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A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.Tags
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DisassemblyOfReason In Norton's universe, Survey scouts make (sometimes temporary, sometimes arranged) marriages to produce sons who will make up the next generation of Scouts. The system, however, is dealing with people, who don't always fit their assigned roles. While Dread Companion shows what happened to a daughter rejected for her gender despite being fit for the Scout's life, The X Factor shows what happened to a son who didn't fit the expected psych profile of a Scout.
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A story about two children and their young nanny/au pair who is swept into another world where some of the inhabitants used to be human. By eating the available food in this place the people transform to become more mythical beasts, like fauns etc. Although the Au Pair, Kilda, is tempted she fights the temptation to find her way out of this.
It's wonderfully evocative of older mythical stories and although it has an overlay of science fiction, which adds to the confusion of the characters the core story is a very interesting quest story. The love story is also logical and makes sense in the context without feeling tacked on and silly.
It's wonderfully evocative of older mythical stories and although it has an overlay of science fiction, which adds to the confusion of the characters the core story is a very interesting quest story. The love story is also logical and makes sense in the context without feeling tacked on and silly.
Really fun fantasy of another dimension and a creature who turns out to be a human who was changed. Really enjoyable.
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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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- Canonical title*
- Die Welt der Grünen Lady
- Original title
- Dread Companion
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Kilda c' Rhyn; Lazk Volk (researcher); Guska Zobak; Bartare Zobak; Oomark Zobak (Bartare's brother); Commandant Piscov (show all 13); Gentlefem Piscov; Cury; Brolster; Melusa; Jorth Kosgro (First-In Scout, 25th Division, Argol Sector); Section Commander Weygil; Konroy Zobak (Guska's husband)
- Important places
- Chalox; Lattmah, Chalox; Dylan; Tamlin, Dylan
- First words
- But a few days ago (I shall never trust the divisions of time again and say with any certainty, "This is a day; that is a week; we face a year!") I was shown some very ancient tapes, copied, I was assured, from ones that ha... (show all)d been made originally on fabled Terra.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Gladly I did exchange the safety of Dylan for whatever might await the two of us beyond.
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 17
