The Stars Are Ours! / 3 Faces of Time
by Andre Norton (Contributor), Sam Merwin, Jr. (Contributor)
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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
- The Stars Are Ours! / 3 Faces of Time
- Original title
- The Stars Are Ours!; 3 Faces of Time
- Original publication date
- 1955
- People/Characters
- Dard Nordis; Dessie Nordis; Elspeth Marriner; Mack Fraser; Gnaius Laconius; Ana Kai-Martinez (show all 8); Commander de Mestres; Berenice Agrippina
- Important places
- Terra; Astra [planet]; Alternate Earth
- Important events
- First Galactic Flight
- Dedication
- For Harlan Ellison Who is a veteran of galactic voyages and an ever prepared guide to the realms of outer Space
- First words
- THE FIRST GALACTIC exploratory and colonization flight came as a direct outgrowth of a peculiar sociological-political situation on the planet Terra.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Oh shut up, Mack," she said gently, and kissed him tenderly so as not to hurt his broken collar bone-and for once, during the blackness of transfer, she was not afraid.
- Blurbers
- Conklin, Groff
- Original language
- English US
- Disambiguation notice
- This Ace Double contains both The Three Faces of Time by Sam Merwin, jr. and The Stars Are Ours! by Andre Norton. It should not be combined with either individual work.
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