[fantasyfan]

I finished Andre Norton's Star Born. In Junior High school I first began reading her books and fell in love with them. This one probably would have delighted me had I read it then. Now it comes over as an OK adventure story with a bit of an eco theme built in. There's also some reference to the dangers of an anti-intellectual Fundamentalism--which is more clearly spelt out in The Stars Are Ours which makes this book a kind of distant sequel.

The various evolutionary adaptations of humanity remind one a bit of The Seedling Stars by James Blish--though the idea isn't nearly as thoroughly developed. It's an above-average YA science-fiction novel, but I think that Norton was a great deal better in the books set in The Witch World Universe.