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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies each of The Zero Stone and Uncharted Stars, both parts of Andre Norton's Murdoc Jern duology, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lwcg6e2xjc2a

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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Andre Norton's The Zero Stone (Murdoc Jern), over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lolzjv54kk22

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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 11 copies of Andre Norton's Wizards' Worlds: A Witch World Collection, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lms5d35hvk23

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Published in 1961-62 in teen science fiction: Andre Norton’s Catseye.

One of my favorite novels when I was a teen science fiction reader was Andre Norton’s Catseye. In the 1960s, Andre Norton, better known for adult science fiction, was also one of the most important writers of science fiction for teens. Norton had been a children’s librarian in the Cleveland Library system, but later worked in the Library of Congress on a project about alien citizenship, which may well have been significant for her writing. She bought a bookstore, which failed, returned to the Cleveland Library, and when she became a reader for Martin Greenberg and Gnome Press, Norton had already been writing for almost 30 years. At the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, she produced radical books for teens.

Catseye is set on one of the worlds of a galactic-spanning human occupation. Its protagonist, Troy Horan, arrived with his family when their planet changed hands in a peace process, and they found themselves displaced persons, their ranch gone, their skills unsaleable. Initially welcomed to a new planet, their welcome wore out, and the next epidemic wiped out Horan’s family. As the book opens, he is a teenage refugee stuck in “the Dipple,” the shanty town-come-refugee camp on the edge of the world-city.

People who live in the Dipple have no regular rights to legal work. They can join the thieves guild, sign up for the military, or wait each day to see if they can get a work assignment at the labor exchange. On the morning the novel begins, Troy is delighted to be offered an open contract working with animals in what turns out to be a luxury pet shop, based on a liking for animals brought with him from his home planet.

The pet shop is not all that it seems, and neither are some of the pets. The kinkajou, the foxes, and the cats are all telepathic and are being used as spies. Troy can hear them, and when things go wrong, the foxes warn Troy that his employer is planning to kill him in order to tie up loose ends. They flee into the Wild, followed by the conspirators, the city patrollers, and the Rangers (who have already taken an interest in Troy). Troy comes to realize that while he cannot survive alone, as part of the we of the animal companions, he stands a decent chance.

The novel stood out to me because it was the first time I’d read a book in which the only hope for the hero was survival—there was no happy ending for a refugee, no escape from the encampment—but also because it explores the class and capital divisions of a society from underneath. Troy is offered two chances to escape the Dipple: first a long-term contract with the pet shop owner-spy after Troy protects both him and the animals, and second, more tantalizingly, with the Rangers who (in almost classic Romance) recognize his background as a hereditary Range Master on Norden as equal to their hereditary position. But Troy refuses the story of the returning prince, and the destinarianism it imposes, and the story ends with Troy and the companions heading into the wilderness, still hunted, to construct their own fates.

Sequel: Masks of the Outcasts, 1964.

https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/28/fantastic-fiction-resistance/

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The text Fantastic Fiction against a retrofuturistic design of a rounded triangle shape with a gold swirl pattern.

The cover of the 1961 edition of Catseye.

Fantastic Fiction: Resistance: One of my favorite novels when I was a teen science fiction reader was Andre Norton’s Catseye. In the 1960s, Andre Norton, better known for adult science fiction, was also one of the most important writers of science fiction for teens. … (#AndreNorton #Catseye)

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“Her work voluminous
Output continuous” 🤘🏼

From the lyrics of #Seattle #SciFi #Metal band Bloodhag
https://web.archive.org/web/20150514154334/http://bloodhag.inwa.net/lyrics.html

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Sticker designed to mimic the Andre the Giant meme: this one has a smiling bespectacled woman and says, “Andre Norton has a posee. 137 novels, 48 short stories”
From 90s Seattle metal band Bloodhag, who used to throw sci-fi books at the audience and all their songs were about famous Science Fiction authors.

LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD (1979)
Watercolor on Watercolor Board

Early in my career I had the privilege of being assigned covers for many established authors. That list, of course, included one of the grand dames of science fiction Andre Norton.
1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #andrenorton

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Andre Norton's The Zero Stone (Murdoc Jern), over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lcitste7q22i

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@RufusJCooter @SrRochardBunson
The ‘90s #Seattle metal band #Bloodhag 🎸🥁🤘🏼unexpectedly turned out to be an “edu-core”project that did shows in public #libraries promoting children’s literacy 📖

All their songs were about famous Science Fiction authors, and they would throw #SciFi books at kids, who all covered their ears while the band screamed at them about #AndreNorton 🚀
https://web.archive.org/web/20150513200751/http://bloodhag.inwa.net/index.html

A sticker from the band Bloodhag that looks like the famous Andre the Giant sticker but it has an image of a friendly looking middle-aged sci-fi writer with glasses and a bouffant hairdo, and it says “Andre Norton has a posse. 137 novels 48 short stories.”

Song lyrics:

Andre Norton
Her bibliography is immense
Even her books for adolescents are intense
She writes clean-cut and optimistic
But for someone born in 1912
She was totally with it The Witch World series began Horn Crown
The World of Estcarp put the girls in power
Pressed the point to pontificate how
To keep the technocrats out I had a hunch you were all woman
Even though you name's Andre From Victory On Janus all the way to Forerunner Foray
I've read Andre since a child and until my dying day
Bury me with one to read
While I turn to powder in the bottom of my grave
I'll be spinning my bones to powder
In the bottom of my grave
Her work voluminous
Output continuous

This Sunday we put a spotlight on Accelera. The bold rounded sans got its name from the triple shadow: with these motion lines, it looks as if the letterforms are taking off. As a result, Accelera was used for #ScienceFiction books like #AndreNorton’s space sagas, but also for other uplifting things like #RoseyGrier’s Needlepoint for Men, or #SesameStreet‌’s Sing-Along! albums. Designers loved to use PLINC’s early-1970s #font with different colors for the shades.

https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/162407/accelera #Fonts

Detail from the cover for Pickwick’s 1977 release of Nilsson’s Rock n Roll album.

Detail from Fawcett Crest’s 1979 paperback edition of Andre Norton’s Star Rangers

Detail from the dust jacket for Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men, published by Walker & Co. in 1973

Album cover for Sesame Street Sing-Along! from 1982

6. "Plague Ship". This might have been the start of the project, two years ago, as I was reading the book and thought why not write a song for this moment? I've spent this pandemic era collecting #AndreNorton books. The song aimed at #thrashmetal but hit #grunge dead-on.

David Totten sings heavy metal, gripping a microphone, in front off a bookcase including "Plague Ship" by Andre Norton.

Happy birthday to #AndreNorton (1912 - 2005), the grand dame of American pulp #SFF! From the Time Agents to Witch World and beyond, her skill and whole-hearted love of spec-fic made her a trailblazer in that boy's club - she was the first woman to become a SFWA Grand Master, among many other honors. An early fan of D&D after being introduced to the game by Gary Gygax, she's credited with writing the very first D&D novel.
More: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton
Read: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7021
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Lucked into 16 Andre Norton books at resale. $1.25 each.
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#AndreNorton

LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD (1979)
Watercolor on Watercolor Board

Early in my career I had the privilege of being assigned covers for many established authors. The list of Grand Masters, of course, includes Andre Norton. 1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #andrenorton

Virgil Finlay book jacket for this Andre Norton edited anthology from World Publishing Co., 1953. Plus a preliminary painting for same which was completely rethought. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #AndreNorton #Painting #Anthology #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

On an alien world purple-helmeted space explorers in green spacesuits come upon a fallen comrade. A row of spaceships are behind them as one of them takes off.

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by
ANDRE NORTON

SPACE SERVICE

Thrilling science-fiction tales by Theodore R. Cogswell, Gordon R. Dickson, H. B. Fyfe, Raymond Z. Gallun, Bernard I. Kahn, C. M. Kornbluth, Walt Sheldon, and J. A. Winter, M.D.

The same space travelers are regrouping as two of them wearing Red Cross emblems carry their fallen comrade off. The row of spaceships are behind them.

With all sorts of reports from around the world, like yachts being attacked by orcas, catamarans being damaged by sharks, and increasing rates of irukandji stings, I am starting to feel like I am living in an #AndreNorton novel!
#sff #scifi #fromtheseatothestars

@NeonBeal

My personal favorite is Star Rangers aka The Last Planet.
Especially the prolog and the scene at the end with the hall of chairs.

#AndreNorton #Scifi #WomenInScifi

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