Secret of the Lost Race

by Andre Norton

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interesting, but the writing quality was patchy and it seemed to end just as the plot was starting to get going.
Jokar grew up in N'Yok's dingy streets, amidst the underworld, there he worked as a dealer. During a routine sweep of the underworld for undesirables he's captured and the amulet he wore for years confiscated. The amulet he'd inherited from his mother, but this hides much more than just his past, it hides the future of the human race.
Back when I was reading Andre Norton, this was one of my favorite of her science fiction books.
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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
Secret of the Lost Race
Alternate titles
Wolfshead
Original publication date
1959
People/Characters
Councilor Cullan; Ebers (boss of Skene mob on Fenris); Hogan; Bran Hudd (private investigator); Joktar (star-and-comet dealer at the SunSpot); Kern (owner of the SunSpot) (show all 27); Kronfeld (Director, Colonization Project); Lennox (Commander, Space Scouts, Fifth Sector); Sen Yen Lui (Commander-in-Chief, Space Scouts, Fifth Sector); Bryar Morle; Orrin (bodyguard, SunSpot); Rysdyke (cashiered pilot); Samms (boss of Kortoski mob on Fenris); Mahabi Kabali (Space Admiral, Commanding Fifth Sector); Haggy (bartender of the SunSpot); Step (bartender of the SunSpot); Merrick (Fenris Free Man); Naolas (Fenris Free Man); Roose (Fenris Free Man); Raymark (former boss of the Kortoski mob on Fenris); Tolkus (Fenris Free Man); Gagly (pilot, Kortoski mob on Fenris); Waigh (Harband Mining Company boss); Alvarn Thomlistos; Sa Kim (Harband VIP); Rog Kilinger (Space Scout); Morre
Important places
JetTown, Port of N'Yok, Terra; Fenris (3rd planet of Zeta Lupi); Loki (2nd planet of Zeta Lupi)
First words
Confidential: X3457-A-R-
From: Kronfeld, Director, Colonization Project 308
To: Lennox, Commander, Space Scouts, Fifth Sector, Detached Rating.
Subject: Service Files.
Require release to this department service fi... (show all)les for following:
O-S-S-D 451 Marson, H. Deceased.
O-S-S-D 489 Ksanga, V.T. Deceased.
JetTown, Port of N'Yok, where strange wares were sold for the amusement, fair or foul, of crewmen out of space, and those who preyed upon them, and the elite who took their cut from the predators in turn.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And Joktar, seeing what lay in the other's eyes, was moved to a conviction which banished all the wariness he had learned from his father's unpredictable breed.

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Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS3527 .O632 .S42Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960

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