Bøger af Andre Norton

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A collection of early science fiction stories written by women before and during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featuring stories by: Sophie Wenzel EllisAndre Norton (writing as Andrew North)Marion Zimmer BradleyMari WolfPauline AshwellLyn VenableEvelyn E. SmithLeigh RichmondTherese WindserHelen M. Urban

There were no mountains in this section of Sargol-the highest elevations being rounded hills tightly clothed with the same ten-foot grass which covered the plains. From the Queen's observation ports, one could watch the constant ripple of the grass so that the planet appeared to be largely clothed in a shimmering, flowing carpet. To the west were the seas-stretches of shallow water so cut up by strings of islands that they more resembled a series of salty lakes. And it was what was to be found in those seas which had lured the Solar Queen to Sargol.

The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet features Dane Thorson, a young man fortunate enough to land a job on the Free Trader ship, the "Solar Queen." Plying their trade among the stars, Free Traders visit planets-known and unknown-in search of profit. Captain Gaelic and the ship's medic, Tau, are invited to Khatka, a world settled by African refugees, to help unravel the secret of a witch doctor's growing power. Dane is invited along as cover, much to his delight. Khatka has been set up as an exclusive hunting preserve for the rich. With mysterious, possibly supernatural deaths at the hands of otherworldly creatures, disappearing equipment, and a witch doctor's "magic" (not to mention poachers!), it may be more than the crew of the Solar Queen can handle!

Andre Norton's classic work of time travel science fiction, the first in her The Time Traders Series. Seeking to avoid psychiatric procedures, criminal Ross Murdock volunteers for a secret military project, which develops into a time-traveling conflict between the forces to the West, the "Reds" (i.e., the Soviets or Russians), and an alien species known as the "Baldies". The action traverses the modern era, ancient Britain, and the Bronze Age."The Time Traders" was followed in Norton's series by: Galactic Derelict, The Defiant Agents, Key Out of Time, Firehand, Echoes in Time, and Atlantis Endgame. Andre Norton was the pen name of Andre Alice Norton, also known as Alice Mary Norton, and by the pen names Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was a trailblazing female author, famous for her science fiction, but also writing in other genres. She was the first woman to be inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and held numerous other awards and firsts.

American scientists are investigating the fact that Russian scientists have discovered how to transport themselves back in time to learn long-forgotten secrets of the past. That is why young Ross Murdock, above average in intelligence, but a destructively independent nonconformist, finds himself on a clandestine government project at a secret base in the Arctic. The very qualities that make him a menace in civilized society are valuable traits in a man who must successfully act the part of a merchant trader of the Beaker people during the Bronze Age. When they are transferred by a time machine to the remote Baltic region where the Russian post is located, Ross and his partner Ashe are swept into a fantastic action-filled adventure involving Russians, superstitious prehistoric men, and the aliens of a lost galactic civilization that demand every ounce of the Americans' courage.

Stories and poems from one of the greatest imaginations in literary historyEach year, Garner s troupe makes its way to Ithkar Fair. The actors charm the crowd, winning applause and lavish reward, but none captures the audience s imagination like the yellow-eyed, silver-haired girl whose performance conceals pain that few can understand. She is a Quintka her coloring makes that plain and yet even Garner, who has seen more of the world than anyone, can unlock the secrets of her unknown father, who left her mother to sacrifice herself to save the child. As she passes her seventeenth birthday, the mystery of her past drives her into danger, as she fights to find answers that no mortal should possess. Swamp Dweller is a classic Andre Norton story lush, thrilling, and impossible to put down. Like the others in this invaluable volume, it is more than mere escapism it is an entrancing look into another world."

Drafted Into the Army of Time The USA's greatest adversary has gone back in time and discovered a source of advanced technology. We have only one chance: send American agents back in time, find the ancient source, and take it down!

1866 - only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him-his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule-he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie. Drew had come west from Kentucky to find a father he had thought dead until the year before. Would he be accepted by a father who abandoned him years before or would a deadly showdown between them be the result?

Time agents Gordon Ashe and Ross Murdoch are again on the hunt for alien artifacts, this time on a world where most of the surface is water. Traveling to the planet's past, they find themselves caught in struggle between rival cultures waged with a mixture of technology and magic, and behind it all are the alien spacemen that have been their foes since the beginning.

