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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Andre Norton's Key Out of Time launches readers into a brisk science-fantasy quest where stranded outsiders, ancient powers, and alien intelligence collide. From the eerie "Lotus World" to the sea-roads of Hawaika, Ross Murdock and his allies race to uncover a secret buried beneath the waves before the Baldies and the Foanna turn the planet's hidden past into a weapon. The novel moves from mystery to open conflict as Ross survives a dragonlike sea predator, uncovers a metal-lined ruin on t...

In the far reaches of space, a handicap on Earth can become a deadly advantage among the stars. Steena, a quiet gray woman with an uncanny memory and a rare gift for reading people, drifts from port to port solving problems for spacers without ever asking for reward. When she brings bitter, desperate captain Cliff Moran a tip about the legendary ghost ship Empress of Mars, he takes the gamble—and soon finds himself aboard the derelict vessel with Steena and her gray tomcat, Bat. What they ...

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...

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...

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...