Captain Garin Featherstone is a shattered postwar flyer with little hope of fitting back into civilian life—until the enigmatic Antarctic explorer Gregory Farson offers him work, purpose, and a flight south into the unknown. What begins as a routine expedition to investigate a strange purple-blue haze over the ice becomes a plunge into mystery, when Garin's plane is seized by an invisible force and driven beneath the frozen crust into a hidden green world of towering plants, alien power, a...

In a ruined mountain sanctuary above the fallen city of Memphir, Varta, the last Maiden of Asti, prepares to abandon a dead world as barbarian conquerors sweep across the land below. With her mute, reptilian companion Lur at her side, she enters the empty temple of Asti and offers a final ritual of devotion before a mysterious cosmic shrine that displays the worlds of the system in miniature. The scene is steeped in sorrow, duty, and the last flicker of a civilization nearing extinction, b...

On the frontier world of Topaz, a crash landing, a broken alliance, and a hidden arsenal of forbidden technology ignite a struggle for freedom that could reshape two cultures. Andre Norton's The Defiant Agents delivers fast-moving science fiction with tribal politics, alien danger, and the uneasy power of advanced weapons in the hands of desperate rebels. When a massive ship slams into Topaz's orbital defenses, Dr. James Ruthven, human crew, and intelligent coyote-like beings are thrown in...

On Sargol, where towering grass hides watchers and trade depends on ritual as much as profit, Dane Thorson learns that first contact can be as grueling as any pirate raid. The Solar Queen has come to claim the Koros stones left behind by the trader Traxt Cam, but the proud Salariki are secretive, rank-conscious, and hard to read, and every gesture—from the scent rite to the cup of peace—can decide the fate of a bargain. When an Inter-Solar Company envoy arrives to contest the Free Trader's...

Andre Norton's Star Hunter plunges into a tense science fiction frontier where survival, deception, and alien mystery collide. On the world of Nahuatl, disgraced former star pilot Ras Hume has reinvented himself as an Out-Hunter and comes to the underworld power Milfors Wass with a dangerous scheme involving a lost heir, a stranded ship, and an impostor meant to strike back at the corporate forces that ruined him. But the planet Jumala is far stranger than a routine safari world, and the m...

Andre Norton's Star Born begins with a voyaging crew pushed to its limits by a long, claustrophobic passage through overdrive space, where fear and boredom strain every bond. When RS 10 finally reaches Astra, pilot Raf Kurbi steps onto a world of tall grass and fresh air, only to discover that wonder is only the beginning of the mystery. What appears to be an alien civilization is in fact a lost human colony, its star-born descendants shaped by generations far from Earth and threatened by ...

Ralestone Luck opens on the proud, impoverished Ralestone siblings—Ricky, Val, and Rupert—as they return to Pirate's Haven, their long-neglected ancestral home in Louisiana. Beneath their dry wit and family banter lies real desperation: the crumbling estate, the empty niche where the family's lost "Luck" once hung, and the burden of preserving a fading legacy. The gray stone house, with its diamond-paned windows, pirate history, and rumored ghost in the Long Hall, feels both like a refuge ...

Ride Proud, Rebel! follows Drew Rennie through the fierce closing days of the Civil War, where Confederate cavalry raids, river ambushes, and desperate retreats turn every mile into a test of nerve. Riding with Forrest's men, Drew survives night attacks, horse seizures, river crossings, and the chaos of Lexington, where he is thrown face to face with family wounds and the search for Boyd. Andre Norton gives the campaign a hard, restless energy, balancing battlefield action with the persona...

A young heir is drawn into a labyrinth of deception, death, and magical destiny in this bold adventure in the bestselling Witch World series.Kethan is heir to the throne of Car Do Prawn in the realm of Arvon—but there is little he has to be proud of. He can sense trouble brewing amongst the people. And he can feel the weight of those who wish to bend his will to their own. From his overbearing mother, the Lady Heroise, and her duplicitous Wise Woman, Ursilla, to hi...

Blast off into the unknown with a stellar collection of classic science fiction adventures. Epic Sci-Fi Odyssey brings together stories from acclaimed science fiction writers including Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Ben Bova, and Philip K. Dick. Across these diverse tales, readers encounter distant planets, alien civilizations, futuristic technology, space travel, scientific discoveries, strange worlds, and humanity's uncertain future. The collection sho...

An archaeology student is transported back to an ancient Ethiopian kingdom where, reborn as a warrior priestess, she must save their civilization from an evil as old as timeArchaeology student and expert in African history Tallahassee Mitford has been asked to authenticate some ancient artifacts. But there's a strange energy emanating from the relics, which, according to legend, can hold the soul of an entire nation. As she examines an ankh, talisman of the Egyptia...

Dane Thorson's latest assignment on the waterlogged frontier world of Xecho turns dangerous the moment Chief Ranger Kort Asaki arrives with a request that sounds like a warning. He needs Dane, Captain Jellico, and medic Tau to travel to Khatka, a wealthy hunting preserve world where beauty, politics, and old superstitions hide a far more lethal truth. Khatka was founded by escaped prisoners from Earth's brutal racial conflicts and reshaped into a rigid society ruled by five gifted families...