Andre Norton books

All Cats Are Gray (2000)

A short, in fact it qualifies more as a short story than most anything else, quick read. Interestingly enough, the fact that all Cats are gray has nothing to do with the color of the cat, but the fact that they see in gray scale. Still it was a wonderfully fun read and is going to lead me to read...

Three Hands for Scorpio (2007)

I have to admit that I really didn't like this book.The idea sounded really cool. I hadn't read any Andre Norton before, but since she's one of the preeminent fantasy writers of all time, I wanted to give her a try. However, it turns out Three Hands for Scorpio was her final book, written when sh...

Red Hart Magic (1982)

I accidentally read this last book in the series before the other two (gasp!) but I don't think it makes a difference since they don't seem to have any discernible connection running through them in terms of continuity.Once again, the magic in this book is ...inscrutable. Norton doesn't bother to...

Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction (1973)

Catseye (1984)

Troy Horan lives in the Dipple, where the refugees of the war were dumped -- and left when the peace treaty signed away their worlds. His father had enlisted in the war, and his mother died when the Big Cough struck. Troy is still trying to eke out a living as casual labor, rather than sign a c...

Fur Magic (2006)

This is typical Andre Norton’s coming of age Science Fiction Books. It is about a young boy named Cory, who has left the state of Florida When his dad goes to the air rescue unit in Vietnam, and his aunt Lucy went to assist her grandmother recover from her operation in San Francisco. Rather than ...

Star Born (2007)

Star Born is the exciting sequel to The Star Are Ours. After a nuclear was, a small band of Free Scientists breaks free of the Dark Age being imposed on the shattered Earth by Pax. In a sleeper starship some fity humans escape across space to a world they name Astra to disappear from the pages ...

The Warding of Witch World (1998)

Wow, Andre hauled out all the old stories and characters from Estcarp, Escore, the Dales, High Hallack, and Arvon for this book. It's really like three individual shorter stories with a framework to hold them all together.Am also going to have to go back and read the first two books of the Secret...

Elvenborn (2003)

In this long-awaited new novel in The Halfblood Chronicles, fantasy greats Norton and Lackey tell the enthralling story of the reclusive elvenlord Kyrtian, who emerges as a hero in a world torn by politics and war. When his cousin, Aelmarkin, tries to prove that Kyrtian is unfit to run his estate...

Star Soldiers (2002)

I enjoyed this book and found it to be a relatively fast read. Star Soldiers is actually an omnibus of two books set in the same universe -- Star Guard and Star Rangers. The first book is set some time after Earth has ventured into space and made contact with the rest of the galaxy. It turns ou...

Wraiths of Time (1992)

This book is one of the reasons I kept reading Norton even after I began to realize her (not particularly thickly disguised) cruelty.I had never heard of Meroe before I read this book, and it led me to further research on the subject. I've always had great respect for Norton's knowledge of the b...

The Time Traders (2012)

The first of a series, Time Traders feels like two novellas forced into one package. The first "novella" features the protagonist's induction into a covert operation into humankind's early history in order to discover artifacts left by aliens in a van Daniken-like scenario. There is a cold war ov...

Spell of the Witch World (1977)

The cover blurb of my copy of Spell of the Witch World is deceptive. After three paragraphs of effusive – but general – praise and comparison to Tolkien, the final one explains “[h]ere you will meet the twins, Elys, the witch-sister, and Elyn, the warrior-brother – and the pact that drew both int...

Star Hunter (2006)

This is an interesting story which could be developed much better. As it is, the ending feels too abrupt and the whole story rushed. A hotshot pilot turned star hunter (think safari guide on inter-planet scale) holds a grudge against a wealthy family whose representative crippled him as a result ...

The Crystal Gryphon (1985)

The Crystal Gryphon is the story of Kerovan, heir to the throne of Ulmsdale, who, thanks to the circumstances and result of his birth, is set apart from the regular folk in the Dales. When Kerovan’s mother gave birth to him she did so sheltered in a ruin of the ‘Old Ones’, mysterious folk who onc...

Uncharted Stars (1983)

Uncharted Stars by Andre Norton Un charted Stars is the superior sequel to the Zero Stone and continues the adventures of Murdoc Jern, itinerant jewel dealer and his companion, Eet the mysterious mutant born from a ship’s cat. Eet is not merely a mutant but is the reincarnation of an alien from...

Return to Quag Keep (2006)

Many people might not know that Andre Norton wrote the first novel based in the Dungeons and Dragons Universe. That book was Quag Keep. Now Andre with role-playing icon Jean Rabe has returned to tell a new tale of those magically transported gamers in the fantasy realm that has become all too rea...

