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Norton, Andre THE TIME TRADERS [tt1] book-date: 1958 | |
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1974 4th Paperback Dean Ellis $1.25 VG+ to near-Fine | ||
This looks unread, but back cover has 4" fold-trace at top (left.) One of the 2 best covers for this book - nicely captures a scene / the central concept of the book. P. Schuyler Miller once said this about Norton's "Time Trader" series: "...the richness which Andre Norton lavishes on her portraits of the wonder-worlds of the Universe, the subtle warmth of the empathic relations she portrays between men and mutated animals... and above all the mysteries she suggests and half-reveals but does not explain away with rationalizations - these, in the words of another book, are stories, O my brothers!" I agree, and will cheerfully recommend any of the first 4 in this series (...but not the co-authored later entries.) | |||
The Time Traders is one of my favorite books by Norton, and I've read my copy many times, but long ago - for a decent plot summary/set-up and some commentary on Norton, I rely on P. Schuyler Miller, and use an excerpt from his review in Astounding/Analog (May 1960): He lands in England just as the trading post is destroyed by the "wrath of Lurgha" - a Soviet bombing raid. He and his more experienced partners follow a trail of clues into the eastern Baltic, then via the Soviet time-shuttle to Ice Age times, where the Russians have found not a lost civilization but the wrecked ship of an interplanetary empire. Soon the space people are involved… a wave of another migrating folk, the "Battle-Axe People," intervenes… and the plot grows happily tangled. The period is colorful and by no means stale, the details of the time-bases are nicely worked out, and the Aliens are properly menacing. In short, it's a grand job." [-P. Schuyler Miller] |