In this continuation of Andre Norton's Time Trader series, a spaceship carrying modern day Apaches is sent in an attempt to colonize one of the worlds revealed by the time agents. But when the ship crashes, the colonists find they must fight not only a hostile world, but also their cold war enemies, for survival on their new home.

Cold War opponents battle for the possession of the artifacts of an alien space faring race in a search across prehistoric Europe. In the first book of one of Norton's best known series, agents from the modern world disguise themselves as bronze age traders to discover the source of technological secrets suddenly appearing in the arsenals of the Eastern powers. What they find is the remnants of an alien civilization that spanned the galaxy.

Stories By Erik Frank Russell, H. B. Fyfe, Raymond Z. Gallun, And Many Others.

Travis Fox, once the unwilling captive of the runaway spaceship Galactic Derelict, has volunteered - eagerly this time - for the mission to colonize Topaz. But when he and his fellow Apaches find themselves reverting to the ways their ancient warrior-race, just as the expedition from Russia has been transformed into a Mongol Horde encamped across the mountains, it becomes clear that more than their own lives is at stake. "The conflicts of these groups with each other, with nature on a hostile planet, with Russian puppet-masters and with an even more dangerous force from beyond the stars make a fine heroic narrative, imaginative, inventive, told with the compelling pulse of the true storyteller."

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Civil War novel set in the western theater during the final days of the war. As the story opens, the protagonist, Drew Rennie, has been serving as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command for two years, having left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his mother's runaway marriage to a Texan.

- This second book in the classic Solar Queen series is richly illustrated to enhance the readers' enjoyment. Sci-fi fans will love this new edition the Solar Queen space opera novels by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America grandmaster Andres Norton (A/K/A Andrew North). This is the second book in the series, Plague Ship. Here you'll find the ongoing adventures of Dane Thorson, Cargomaster Apprentice on the Solar Queen, a Free Trader spaceship. Dane joins the crew as they ply the outlying planets with need-to-have merchandise while being called an unlucky "plague ship." With nearly two-dozen new illustrations.

Aided By A Polynesian Girl And Two Telepathic Dolphins, Time Agents Probe The Past On The Deserted Planet Hawaika And Are Catapulted Back Ten Thousand Years Among The Battles Of Prehistoric Races.

Civil war buffs and historical fiction fans alike will enjoy Andre Norton's Ride Proud, Rebel! This detailed and emotionally resonant account focuses on the personal sacrifices and astounding courage of rebel soldiers in the waning days of the Confederacy.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "The Time Traders," is one of author Andre Norton's best novels. It asks the question, can time be conquered? To test this theory, Ross Murdoch finds himself transplanted to the North Pole to participate in a top secret project. It's suspected that Russian scientists have discovered how to transport themselves back to prehistoric times in an effort to learn long forgotten secrets. Ross successfully assumes the role of a trader during the Bronze Age but soon finds himself up against not only Russians, but aliens from a far off galaxy.

Ancient World Is Contrasted With The Modern World In A New Approach To The Time-Transfer Theme.

Time Agents Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe, aided by a Polynesian girl and her team of telepathic dolphins, probe the mystery of the sea-planet men have named Hawaika. Its cities and civilizations have vanished, but our agents are snatched back through a Time Gate and marooned in the midst of the struggle for power that must have destroyed the planet. "The sweep of imagination and brilliance of detail in the author's previous space-time novels, render Andre Norton a primary talent among writers of science fiction" - Virginia Kirkus. This adventure in the watery, grotesque world of Hawaika is further evidence of the author's mastery. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "Storm Over Warlock" is one of author Andre Norton's best works. He was alone on a hostile planet. The Throg task force moved against the Terran survey camp just a few minutes after dawn. They struck entirely without warning, and with a deadly precision that seemed to argue that the aliens had fully reconnoitered the area and made detailed preparations for the attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with an unnerving and 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 below. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the men attached to the Terran camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in a strange and hostile world. The only human survivor, and the prey of aliens from outer space and aliens on the ground alike.

Vye Lansor, an orphan down on his luck until Ras Hume arrives, bringing danger and adventure with him. Vye quickly finds himself cast as the pawn in a complex plot to defraud an inter-galactic trading combine by reprogramming him to believe he is the long-lost heir of the company's fortunes, the sole survivor of a crash on the newly discovered jungle planet of Jumala. As he fights to regain control of his mind and uproot the false memories planted in him, Vye must also struggle with a powerful alien intelligence that seeks to force him and Ras Hume into a valley of alien mantraps from which no living thing has ever escaped.

