The Elvenbane has shattered the certainty of the immortal elven lords. The halfblood wizards they thought destroyed have survived, dragons have revealed themselves, and the old order has learned to fear the children it once hunted in secret.Within the House of Treves, Sheyrena lives as a dutiful elven daughter, dressed, displayed, and bartered toward a marriage chosen for politics rather than love. She dreams of dragons, freedom, and a life beyond the suffocating w...

From Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton — Book Three of the legendary Halfblood Chronicles.The Elvenbane has awakened more than halfblood magic. Across the elven lands, rebellion spreads: young lords defy their fathers, human slaves slip their chains, and the immortal Great Lords face a threat they can no longer dismiss as rumor or prophecy.Kyrtian V'dyll Lord Prastaran has always been considered an eccentric. While oth...

From Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton — the landmark dragon-and-rebellion saga, revised, illustrated, and complete at last.The elves rule a world where humans are property. The one thing they fear is a child who is not fully human.For a thousand years the immortal elven lords have bred, collared, drugged, and discarded their human slaves at a whim. They fear revolt — but they fear something else far more: a halfblood child born with g...

A groundbreaking collection from one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time. This anthology brings together remarkable works that explore artificial intelligence, alternate realities, identity, technology, and the nature of human existence. Through imaginative storytelling and thought-provoking ideas, Philip K. Dick challenges readers to question reality and consider the future of humanity. Innovative, philosophical, and endlessly fascinating, these stories have inspir...

A young brother and sister return to their family's mansion with their older brother. They all know their family's history: that their ancestors had resorted to piracy to survive—and family legend has it that there's hidden pirate's treasure, and lost "luck," hidden somewhere in the mansion. With barely enough money to carry on, they seek the "luck" of the family, knowing neither what it is nor where it is. Their precarious situation is worsened by the appearance of a rival claimant who as...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? The Time Traders is the first book in Andre Norton's Time Traders series . First published in 1958 by World Publishing Co., The Time Traders is told from the perspective of Ross Murdock, a young criminal faced with a choice: be turned over to the new Rehabilitation Service or volunteer for a secret government project....

The Time Traders is the first book in Andre Norton's Time Traders series. First published in 1958 by World Publishing Co., The Time Traders is told from the perspective of Ross Murdock, a young criminal faced with a choice: be turned over to the new Rehabilitation Service or volunteer for a secret government project.Murdock chooses the secret government project, hoping for a chance to escape. At the Arctic base he learns what the project is, and instead of escaping he joins a team posing a...

A brutal force of insectoid aliens called Throgs effortlessly destroy a Terran survey camp on Warlock, a planet seemingly devoid of intelligent life that both Throgs and Terrans hope to colonize. Two Terrans who survive the enemy attack must go on the run, weaponless and with only a pair of wolverines as their companions. These survivors are driven to an unknown destination by dreams so powerful that they may be visions; but as they get closer to their goal, crossing brutal landscapes, tum...

On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala, former pilot turned safari guide Ras Hume schemes to collect the reward for finding a missing heir to a fortune. A busboy from local dive bar is brainwashed into believing he is the missing heir, but he soon begins to doubt his own memories.This standalone story was originally published in 1961 as part of a double title paperback by Ace Books along with an abridged version of The Beast Master, and again in 1968 paired with the short novel Voodoo Pl...

The space race has gone interstellar! Western and Soviet agents vie for control of the strategic alien world of Topaz and the lost technology it conceals.Agent Travis Fox awakens on Topaz after a crash landing, his memories a confusing mix of his own and those of a 19th-century Apache ancestor. His fellow agents have all been subject to the same experiment, some more thoroughly entangled in the past than others. Driven by his present-day memories and aided by a pair of mutant coyotes, he s...

Voodoo Planet is the third in a series of novels featuring the adventures of Dane Thorson and the spaceship Solar Queen, written in the 1950s by Andre Norton under her male pseudonym, Andrew North. In this installment, Dane and his shipmates land on the safari planet Khatka, settled by African refugees of an atomic race war on Earth. They soon face off with a witch doctor seeking to take over the planet.This short work was originally published as a double title paperback by Ace Books in 19...

Twenty-one stories of fantasy, space, myth, and magic from the New York Times–bestselling author, "one of the pioneer women in science fiction" (Anne McCaffrey).In the third and final volume of Andre Norton's High Hallack anthologies, tales of high fantasy, science fiction, and coming of age reach back as far as 1943, yet are as fresh and relevant today as when they were written.High Hallack was a place featured in Norton's fiction as well as the nam...