ANDRE NORTON, (February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American Science Fiction and Fantasy author and librarian and cat lover. She was awarded the Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983. Norton wrote novels for over 70 years and had a tremendous influence on authors and readers with her more than 300 (!) published titles. Themes found in Norton novels include telepathy, parallel worlds, alien planets (with human colonies), aliens, primitive or tribal cultures. First nations protagonists and cultures recur repeatedly, settings are mostly rural, and Norton often finds an important role for intelligent animals to play in her plots.
PUBLIC DOMAIN AUDIO:
Storm Over Warlock
By Andre Norton; Read by R.J. Davis
19 Zipped MP3s or Podcast – 7 Hours 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: May 15th 2008
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there.
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/storm-over-warlock-by-andre-norton.xml
Plague Ship
By Andre Norton; Read by Mark Nelson
18 Zipped MP3s – Approx. 7 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: March 2007
Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Company there ahead of them. Adapting quickly to the culture of Sargol’s feline inhabitants, the crew of the Queen beat out their rivals and successfully make a deal with the natives. But soon after takeoff, the Queen’s crew is stricken with a plague, and they are now banned from landing on any inhabited planet. Will the Queen’s crew save themselves, or be condemned to drift forever through space?
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/plague-ship-by-andre-norton.xml
Voodoo Planet
By Andre Norton; Read by Mark Nelson
8 Zipped MP3s – 2 Hours 46 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 2007
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit to the safari planet of Khatka, where they find themselves caught in a battle between the forces of reason and the powers of Khatka’s mind-controlling wizard.
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/voodoo-planet-by-andre-norton.xml
Star Hunter
By Andre Norton; Read by Maureen O’Brien
13 Zipped MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
PODCAST: Maria Lectrix
COMPLETED: January 2007
Ras Hume’s an Out-Hunter, but once he was a star pilot. Now he’s found the perfect way to get revenge against the company that blacklisted him. All he needs to do is brainwash some kid into thinking he’s the shipwrecked heir to the company fortune, and let his off-world safari members ‘find’ the fake-castaway. But something on the safari planet is hunting humans….
Star Hunter
By Andre Norton; Read by Leonie Rose
13 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – 3 Hours 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: Aug. 5th 2007
Somewhere on the jungle world of Jumala hid a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another’s brain pattern. There was a fabulous reward out for him. And so began another-worldly game of hide and seek. Between a man who did not know his own powers and an interstellar safari that sought something no man had a right to find.
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Key Out Of Time
By Andre Norton; Read by R.J. Davis
18 Zipped MP3s or Podcast – Approx. 6 Hours 35 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: February 2008
“Ross Murdock and Arthur Ashe continue their adventures in Time and Space on the World of Hawaika. Hawaiian and Polynesian settlers help Ross and Ashe discover the way the world has changed from the data tape to present time. Helped by a girl, Karara, and her two trained dolphins, Tino-rau and Taua.”
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/key-out-of-time-by-andre-norton.xml
The Gifts Of Asti
By Andre Norton; Read by Mark Nelson
1 |MP3| Approx. 41 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Themes: / Fantasy /
Varta, the last priestess of Asti, lives alone with Lur, a telepath of the lizardfolk, in Asti’s isolated mountain retreat. Decadent Memphir has long since drifted away from the austere paths of Asti, and now the barbarians of Klem are sacking the city, and the smoke of its burning drifts up to the temple.
Podcast fiction:
The Mousetrap
By Andre Norton; Read by Rick Stringer
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: September 2006
Podcast: TheTimeTravelerShow.com
To read the complete show notes for podcast #7 click HERE or download the show MP3 directly by clicking HERE.
And if you haven’t already subscribed do so by placing this feed into your podcatcher:
http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml
Audiobooks:
Voodoo Planet
By Andre Norton; Read by Charles McKibben
3 CDs or MP3 Download – Approx. 3 hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audio Realms
Published: 2007
Item #: VOODOO-DL
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Starborn
By Andre Norton; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
Audible Download – 6 Hours 58 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio / Audible.com
Published: March 26th 2008
When Raf Kurbi’s spaceship from Earth burst into unexplored skies of the far planet Astra, it was made welcome by the natives of a once-mighty metropolis. But Kurbi was unaware of three vital things: (1) that Astra already harbored an Earth colony – descended from refugees from the world of the previous century; (2) that these men and women were facing the greatest danger of their existence from a new outburst of the inhuman fiends who had once tyrannized Astra; and (3) that the natives who were buying Kurbi’s science know-how were those very fiends – and their intentions were implacably deadly for all humans, whether Earth born or star born!
The Beast Master
By Andre Norton; Read by Richard J. Brewer
6 CDs – Approx. 7 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781423399858
Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm – Navaho commando and master of beasts – is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met. On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over – but was it?