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3 unusual facts about Andre Norton


Andre Norton

After graduating from high school in 1930, Norton planned to become a teacher and began studying at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University.

Huon of Bordeaux

Andre Norton retold the tale in quasi-modern English prose as Huon of the Horn in 1951.

Star Rangers

"Star Rangers" is also the title of a 1953 science fiction novel by Andre Norton.


Gandalf Award

The next four Grand Masters were all members of the SAGA: Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, and Poul Anderson.

Megacorporation

Such organizations are a staple of science fiction long predating cyberpunk, appearing in the works of writers such as Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Thea von Harbou (Metropolis), Robert A. Heinlein (Citizen of the Galaxy), Robert Asprin (The Cold Cash War) and Andre Norton (the Solar Queen novels).

Sasha Miller

She wrote a number of works set in Andre Norton's Witch World, including GURPS Witch World (1989) with Ben W. Miller, a rule book for the GURPS role-playing game system, and the novel Falcon Magic (1994), published in the On Wings of Magic omnibus.


see also

Trillium series

Black Trillium (1990, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton)