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Two human orphans expand their relationship with a super race of cats and travel to their world where they soon feel more like prisoners than guests.Tags
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I loved it as a kid, and got it for my own kid. Then I re-read it. Yup, it's still a lovely classic about a world of telepathic cats, and the stray human children those cats adopted ("they followed me home! can I keep them?"). Xenophobic, extinct humanoids have left their mark on the ka'at world -- and it turns out that opposable thumbs can be handy in turning those ancient deathtraps *off*.
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Born Alice Mary Norton on February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio, she legally changed her name to Andre Alice Norton in 1934. She attended the Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve) for a year then took evening courses in journalism and writing that were offered by Cleveland College, the adult division of show more the same university. Norton was a librarian for the Cleveland Library System then a reader at Gnome Press. After that position, she became a full-time writer. She is most noted for writing fantasy, in particular the Witch World series. Her first book The Prince of Commands was published in 1934. Other titles include Ralestone Luck, Magic in Ithkar, Voorloper, Uncharted Stars, The Gifts of Asti and All Cats are Gray. She also wrote under the pen names Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston She was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and the Nebula Grand Master Award. She has also received a Phoenix Award for overall writing achievement, a Jules Verne Award, and a Science Fiction Book Club Book of the Year Award for her title The Elvenbane. In 1997 she was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She died on March 17, 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Elly Mae Brown; Jim Evans; Mer [ka'at]; Tiro [ka'at]
- Important places
- Zimmorah
- First words
- A wind blew the grasses so they bowed and rustled, while overhead hung a warm sun.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There was certainly a lot to do for a full Ka'at-kin - he was proud of that, knowing what it meant for Tiro to call him by that name - to do on Zimmorah in the future.
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- Languages
- Danish, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
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