Sargasso Of Space
Just finished reading "Sargasso Of Space" by Andre Norton, first published by Gnome Press back in 1955, under her Andrew North pen name.
It's still hard to believe that once upon a time in the past that a talented writer had to hide her gender at the request of her publishers who were concerned - rather foolishly - that readers would not read a great story by a gasp - woman writer. Thankfully times changed by the 1960s.
I first discovered "Sargasso Of Space" - the first book in the original Solar Queen series - on the shelves of the science fiction section at Michelle's Bookstore in the Bryn Myar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina in the early 1970s. I picked up my re-reading copy for my "Great Re-Reading Project of Books I Enjoyed from My Youth" project at Chamblins' Bookmine - the greatest bookstore on the East Coast - here in Jacksonville, Florida.
When new Training Pool graduate Dane Thorson receives his assignment, he's not exactly thrilled to learn that he's been assigned as a cargo apprentice to the Free Trader Solar Queen. Thorson had been hoping to be assigned to one of the corporate interstellar trading ships. He soon fits in with his new ship and soon the crew of the Solar Queen is off to explore the planet Limbo - a planet they won by bidding on it in a Patrol Auction. Yet Limbo is not what it first appears to be - a planet burned off in the great war of the Forerunners and it seems that the Guild are using it as a base.
Great Classic Science Fiction by Andre Norton - my favorite author.
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Sargasso-Space...
It's still hard to believe that once upon a time in the past that a talented writer had to hide her gender at the request of her publishers who were concerned - rather foolishly - that readers would not read a great story by a gasp - woman writer. Thankfully times changed by the 1960s.
I first discovered "Sargasso Of Space" - the first book in the original Solar Queen series - on the shelves of the science fiction section at Michelle's Bookstore in the Bryn Myar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina in the early 1970s. I picked up my re-reading copy for my "Great Re-Reading Project of Books I Enjoyed from My Youth" project at Chamblins' Bookmine - the greatest bookstore on the East Coast - here in Jacksonville, Florida.
When new Training Pool graduate Dane Thorson receives his assignment, he's not exactly thrilled to learn that he's been assigned as a cargo apprentice to the Free Trader Solar Queen. Thorson had been hoping to be assigned to one of the corporate interstellar trading ships. He soon fits in with his new ship and soon the crew of the Solar Queen is off to explore the planet Limbo - a planet they won by bidding on it in a Patrol Auction. Yet Limbo is not what it first appears to be - a planet burned off in the great war of the Forerunners and it seems that the Guild are using it as a base.
Great Classic Science Fiction by Andre Norton - my favorite author.
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Sargasso-Space...
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