Short Fiction

Name: Short Fiction
Author: Andre Norton

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The People of the Crater

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

Key Out of Time
If you like your time travel scrappy rather than tidy, Ross Murdock stranded in an alien planet's past, with a Polynesian diver and two trained dolphins for company, is good fun. Norton keeps it fast and a little pulpy, and the veiled Foanna give it a nice eerie edge.
Plague Ship
Dane Thorson and the Solar Queen crew trade catnip with cat-like aliens on Sargol, then start dropping unconscious one by one and get branded a plague ship nobody will let land. Old-fashioned pulpy fun, brisk and earnest, good when you want a light adventure that doesn't dawdle.
Ralestone Luck
If you want a lazy-afternoon adventure, this delivers: three broke siblings move into their crumbling Louisiana plantation and hunt for a lost family sword, with swamps, hidden passages, and a rival claimant thrown in. It's early Norton, pulpy and dated in spots, but cheerfully so.