Warlock of the Witch World
by Andre Norton
Witch World: Estcarp Cycle (4), Hexenwelt (Book 4), Witch World: Publication Order (1967), Witch World (05)
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Kemoc, one of the Witch World triplets, has to rescue his sister who has fallen under the spell of a man who plans to take over Estcarp.Tags
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I first read this as a teenager. A girl in class whom I hardly knew lent it to me 'I think you'll like it, my brother raves about it'. It totally blew me away then, and having re-read it twice the effect is the same. Why, I don't quite know. Fantasy as a genre was in its infancy when I first read it, maybe it was the shock of the new. Visions of its strange landscape still enter my mind at random intervals...that's how strong an effect it has. Andre Norton was a genius.
This is definitely a guilty pleasure. I don't know why this half fish/half man was so romantically compelling...but who can predict romantic attraction?
Again Andre Norton drew me into the story just like the first time I read it back in the 80s.
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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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Witch World: Estcarp Cycle
10 works (4)
Hexenwelt
10 works (Book 4)
Witch World: Publication Order
32 works (1967)
Witch World
28 works (05)
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- Canonical title
- Warlock of the Witch World
- Original title
- Warlock of the Witch World
- Original publication date
- 1967
- People/Characters
- Dahaun (Lady of the Green Silences); Dinzil; Ethutur (warlord of the Green Silences); Foruw (Mosswife); Frono (Mosswife); Fubbi (Mosswife) (show all 14); Fuusu (Mosswife); Fyngri (Mosswife); Godgar; Loskeetha; Orsya; Kaththea Tregarth; Kemoc Tregarth; Kyllan Tregarth
- Important places
- Valley of Green Silences, Escore, Witch World; moss land, Escore, Witch World; Garden of Stones, Escore, Witch World; Dark Tower, Escore, Witch World
- First words
- It has been an oft-told story of our birthing that our mother, the Lady Jaelithe (she who put aside her witchhood in Estcarp to wed the outland warrior, Simon Tregarth), did demand of some Power she served certain gifts for u... (show all)s, whom she bore in great and painful travail. That she named my brother Kyllan, warrior, my sister Kaththea, witch (or one to control powers), and asked for me, wisdom. But it has been that my wisdom consists in knowing that I know very little, though the thirst for learning has ever been in me. Only, in spite of all my striving, I have done no more than nibble at the edges of knowledge's rich cake, liplicked the goblet of true wisdom. But perhaps to know one's limitations is, in itself, a kind of sagecraft.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And our tale of three has not yet ended.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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