Andre Norton has a spiffy new website

The official Andre Norton website, staffed by volunteers, has been around since 2004 — but it's just gotten a major facelift. The new version is way easier to navigate and more searchable. And packed with videos of interviews as well as her appearances on convention panels. Definitely worth checking out!

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See the Andre Norton Documentary For the First Time at Dragon*Con!

There are many reasons to be excited about Dragon*Con this weekend — but now, here's one more huge reason. A new documentary about legendary author Andre Norton is premiering at the massive Atlanta convention on Friday. Here's the press release:

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Green Lantern's Not The Only One With Super-Powered Bling

Sure, Green Lantern's a fancy movie star now, with Ryan Reynolds set to play him, but the space cop with the magic ring isn't the first person to sport some bling with amazing super-powers. Here's our list of super-powered jewelry.

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Can You Come Up With A Science Fiction Book Cover Worse Than These?

Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they're up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below.

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The Ugly Fight For Andre Norton's Legacy

"I just don't want to be forgotten."

It's what Andre Norton told people before she left this world in 2005. With an ugly dispute over her work that finally concluded in the Tennessee Court of Appeals this week, that fate was probably ensured. Norton's caretaker Sue Stewart won her appeal against Texas oncologist Victor… Read…
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Andre Norton's Legacy Becomes A Battleground

You may soon get to read some unpublished works by science fiction grandmaster Andre Norton, author of Star Born, Star Ka'at, The Cross Roads Of Time and many other SF novels. Since Norton died in 2005, her will has been tied up in court, with her caretaker and her biggest fan both claiming the rights to her posthumous …

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Andre Norton's Time Traders Series Free Online

If you grew up reading Andre Norton's 1970s YA fiction like Star Ka'at, then you'll want to cast back further into history and check out some of the novels from her Time Traders series, many of which are free online. Today, the resourceful nerds at BoingBoing linked to the third book in the Cold War series that pits…

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Every Kid in the Universe Wants a Psychic Alien Cat Friend

kaatpic.jpgRecently, we talked about animal uplift stories, where non-human creatures gain human-like intelligence. Well, there's a subclass of that genre: the smart cat book. Every kid goes through a cat phase, and there's no shortage of scifi books that pander to this obsession. There are cat familiars, the Kzin of Larry…

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