For well over a half century, Andre Norton has been one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. Since her first SF novels were published in the 1940s, her adventure SF has enthralled readers young and old. With series such as" Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, "and "Janus," as well as many stand-alone novels, her tales of action and adventure throughout the galaxy have drawn countless readers to science fiction.
Her fantasy, including the best-selling "Witch World" series, her "Magic" series, and many other unrelated novels, has been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. Not only have her books been enormously popular; she also has inspired several generations of SF and fantasy writers, especially many talented women writers who have followed in her footsteps. In the past two decades she has worked with other writers on a number of novels. Most notable among these are collaborations with Mercedes Lackey, the "Halfblood Chronicles, " as well as collaborations with A.C. Crispin (in the "Witch World" series) and Sherwood Smith (in the "Time Traders "and "Solar Queen "series). An Ohio native, Ms. Norton lived for a number of years in Winter Park, Florida, and now makes her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she continues to write, and presides over High Hallack, a writers' resource and retreat.
Industry Reviews
Alternate-world historical romantic fantasy from veteran Norton (Scent of Magic, 1998, etc.) and new collaborator Edghill. In this alternate 1805, colonial America is governed by Lord Protector Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase was never purchased, and though Stuart king Henry IX rules England, Europe still trembles before the threat of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. At Mooncoign in Wiltshire, the Marchioness of Roxbury lies dying of consumption - but, as her mentor Dame Alecto Kennet reminds her, she swore a magical oath to serve the People and the Land. Somehow, the Marchioness must keep from dying. Orphan Sarah Cunningham of Baltimore, traveling to London on a vague pretext, is involved in an accident and knocked unconscious-and when she wakes up, everyone thinks she's the Marchioness of Roxbury! Dame Alecto magically fills Sarah with knowledge of the Marchioness's home and doings, including the news that she's betrothed to the Duke of Wessex - King Henry's most trusted spy. Poor Sarah finds the situation bewildering, but her independent, tomboyish upbringing has equipped her with the skills she'll need to survive in Wessex's duplicitous digs. Plots unfold rapidly. Wessex informs Sarah that an assassin is heading for the house, intending to kill a guest, a French Royalist leader. Meanwhile, King Henry aims to cement an alliance against Napoleon by wedding his spirited son, Prince James, to the equally mettlesome Princess Stephanie of Denmark, a development that Napoleon's chief of secret police, Cardinal Talleyrand, works assiduously to thwart. Swirling intrigues, restrained magics, subtle spies, and dauntless heroines: jolly good. (Kirkus Reviews)
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