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[sartorias]

Andre Norton and Me.

Today is the anniversary of Andre's birthday, so there are homage posts.

Comments

[zornhau]

Like Paul McCartney getting to collaborate with Carl Perkins! Much envy. All my heroes are long gone.

Is the Solar Queen series going to be reprinted, ever? Better yet, ebooks?

[sartorias]

I am not sure about how the rights to her works divided out. I know that Tor is putting in ebook form the ones she did with them.

[serialbabbler]

Some of the earlier books in the Solar Queen series are available as free ebooks on Project Gutenberg.

[asakiyume]

That was wonderful--what an incredible twist of fate that you should get to work with the person who encouraged you back when you were just beginning! And I appreciate how the collaboration could have been rough for both of you--glad you both persevered! And I think it's great that she got to know about the award being established before she died. I love hearing about the books you read for the award.

[birdsedge]

I didn't discover Andre Norton until I became a children's librarian - about the same time as the first seven Witch World novels were issued in hardback in the UK (for the YA market over here, though not YA in the USA, I think). I read and re-read those seven books then went back and read her books for younger readers. This was pre-google, of course. Pocket calculators were still a novelty, computers of 1k capacity filled whole rooms, and Amazon was decades away. It was impossible to get hold of a lot of Witch World titles in the UK in the 1970s, but much later - in the 90s, when I started to sing my way around the USA and Canada with Artisan - I made sure that in my spare time between gigs I visited as many bookshops as I could. A Canadian friend introduced me to 'The World's Biggest' and the specialist 'Bakka' in Toronto and I began to fill in the blanks in my Andre Norton collection. For collection it has become. I bought every title I could find over the years of travelling and I confess still haven't read them all, but I look

[sartorias]

So many have said the same--she really left a very long shadow.

[serialbabbler]

I was very fond of the crosstime books as a kid in the 80s. Never could pass up a good cross-dimensional adventure story.

Oh, and the Dipple books... and the first Star Ka'at one, well, I mean what's not to like about alien cats... and the Zero Stone books... and the Solar Queen books... and... ;)

Wasn't much into the Time Trader books although my mother liked them.

[sartorias]

Alien cats: definitely FTW.