Star Ka'ats and the Winged Warriors
by Andre Norton (Author), Dorothy H. Madlee (Author)
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The Star Ka'ats make an interplanetary journey to another ka'at colony where life forms have grown to monstrous proportions and nearly exterminated the ka'at colonists.Tags
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I liked the story in this book. It's impressive how much Andre Norton can weave into one middle-grade novel. I especially like that while the giant insects are dangerous, they are not depicted as evil, and there turns out to be a good reason why they are so aggressive. I was disappointed in the Star Ka'ats for their inability to understand and work with their cat companions on the Star Ka'ats' homeworld, since their solution, removing the cats who are unable to act like ka'ats to a different planet rather than seeking to understand the psychological underpinnings of cat behavior, seems like a way of avoiding rather than actually dealing with the differences between cats and ka'ats.
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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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- 1981
- People/Characters
- Elly Mae Brown; Jim Evans; Mer [ka'at]; Tiro [ka'at]
- First words
- Jim Evans lay on his back in the tall grass.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But they had to - they just had to!
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