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Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D by Andre Norton5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Star Men are explorers who search the wilderness for forgotten knowledge and goods for the Eyrie. It is two hundred years after the Blow-up, the Atomic War which has decimated the world and Fors of the Eyrie has been passed over for admittance to the Star Hall. ![]() Despite an appearance of her story ‘People of the Crater’, as by Andrew North, in Fantasy Book Vol 1 No 1 in 1947, Norton, unlike most of the science fiction writers of her generation really did not publish much short fiction. You see, you couldn’t sell a science fiction book prior to 1951.” The publication of science fiction novels really took off in the 1950’s, before that science fiction appeared primarily in the pulp magazines and even longer works were serialized in several issues of a magazine. Before that I had written spy stories, and adventure stories and historical novels. She notes in an Algol Profile by Gary Allan Ruse, “As I started producing more, it was at the same time that science fiction became saleable,” she says, “So from then on I went into science fiction. This is Norton’s first science fiction title. Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D., Andre Norton (1952) ![]()
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