Andre Norton
10 books by Andre Norton to read free, each with its best passages and lines, and the best quotes from all of them below.
Where to start
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Plague Ship
When the rest of their crew falls mysteriously ill after a trading mission, four low-ranking crew members must save their ship from being condemned to drift forever in permanent quarantine.
60,593 words, about 4 hours
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Star Born
Two human protagonists find themselves on opposite sides of an inter-species war.
62,335 words, about 4 hours
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Key Out of Time
While searching a distant world of shallow seas and archipelagos for traces of a galactic civilization, a group of explorers get stranded in the past and face a dangerous enemy.
57,581 words, about 4 hours
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Ralestone Luck
The descendants of a noble family, and of pirates, seek to restore their fortunes by locating the “luck” of their family.
59,334 words, about 4 hours
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Short Fiction
A collection of fantasy and science fiction short fiction by Andre Norton.
24,386 words, about 2 hours
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Star Hunter
On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala the sole survivor of a spaceship crash is heir to a fortune, or has been made to believe so.
34,328 words, about 2 hours
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Storm Over Warlock
On a planet presumed devoid of intelligent life, and in a race to colonize worlds ahead of brutal beetle-like aliens, two surveyors take flight from their hunters and try to uncover the secrets of a place that seems ever less benign.
62,470 words, about 4 hours
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The Defiant Agents
Rival colonies are stranded on an alien world, their memories mixed with those of their ancestors and pitted against each other by the Western and Soviet forces who sent them.
58,043 words, about 4 hours
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The Time Traders
A young criminal volunteers for a government project at a secret base.
64,198 words, about 5 hours
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Voodoo Planet
Dane Thorson travels to the safari planet Khatka and encounters an evil witch doctor.
23,999 words, about 2 hours
Andre Norton quotes
On the other hand dead heroes have never helped to lift a ship.
The two voyagers were neither of the same race nor of the same species, yet they worked together without words, as if they had established some bond which gave them a rapport transcending the need for speech.
A rose world bathed in soft sunlight, knowing only gentle winds, peace, and—sloth.
“Nobility in the bread line.” His sister sniffed with what she fondly believed was the air of a Van Astor dowager.
Six months and three days after the Peace of Shanghai was signed and the great War of 1965–1970 declared at an end by an exhausted world, a young man huddled on a park bench in New York, staring miserably at the gravel beneath his badly worn shoes.
Nahuatl’s larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl.
To listen to a tale of Throgs in action, and to be an eyewitness to such action, were two vastly different things.
Was the enemy always on the other side of the world? Or could he wear the same uniform, even share the same goals?
Facts were very useful things.
There were minute organisms in that liquid that smacked their lips—if they had lips—every time they thought of a Terran.
The dangers of the space lanes were not to be numbered; death walked among the stars a familiar companion of all spacemen.
Hoppers could remember yesterday only dimly, and instinct took care of tomorrow.
Its long, uneventful, unchanging days enticed forgetfulness, offered a life without effort.
Beneath it ran the insolent motto of an ancient and disreputable clan, “What I want—I take!”
He no longer believed in luck.
After all he was now in the seller’s space boots, and it was a seller’s market.
His formal education was close to zero, his informal and off-center schooling vast.
Fire, mankind’s oldest ally, weapon, tool, leaped high before the naked stone of the mountain side.
“Time is what you do not have, boy. Tomorrow they will tape you. Then—no over the wall for you.”
As if the color of a man’s skin makes any difference in what lies under it!