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On February 20, 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which had earlier honored her with its Grand Master Award in 1983, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market, beginning in 2006. Norton won a number of other genre awards, and regularly had works appear in the Locus annual 'best of year' polls. Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, in 1964 for the novel Witch World and in 1967 for the novelette 'Wizard's World.' She was nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, winning the award in 1998. She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms.Īndre Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) association in 1983. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice. First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male-dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym. She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher. Now humans return and the People are in no mood to deal once again with the “demons” who abandoned them to fate so long ago.Īlice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities. But from that devastated past, a new breed of intelligence arises: the catlike People. But when a star ship arrives carrying Jony’s original species, humans–humans who seek to exploit the People for their own ends–Jony is forced to choose between loyalty to the creatures he considers his family, and the need to reconnect with his long lost heritage.īreed to Come: On a distant future Earth, humans have polluted the planet and departed, leaving their pets behind to inherit a blasted world. The Iron Cage: Jony has always loved and been protected by the People, the bearlike inhabitants on the planet he calls home. Two bestselling novels of science fiction adventure from the People saga of legendary storyteller Andre Norton together for the first time. A young woman and a young man face down powerful enemies as they come of age in a far future universe full of menace and technology so powerful as to be almost magic. Two bestselling novels of science fiction adventure from legendary storyteller Andre Norton collected together for the first time, The Iron Cage and Breed to Come.

Iron Cage by Andre Norton