Silver hair, better eyesight, night and day, and better hearing than anyone else in the tribe. His mother had been a woman of the plainsmen, those nomadic, horse riders, not of the Eyrie. He had just been turned down for the fifth year in a row and by next year he would be to old to be considered. They looked for the cities that hadn’t been destroyed or looted.
Lost because the Old Ones had thoughtlessly used nuclear weapons to nearly destroy the world. The Star Men were the explorers of the clans, the ones who traveled the far lands looking for caches of the lost knowledge.
His father had been killed years ago in a battle with the Beast-things. The son of a Star Man, it was his dream to be one himself. Some believe it was the first fiction to deal with a post-nuclear holocaust world, but there is no reliable evidence to prove that.įors was of The Puma clan, of the People of the Eyrie in the Smoking Mountains. That’s reserved for Tunnel In the Sky by Heinlein. It was among the earliest science fiction I read. Though I own copies of both, I much prefer the former. It was published in 1952 and has also appeared under the title Star Man’s Son. A great many people believe them her best work.
Her best known works are probably the Witch World titles, some thirty plus. Recurring themes were bonding between humans and animals, tribal societies, and the outdoors, whether on Earth or some exotic planet deep in space. She primarily wrote science fiction and fantasy, with an occasional historical thrown in, some three hundred plus novels. As much as I hate to admit it now, in my callow youth, I probably wouldn’t have read any of her books if I’d known a woman wrote them. The reason was that her books were intended for young boys and it was believed they would sell better if “written” by a man. She was born Alice Mary Norton in 1912 and legally changed it to Andre Alice Norton in 1934, writing under the male name of Andre Norton.
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