{"id":7375,"date":"2005-03-17T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/17\/even-the-zacathans-would-be-moved.html"},"modified":"2005-03-17T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T22:59:56","slug":"even_the_zacath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/17\/even_the_zacath.html","title":{"rendered":"Even the Zacathans would be moved"},"content":{"rendered":"

SF god(dess) Andre Norton has died.<\/p>\n

Science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton, who wrote the popular “Witch World” series, has died. She was 93.<\/p>\n

[…] Norton requested before her death that she not have a funeral service, but instead asked to be cremated along with a copy of her first and last novels.<\/p>\n

Born Alice Mary Norton on February 17, 1912, in Cleveland, she wrote more than 130 books in many genres during her career of nearly 70 years. She used a pen name — which she made her legal name in 1934 — because she expected to be writing mostly for young boys and thought a male name would help sales.<\/p>\n

[…] She was the first woman to receive the Grand Master of Fantasy Award from the SFWA in 1977, and she won the Nebula Grand Master Award in 1984.<\/p>\n

I have at least a couple of dozen of her books<\/a> on my bookshelf, and I still regularly reread a number of them. She wrote fabulous space opera and fantasy (and sometimes both), often with common settings, history and technology. The Witch World series was one of her most famous series, but her SF books — the Patrol, the Free Traders, blasters, stunners, veeps, Forerunners, Zacathans, Salariki, the whole lot — were my faves. I’ve probably read The Zero Stone <\/em>and its sequel a score of times, and I always enjoyed her body-hopping Moon of Three Rings<\/em> and its sequels. What SF conventions she didn’t originate she at least established in my head as to how an SF universe would work. <\/p>\n

If not as flashy as a Heinlein or as erudite as an Asimov, she was still a solid, engaging writer, always balancing the fantastic with the personal.<\/p>\n

It’s sad to know she’s gone, though she’s been in ill health for some time<\/a>. It’s a joy to know that her work will live on.<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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