Year of the Unicorn (1977)

I'm going back and reviewing the actual editions I have. I'm pretty sure this is the first edition (at least the first Ace paperback edition). The cover art and internal art are credited to Jack Gaughan, who illustrated other books by Norton.My copy is in very poor shape--which is not uncommon ...

Sword In Sheath (1985)

Lavender-Green Magic (1975)

This book held true to the magic and wonder I remember from reading it as a child. Now revisiting it as an adult I am no less impressed and enchanted than I was as a child. Andre Norton is an excellent story teller, and although her writing reflects popular usages of the time, now, 40 years later...

The Prince Commands (1983)

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, Micha...

Ten Mile Treasure (1981)

Desert Adventure! When Christie Kimball and her family start a new life on a run-down Arizona ranch--once a bustling stagecoach stop in the Old West--their lives take an unexpected turn. Christie and her brother Neal have a secret plan to transform the old ranch into a money-making tourist attr...

The Shadow of Albion (1999)

Thrust into a volatile world where King Henry IX rules over the English Empire, America never revolted, and Napoleon Bonaparte marches unchecked across Europe, is young Sarah Cunningham, ripped from our history by magic and the machinations of the dying Duchess of Roxbury.Magically coerced into b...

Gryphon in Glory (1983)

Not bad. Of course there's a lot of romance-novel stuff which I ate up as a youngster, but it's got a nice variety of plot elements.Joisan and Kerovan are supposed to be married; but Kerovan has rejected her in order to protect her from the fate following his magic-imbued birth defect. Joisian ca...

Leopard In Exile (2002)

Under King Charles II, England's New World colonies are flourishing, as is France's colony Louisianne. Napolean is the dreaded Master of the European continent . . . And Sarah Cunningham, a woman from our own world, knows all too well what a difference this makes, for not long ago she was ripped ...

Scarface (1948)

Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton’s books have sold millions of copies worldwide. In Scarface, Andre Norton tells the story o...

Snow Shadow (1979)

Being able to step back into the past seemed like a wonderful stroke of luck for erica Jansen. Northanger Abbey was like another world. And her introduction to the family there had come from a charming man, Preston Donner. She felt very fortunate indeed. But from the moment she became a guest at...

The Jekyll Legacy (1991)

This novel gets off to a bit of a slow start, all over-long scene-setting sentences marching in a row in a rather self-conscious manner, but it soon hits its stride. Young Hester Lane, transplanted from Canada to England, finds herself face-to-face to with moral corruption and a troubling legacy....

Yurth Burden (1978)

This book evidently started out as a short story. Arguably, it should've remained a short story. The second part is effectively unrelated. It might as well have had different characters.The ghosts in this story are products of a terrible accident. Their disquietude is as irrational as the att...

Time Traders II: The Defiant Agents / Key Out of Time (2001)

LOST IN TIME Exploring space and time is a dangerous business, and no one knows this better than Time Agents Travis Fox and Ross Murdock. So when both men are stranded on far-off planets with no hope of rescue from Earth, they must rely on their wits and their training to survive. But survival ...

Wheel of Stars (1991)

If I've read this before, I have no recollection of it. I hope the blurb copy is as inaccurate as such descriptions often are.Well, yes and no. This book combines a fairly detailed and interesting description of winter in New England with a totally unnecessary superimposed (ancient) disaster/re...

Time Traders III: Echoes In Time / Atlantis Endgame (2002)

Science Fiction Book Club omnibus containing Echoes in Time and Atlantis Endgame.

Android at Arms (1987)

While flawed in many ways, this book moves from a slow start to a compelling ending.This is a story in two halves. The first half involves a disparate group of prisoners, coming to their senses on an abandoned, automated facility where it appears they've been kept so that they can be replaced by...

Moon Mirror (1989)

More than almost any other writer, Andre Norton knows how to thrill and delight her readers. In this collection, the "superb storyteller with a narrative pace all her own" (New York Times) does it again. Stories in this book: How Many Miles to Babylon? The Toymaker's Snuffbox Teddi Desirable L...

Breed to Come (1973)

This book was the first Sci-Fi book I ever read, and it hooked me on the genre. This book starts with a being searching for game, and finding evidence of an invader. He makes his way back to the caves of his clan, where he reports on the trouble. Unfortunately, this also happens to be the time of...

Horn Crown (1981)

Fulsome (and inaccurate) blurbs to the contrary, this is definitely not one of Norton's better books. Many of her books recycle common settings, themes, etc--this is one. That said, it's the only real novel set during the settlement of the Dales of High Hallack, and provides necessary prequel i...

Warlock of the Witch World (1978)

I toyed with giving Warlock of the Witch World (henceforth, WotWW) two stars because, compared to its predecessors, I didn’t enjoy reading it as much but the last third of the book and a conceit that I realized while writing this review redeemed it somewhat.Three Against the Witch World, the imme...

Octagon Magic (2005)

Came across this in the bunch of books from Half Price books that were donated for my students' summer reading. Lorrie comes to the US from Canada to live with her aunt when her grandmother becomes ill. Her aunt is a busy career woman, so leaves her to her own devices or, worse, to the care of a ...

Lost Lands of Witch World (2004)

In the 1960s Andre Norton's career took a fateful and important turn. Having written adventure science fiction for almost thirty years, she turned to something new, science-fantasy, with Witch World. This unique world of sorceresses and the many others who fight such adversaries as the Kolder, th...

Elvenblood (1996)

The second book in the Half-Blood chronicles begins slowly. It is a year after the revolt and we begin in a new location with new characters getting ready for a fete. If I heard anymore about choosing a dress for a function by an elven lady I may just have whipped that CD in the audio-book out th...

The Elvenbane (1993)

When I was a pre-teen I loved the book, now I recently re-read it and was a little disappointed. The world that the authors created is fascinating and although a lot of people complain about the intimate details about small and inconsequential things I am a glutton for description and world-build...

Imperial Lady (1990)

This is a fantasy that takes place during the Han dynasty in China, detailing the story of a young woman who must present herself to the Emperor as a potential wife-to-be and gets lost in the shuffle of Palace politics. She ends up traveling much further than she ever intended or wanted, but for ...

The Key of the Keplian (2001)

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 dark...

Iron Butterflies (1980)

Amelia could never have known that the necklace--the delicate filigree butterflies of dead black iron--would become the yoke that could drag her down to her death.Amelia Harrach lived with a name blackened by scandal. They said her grandmother's marriage to a captive Hessian officer during the Am...

Ride Proud, Rebel! (1981)

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do ...

The Gate of the Cat (1988)

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 na...

Merlin's Mirror (1975)

I felt bad for Merlin by the end of this book, all he wants is advancement for the human race (which had happened before his time) and to reach for the stars. The question between Merlin (Sky Lord) and Nimue (Dark One) is if humanity is ready to do so and stand on their own. The answer is obviou...

Wizards' Worlds (1989)

Wizards' Worlds is classic Norton, each story personally selected by Miss Norton to create this stunning new volume.

The Zero Stone (1985)

Talk about opening in medias res. Jern appears fleeing for his life from the killers of his mentor -- a cult called the Green Robes, which usually avoided off-worlders, this time selected "randomly" for human sacrifice two of them, a gemologist and his apprentice Jern.Jern's father had been deep...

Rebel Spurs (2007)

The Civil War over, the South defeated, Confederate scout Drew Rennie leaves Kentucky for the small frontier town of Tubacca, Arizona, in search of the father who he has never seen and thought was dead. Hunt Rennie, known as Don Cazar, runs a thriving ranch, despite the attentions of Apaches, ban...

The Jargoon Pard (1983)

I'm writing reviews to the precise editions I have, because exact content varies between editions: not always the front cover picture, but also supplemental material, maps, etc.The 1974 edition is presumably the 1st paperback edition, and the reverse of the title page follows the title with (in ...

Trey of Swords (1979)

Trey of Swords returns to the original setting of the series: Estcarp and Escore. Prior to the events in this novel, the children of Jaelithe and Simon Tregarth broke the geas which had blinded the Old Race to the existence of their homeland Escore to the East. With the geas broken, however, the ...

White Jade Fox (1975)

I know I've read this before, but I retain very few memories of it. About all I can say right now is that Norton must at one point have been to the port at Baltimore (and/or museums pertaining thereto), since it features in several of her books (usually as no more than a transit point).There's s...

Velvet Shadows (1980)

"TAMARIS, THERE ARE THINGS OF ANOTHER TIME -- ANOTHER PLACE--NOT OF THIS SAFE LITTLE WORLD!" Tamaris Penfold was hired as a companion to Alain Sauvage's frail but lovely half-sister, Victorine. She would be a "friend" who would try to protect her from another scandalous involvement--like the one...

At Swords' Point

Task Force 15 TASK FORCE Still linked by the rope after the manner of mountain climbers the three made their way up the broken wall. As Quinn felt for hand- and foot-holds he was glad that he could not see what lay ahead. It was a long, long time before he pulled himself out on a ledge or platfor...

Andre Norton: The Essential Collection

He opened his eyes and saw the pointed ears, the outline of a coyote head between him and a dull gray sky, was able to recognize Nalik'ideyu.     A wetness other than that from the coyote's tongue slid down his forehead now. The dull clouds overhead had released the first heav...

