Quag Keep

Apr. 11th, 2016 11:21 pm
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Quag Keep by Andre Norton

The very, very, very first D&D tie in.  An actual D&D tie in -- not Advanced D&D.  (Which is why it talks of Law and Chaos.  The nine-fold square does not apply here.)

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Ripping off other people's stories is a classic way to get ideas.

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Odd thing in my reading lately:  a number of stories making good use of feudal, or almost feudal, loyalties.

Now, there's no denying that this makes a wonderful plot device for supplying even a down-and-out noble with forces and cannon fodder in general, who are willing to do the difficult or impossible in aid of the noble.

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Forerunner Foray by Andre Norton

The third in the series, though much less connected than Storm Over Warlock and Ordeal in Otherwhere. (Blink and you'll miss it.)  And it opens on the same planet where Catseye takes place
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Ordeal In Otherwhere by Andre Norton

The sequel to Storm Over Warlock -- a fact I never knew until many years after I read this one.  (I was rather young when that happened.)

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Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton

A far future SF story, though they still remember that humans are Terrans.

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Catseye

Jul. 2nd, 2013 10:31 pm
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Catseye by Andre Norton

Troy Horan lives in the Dipple, where the refugees of the war were dumped -- and left when the peace treaty signed away their worlds.  His father had enlisted in the war, and his mother died when the Big Cough struck.  Troy is still trying to eke out a living as casual labor, rather than sign a contract that lets him be shipped off in cold sleep, or join the Thieves' Guild.

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Ice Crown

Jun. 22nd, 2013 03:42 pm
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Ice Crown by Andre Norton

A tale of the far future.  The planet Clio was the subject of an experiment by the centuries ago Psychocrats, seeded with people conditioned to develop the history they wanted, and carefully sealed since its discovery, to protect its inhabitants from the trauma of realizing that.  But there appear to be Forerunner artifacts on the planet, so a carefully secret mission goes to attempt to retrieve them.

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Dread Companion by Andre Norton

The clearest example I've ever found of a work that is both SF and fantasy.

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