After an unusual mission trading catnip to the catlike Salariki of planet Sargol, Dane Thorson and other low-ranking crew members of the Solar Queen watch in horror as the rest of their crew falls mysteriously ill. Only the four men left standing¿and maybe the Captain¿s bizarre pet Hoobat¿can save their ship from drifting through space for all time, condemned as a plague ship.Originally published by Gnome Press in 1956 under the name Andrew North, Plague Ship is the second installment in the Solar Queen series of science fiction novels by Andre Norton, the male pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton.

This sequel to The Stars Are Ours! was first published in 1957 by the World Publishing Company. It continues the tale of the humans who escaped an anti-intellectual Earth and founded a colony on Astra, a planet across the galaxy. Astra has a vibrant, intelligent species, as well as the ruins of a much older civilization.Norton weaves two stories together by alternating points of view with each chapter. We follow a 4th generation colonist, as well as a mechanic-pilot newly arrived on Astra as a member of a research mission from a recently revived Earth.Each is on a journey of discovery, and they find themselves allied with opposing sides of an ongoing war between two intelligent, indigenous species.

A brutal force of insectoid aliens called Throgs effortlessly destroy a Terran survey camp on Warlock, a planet seemingly devoid of intelligent life that both Throgs and Terrans hope to colonize. Two Terrans who survive the enemy attack must go on the run, weaponless and with only a pair of wolverines as their companions. These survivors are driven to an unknown destination by dreams so powerful that they may be visions; but as they get closer to their goal, crossing brutal landscapes, tumultuous seas, and fog-filled caverns, the two find themselves losing control over their actions and unsure of what is real in this strange and hostile world.

"Ralestone Luck" by André Norton is a novel set in 18th century England that follows the story of two orphaned brothers, Kerith and Giles St. Michel, who discover that they are the last surviving members of the Ralestone family, a wealthy and influential dynasty with a long history of political power and intrigue. As the brothers try to uncover the secrets of their family's past and reclaim their inheritance, they find themselves caught up in a dangerous game of political maneuvering and assassination attempts. With the help of a loyal servant and a band of smugglers, the brothers navigate treacherous waters as they seek to expose the corruption and greed of their enemies and restore the honor of the Ralestone name. Along the way, Kerith and Giles also encounter a group of Romany travelers and are drawn into their mystical world of magic and superstition. As the brothers fight to reclaim their rightful place in society and unravel the mysteries of their family's past, they must also confront their own inner demons and come to terms with the true meaning of family, loyalty, and love. Overall, "Ralestone Luck" is an exciting and engaging adventure story that combines elements of historical fiction, mystery, and romance, and explores themes of identity, justice, and the power of the human spirit.

The space race has gone interstellar! Western and Soviet agents vie for control of the strategic alien world of Topaz and the lost technology it conceals.Agent Travis Fox awakens on Topaz after a crash landing, his memories a confusing mix of his own and those of a 19th-century Apache ancestor. His fellow agents have all been subject to the same experiment, some more thoroughly entangled in the past than others. Driven by his present-day memories and aided by a pair of mutant coyotes, he sets out to explore the landscape and finds Mongols of the Golden Horde who have escaped from the Russians¿ colony. Despite suspicion and scrambled memories on both sides¿and a Russian mind-control device¿Fox is determined to unite the Apache and Mongol tribes against their common enemy and keep Topaz¿ secrets from falling into Russian hands.The third novel in Andre Norton¿s Time Traders series continues her tale of the Cold War expanded across time and space through the relics of a lost alien empire. It was originally published in 1962 by The World Publishing Company.

Voodoo Planet is the third in a series of novels featuring the adventures of Dane Thorson and the spaceship Solar Queen, written in the 1950s by Andre Norton under her male pseudonym, Andrew North. In this installment, Dane and his shipmates land on the safari planet Khatka, settled by African refugees of an atomic race war on Earth. They soon face off with a witch doctor seeking to take over the planet.This short work was originally published as a double title paperback by Ace Books in 1959 along with a reprint of Plague Ship, the second novel in the series. Norton followed it with a sequel ten years later and then co-authored a revival of the series in the 1990s.