ziantho's mental powers had made her a valuable asset to the interstellar criminals she worked for. Then she encountered a gem of ancient power, an artifact made by the vanished prehistoric race known as the Forerunners, and stole it. Pursued both by the stone's owners and the agents of the Patrol, she fled across the galaxy and encountered Ris Lantee, o man from the planet Warlock, who alone could solve the powerful gem's mystery ....
Warlock of the Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #4)
Andre Norton
Classic Fantasy Series. "Kyllan the warrior, Kaththea the untried witch, Kemoc, whose powers could surpass all others- these are the half-Earthling, half witch-brood family menaced by the sorceries of an unknown enemy. The burden of the struggle fell to Kemoc, who was forced to summon his untested powers in the battle to match the alien evil threatening the Witch World."
Web of the Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #2)
Andre Norton
Simon Tregarth, whose own Earthly prowess had won him a throne and a witch-wife in an alien world, knew that both triumphs were precarious as long as the super-science of Kolder held a foothold on that planet.
Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #1)
Andre Norton
Former secret agent, Simon Tregarth, is a desperate hunted man who turns to sorcery for courage and survival
Year of the Unicorn (Witch World Series 2, High Hallack Cycle, #1)
Andre Norton
There is a prequel called Horn Crown, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1183797.Horn_Crown
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels.Far from the besieged home of Simon and Jaelithe, in peaceful Norsdale, we meet Gillan, who longs to leave her dull life in a secluded country abbey. But when her wish comes true, she finds more than a little adventure. As she ventures out, not only is her life in danger, but also the power that lies within her, waiting to be discovered.
Yurth Burden
Andre Norton
In the world of Zacar, where two races co-exist in deep hatred, a young girl must follow the Call which every Yurth answers but may not survive
Zarsthor's Bane (Witch World Series 2: High Hallack Cycle, #4)
Andre Norton
Brixia, once the lady of a Hall in High Hallack, and her companion, the cat Uta, while scavenging for their living in the deserted Dales, are drawn into Waste where Light and Dark Magic still exist, in search of a power object, Zarsthor's Bane. While fending off an attack by predators, Brixia discovers a place of Green Magic.
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