Complete Short Fiction by Andre Norton (.ePUB)
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Complete Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2023) by Andre Norton
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Overview: Andre Norton, initially the working name of US author Alice Mary Norton (1912-2005), but for most of her career her legal name. A librarian for two decades before turning to full-time writing, she was one of the few sf figures of any stature to enter the field via Children’s SF, and, though much of her work is fully as adult in theme and difficulty as most general sf, she was for many years primarily marketed as a writer for children and the Young Adult market. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, as her work changed in emphasis from sf to fantasy and as her popularity continued to grow, new novels and reprints alike were released primarily into the general market.
Though her style matured over the years of her active participation in titles issued under her name, and her plots tended to darken somewhat, from first to last a Norton story would show the virtues of clear construction, with fields of action safely free of congested cities, a high degree of narrative control, protagonists whose qualities allow easy reader-identification and a universe fundamentally responsive to virtue, good will and spunk. Her disinclination to publish short material in the sf magazines and her labelling for decades as a juvenile writer both worked to delay proper recognition of her stature, though her actual sales were very considerable for decades. Only late in her life was it borne in upon the sf world that Norton’s 100 or more self-authored books – many of them in print – were for very many readers central to what the genre had to offer. This can be also said, though with less intent to praise, of the very large number of books published after she began to experience ill-health in the late 1960s; these volumes, usually but not always identified as being collaborative, are significantly less inspired – though usually much longer – than earlier works no reader has ever doubted she wrote entirely on her own hook. Nevertheless, appropriately, she was honoured with the SFWA Grand Master Award in 1984, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement in 1998, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1997.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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