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« Thread Started on Aug 8, 2012, 10:09am » | |
Any other Andre Norton fans? I have been having fun listening to several audio books of her Witch World series.
I think the land of Escore is a perfect place to mix Holmes (or OD&D) & Metamorphosis Alpha. There seems a mix of spells and Mental powers that these two together would fit perfectly. Not to mention mutants of technology and sorcery.
I always thought The Warlock of the Witch World had the most awesome back cover. I always dreamed about having that magic sword in adventures 
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« Reply #1 on Aug 8, 2012, 10:42am » | |
I absolutely love these. I think that the knights & witches & flying-saucers feel of the first few books would make an awesome od&d/ma type mashup game... world gates, science zombies, psionic powers, bird-man gods, pseudo-vikings (the sulcar).
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« Reply #2 on Aug 8, 2012, 1:11pm » | |
I have the first eight books, from back when Ace re-released them in the early 1980's.
I read the first one and liked it, but don't recall why I never read the rest. My wife read the whole set and really liked them.
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« Reply #3 on Aug 8, 2012, 1:25pm » | |
Aug 8, 2012, 1:11pm, Finarvyn wrote:I have the first eight books, from back when Ace re-released them in the early 1980's.
I read the first one and liked it, but don't recall why I never read the rest. My wife read the whole set and really liked them. |
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You might be in for a real treat then. I don't think they really need be read in any order. You might ask your wife for a suggestion. My favorite was Warlock of the Witch World. Lots of sorcery, swords and monsters.
The first book The Witch World is much more in the Science Fiction genre as the series progresses they become more sword and fantasy. Andre Norton wrote some great pure Science Fiction, really how she first became known I believe.
Or have you read Quag Keep?
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« Reply #4 on Aug 8, 2012, 3:32pm » | |
I read several of the Witch World books and remember enjoying them.
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« Reply #5 on Aug 20, 2012, 9:33pm » | |
Hmm since I am somewhat on a science fiction roll I couldn't help but noticed when I browsed through the used bookstore in the basement of our downtown library today one of Andre Norton's novels about the "Solar Queen." "Derelict for Trade" is one of her later novels from the 90s written in partnership with Sherwood Smith. I just started reading for first couple pages and it seems a fun read. I do notice how different the writing style is from Andre Norton's earlier Solar Queen stories from the late 50s early 60s.
In her earlier novels I think she has a very clean almost spartan writing style that conveys lots of information without being over verbose. This newer book is a bit more wordy. I really enjoy Norton's incredible creativity, she helps you imagine unlimited variety and wonder. If I was going to run a Sci-Fi campaign her novels would have a great influence on it.
A couple of her books on the Solar Queen seem to be free in the public domain. You can find the at Project Gutenberg. These books are also in audio book format that you can find at librivox. I don't know how good the readers are however.
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