Andre Norton was Ace's (first major SF paperback publisher) top author, most popular and most prolific. Her voluminous writings include some excellent fantasy and science fiction. This site considers her science fiction. At present, it offers reviews, summaries and notes of some two dozen of her novels, a look at the common background to her Galactic Civilization stories, a comprehensive listing of planet names in these some three dozen books and a brief statement of her lack of vision. It also offers a link to the Andre Norton official webpage. This section was last updated on September 21, 2008 with relatively minor editing of a number of the reviews.
1. Preliminary Comments on the Inter-Relation of the Galactic Stories of Andre Norton
2. THE LAST PLANET a short review written June 18, 2002, notes added 20/9/06.
3. An Enumeration of the Planets named in the Galactic Stories of Andre Norton
4. ANDROID AT ARMS a short review and some notes on this novel.
5. BROTHER TO SHADOWS a short review and notes of this relatively recent novel.
6. CATSEYE a short review and notes of this Dipple story.
7. FORERUNNER FORAY short review and brief notes of this key novel.
8. JUDGEMENT ON JANUS a short review written on June 29, 2002 CE. of this novel and of its sequel VICTORY ON JANUS; notes to the two novels were added on September 5, 2006.
9. Solar Queen stories in this first generation McKenny review.
10. SECRET OF THE LOST RACE a review written on July 1, 2002 CE; notes added 2006.
11. ZERO STONE and UNCHARTED STARS a review written on June 28, 2002; notes added 2006
12. ICE CROWN Michael's brief review and notes of this adventurous novel.
13. DREAD COMPANION Brief review and notes of this captivating yarn.
14. THE BEAST MASTER Brief review of first Beast Master novel and notes to the four books in the series.
15. MOON OF THREE RINGS Reviews and plot summaries of the four Krip, Maelen and Farree novels.
16. Notes on Moon of 3 Rings etc Some notes on the four above novels.
17. STORM OVER WARLOCK brief review and notes of this novel and of its sequel ORDEAL IN OTHERWHERE.
18. Norton's World A brief essay on Norton's vision, or lack thereof.
Link:
Andre Norton'sofficial web page with it's links to other pages on Andre Norton.