03-10-2014, 07:43 AM
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Andre Norton
Can anyone here point me at any of the corpus that has a coherent plot and some science to the fiction?
For an author who is reputed to be one of the greats, I am struggling. I've plodded through Children of the Gates, but it was a real slog. |
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03-10-2014, 07:49 AM
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I really liked the Witchworld books, but the science is minimal in the High Hallack books which I think are the best of that series.
_Star Man's Son_ is a good quick read, firmly grounded in science w/ just a bit of telepathy: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...s_Son_2250_A_D --- I believe it's available on PG. |
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03-10-2014, 05:30 PM
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as far as I understand, she was an author of scifi for teens, not serious scifi. That's why so many have fond memories of the books...
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03-10-2014, 09:01 PM
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Her stories were adventure stories with a SF/F/Historical overlay rather than hard science SF, a la James Hogan or Issac Asimov. I think that it is indeed fair to say that she wrote mostly YA SF. Her Witch World books is what she is best known for, but I liked her Time Trader series as well a few of her ancient Egypt books.
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03-11-2014, 12:04 AM
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I never really "got" the Witch World books, but I do like the Time Traders books. The conceit is that there are time travelling fixers, and the disguise they use is traders, because that would help account for any strangeness in their clothing and accents etc.
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03-11-2014, 07:55 AM
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Thanks for the ideas and info. I've picked up Time Traders from Gutenberg.
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03-22-2014, 11:57 PM
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Another vote for Time Traders. I enjoyed that series. But I don't go back and reread her stuff as much as other classics like Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein.
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