>>6510120A few words on Andre Norton:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_bibliographyShe was prolific and wrote across several genres. Personally, I never really got into much of her stuff outside of her science fiction. Sh edid a lot of fantasy work, very little of which interested me, and some early "drama-mentuaries" of historical nature.
Also, keep in mind that she never intended to write to an adult audience in the sense of the advanced, mature content we expect of hard sci fi targeted toward college students and university graduates that we expect today. So, forewarned that her writing is a bit simplistic and would fit mch more neatly into a teen category today.
However, some of her books were intended for the adult audience of the 1950s. In that sense, they are a great window into that time period and mindset of being an American. As admirable as she is for numerous reasons, her work into the 1970s (and then through the 1990s) never really evolved beyond her earlier stories ... it even regressed a bit as she targeted younger readers and delved even further into her fantasy worlds/franchises and farmed off a good bit to collaborative efforts with other writers.
That said, several of her earlier sci fi works are well worth visiting, for their content and ideas as much as their historical importance in fiction writing.
I'll continue with another post, but three post-apocalyptic novels are good, if short and somewhat simplistic, reads:
- Breed to Come
- Daybreak 2250 A.D.
- Sea Siege
There are a couple others, since these themes are prominent in many of her writings (fantasy & sci fi and her interesting blend of both) ... but my memory isn't perfect enough to remember exactly which titles at the moment.