Silver May Tarnish (2011)

My head ached from the wine I had drunk with Devol, I needed to make water, and everything was dark. I shifted, trying to stand. It was puzzling, I couldn’t move and my head was so bad I was unable to remember any reason why that should be so. At my side a voice spoke. “Need to go, do you? Alrigh...

Secret of the Stars

Only the harshness of the jagged peaks which enclosed the cup of the valley were muffled—one could not say softened—by a thick growth of vegetation on the lower slopes. This vegetation existed in the cold months as odd spongelike skeletons with stem surfaces which could withstand even a tri-steel...

Children of the Gates

She was certain she would never hear that voice again. Whatever result might come from this widening of her knowledge would be born from her thoughts and actions alone. Slowly she arose from the chair. Just as the Upper Sense had been drained by her exertions to reach this end of her quest, so no...

The Forerunner Factor

Greeta!” Thorn shouted the name of the dead woman—but even that part of the flitter which contained her body was lost to view. The creatures of the sand crawled and heaped themselves most thickly on that section of the wreckage and had, by their weight, pushed it completely under so that although...

Dragon Magic

Sprague de Camp, two notable tamers of dragons 1 HIDDEN TREASURE Sig Dortmund kicked at a pile of leaves in the gutter, watched the crowd at the school bus stop. With just one bus running from this new development, they picked up the little kids, too. Just a few guys here his age. Yeah, only thre...

Ice and Shadow

Zurzal’s body was stretched out in apparent ease, a turgid greenish liquid hiding much of his length. But he had one shoulder hunched over the edge of that miniature pool, the one which ended in the very slowly growing arm replacement, and the small fingers of that undersized hand were moving alo...

Steel Magic (1965)

As the chime of the bells sounded he stood very still, his head up, looking about. The stretch of mountain wall was far away and none of the strange pillars were crowned with belfries. Some thin and lazy wisps of smoke rose from the charred logs of the fire, but there was nothing else to be seen....

Scent of Magic

Mahart tried to summon up energy enough to raise even a finger. Dark—her face was nearly covered with a nasty-smelling slimed rag. She was so thirsty she could have croaked aloud for water, but even that was denied her. The cold flowed about her like fingers of wind tearing at her. Outside—surely...

High Sorcery

He clung weakly to a rough spur of rock in the canyon wall, swayed against it, raking his flesh raw on the stone. That weathered red and yellow rock was no more unyielding than the murderous wills behind him. And the stab of pain in his calves was no less than the pain of their purpose in his daz...

Magic in Ithkar

We have better served the pilgrims than the priests in the temple not too far away.     Caravanners wrestled with the tavern goblet-wenches or brawled among themselves with goad-knives. A sprinkling of omen-rovers hawked love-drafts, juggled gyro-balls, or cast plot-lines from...

Storm Over Warlock

DRAGON SLAYER "Ayeeee!" Sheer defiance, not only of the beast he fronted, but of the Wyverns as well, brought that old rallying cry to his lips—the call used on the Dumps of Tyr to summon gang aid against outsiders. Fork-tail had crouched again for a spring, but that throat-crackling blast appear...

Time Traders

. . And that is about all." Ten days later Ashe, a dressing on his leg and a few of the pain lines smoothed from his face, sat on a bunk in the arctic time post nursing a mug of coffee in his hands and smiling, a little crookedly, at Nelson Millaird.Millaird, Kelgarries, Dr. Webb, all the top bra...

Garan the Eternal

My body was pressed against the stone; I could feel the chill of that contact through my cloak. But there was the coldness of death itself within me. “There it rises!” Was it the Emperor who spoke or had the dull pounding of blood in my brain beat out the words? Behind the distant mountains there...

The Game of Stars and Comets

"This is what I must do!" Abruptly, as if some decision he had not shared in had been made, that backward drag on him ceased. He was down the curved steps into the hub, Drustans staggering beside him. And the city was strange, for it wavered, as though one mist-edged picture fitted over another n...

Moon Called

No legend—the truth! For let any one of the Dark lay hand so upon a gem which was worn by one of the Lady’s own Chosen and there would follow blighting, and a blasting fire. Whatever Malkin might be she did not give homage to Set or any follower of His. “Not the Dark,” Thora agreed. “Then where i...

Crystal Gryphon

In the autumn of that year, soon after we returned to Ithkrypt, he came riding over the hills with a small escort, their swords all scabbarded with peace-strings, ready to take part in the fall hunt that would fill our winter larder after the kills were salted down. Differing from his sister in b...

The Iron Breed

Then Foskatt's hand shot out, his fingers tightened about Furtig's arm. “Think,” was his order. “Think of some particular place—or person—and look at this while you do so!” Just what he meant Furtig could not understand. But when he heard the urgent tone in the other's voice he did not mistake it...