X Factor 1ST Edition

by Andre Norton

Diskan Fentress, mutant son of an interstellar explorer, felt himself out of place on the luxury worlds of civilized space. It was not until he stole a spaceship and a travel key to the unexplored planet Mimir that he first felt his latent powers to be of some worth.

For Mimir was a world of strange relics, of beasts that were more than beasts, and of a ruined city whose shadows bespoke a higher and weirder civilization than any the galaxy had yet discovered. It was to fall to Diskan's lot to meet head-on that ancient world's "X Factor," and to settle the fate of a planet with his reaction.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sci Fi Fantasy

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Andre Norton, born Alice Mary Norton, was a pioneering American author of science fiction and fantasy, widely regarded as the Grande Dame of those genres. She also wrote historical and contemporary fiction, publishing under the pen names Andre Alice Norton, Andrew North, and Allen Weston. She launched her career in 1934 with The Prince Commands, adopting the name “Andre” to appeal to a male readership. After working for the Cleveland Library System and the Library of Congress, she began publishing science fiction under “Andrew North” and fantasy under her own name. She became a full-time writer in 1958 and was known for her prolific output, including Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. and Witch World, the latter spawning a long-running series and shared universe. Norton was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America and authored Quag Keep, the first novel based on the Dungeons & Dragons game. She influenced generations of writers, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Mercedes Lackey. Among her many honors were being the first woman named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master. In her later years, she established the High Hallack Library to support research in genre fiction. Her legacy continues with the Andre Norton Award for young adult science fiction and fantasy.

Reviews

[Dirk Grobbelaar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I realise that this book is not recognised as one of Norton's better works, but I enjoyed it. In fact, I enjoyed it a lot. Perhaps I simply lack a frame of reference (this is my first Norton). I suspect I'm reading too much into it, but the ending was (to me) fairly ambiguous. That's the beauty of reading I suppose, and if I wanted to interpret Diskan's (or Xcothal's) metamorphosis as something metaphysical... well, I suppose that's my privilege, even if I'm dead wrong. I reckon I'll be checking out more of Norton's work.

[Kathryn · Rating 2 out of 5]

The X Factor, while not one of Norton's best, gives an example of her plotting and characterization abilities. The main character, Diskan (I’m guessing “Dees-kahn”) Fentress, is the product of what appears to have been an arranged marriage between two very intelligent individuals, with the goal of producing a mutant with special abilities and high intelligence. Diskan turned out to be very large and somewhat awkward, so naturally, everyone assumed that he was stupid and couldn’t do anything right. They made him nervous, which only exacerbated the problem. So he steals a ship and escapes to an interdicted alien world. While struggling for life there, he learns that he does in fact have considerable psychic ability, and is perfectly capable of accomplishing delicate tasks when he is not being watched and insulted.

The story follows the pattern of the monomyth. Diskan embarks on a perilous journey to and then on an unfamiliar planet. He is somewhat unwillingly thrust into a quest, on which he has several companions. He loses his companions, and must complete his quest alone and unaided. The general plotline, thus, is not entirely original, but that’s not a bad thing. Everyone likes hero myths, and this one is entertaining, particularly if you like space opera.

The reason I say that this book isn’t one of Norton’s best is that Diskan’s characterization, while interesting, was somewhat flat (to me), and I felt that the book had too many mysteries and not enough explanation. I like mysterious shenanigans and goings-on in my books, but I like them to be explained at the end. This book gave some explanation, but left several questions insufficiently answered.

[™ · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 ⭐️ Book 1 out of 4 of the random ones from this author my mother found at the thrift store and gave me 😂 I was not a fan of this one - way too much left unexplained. Why was this character such a misfit? How did his telepathic abilities come to be? What happened to the city? What was the deal with the creatures who lived there? Also the first 50% was pretty boring since the narrator was just wandering around the planet without any real purpose. It was short so I finished it (and will read the others from this author that I was given since I have them) but definitely wouldn’t recommend/wouldn’t have kept reading if I had gotten it from the library

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, coming in at 158 pages, was written in 1965, the year I was born. I am old.
This is back when Andre Norton was writing novels based in a common space traveling universe, where hard science often butted heads with "magic".
You can see a lot of the same themes in these early books as in her later fantasies. They are very different from the Witch World, but there are likenesses too. There are the forces of good against greed and evil. Nature and animals are often much more than they seem
Not my favorite Andre Norton, mostly because she kind of punted the ending. It was very vague and while it was satisfying that our boy Diskan Fentriss got his happy ending, I can't exactly say what that was.

[Emily D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This little retro paperback is sci-fi but definitely has a fantasy aspect to it with the telepathic panther-like creatures and magical ruined city. I liked the action sequences in the story but disliked the vague explanations of thoughts and plot movement. It was a little too ethereal for my ideal science fiction.

[Doris · Rating 4 out of 5]

The X Factor takes a lonely, awkward teen named Diskan Fentress, who is neither liked nor accepted in his home, and moves him into a space-faring adventure. At home, he lives with his stepfamily, who have a perfect life with their delicate, perfect family, none of whom understand Diskan. He is clumsy and slow, and they think of him as half-witted, fit only for menial labor, and a disgrace to the clan. They are all delicate, he is sturdy. They are thin and graceful, he is large and awkward. They never tell him he is not wanted, but he feels that he is out of place in their society (keeping in mind that this was written long ago, and that being very different in any society can make you feel out of place, especially when you are a teen).

Diskan takes a chance and escapes into space, using some discs that vaguely suggest mini-cds, and winds up on the planet Xcothal where humans are forbidden to visit. During his time there, he learns that he is neither stupid nor useless, having considerable psychic ability, and the grace to achieve delicate work when he is not supervised, or worse, pushed out of the way for fear he will damage whatever it is he is working on.

Some of the issues I had with this story include the fact that Diskan accepted the "Brothers in Fur" at once, rejected the other humans, and seems at ease with his physic ability even though he knew nothing of it before reaching Xcothal. I liked the light patterns, and the overall storyline, and athough we get an idea what raiders want here, we never really learn the whole story.

I was uncomfortable with the whole 'fitting in' with the Brothers in Fur, because it seemed as though he went from being a standout in one group due to his size and gracelessness to being part of another group – even though the same conditions apply.

I would have liked to know more about Diskan's background and his parents. It would be especially interesting to learn where the latent physic talents came from, some hint that a parent could "read minds" or the like.

There were places where I felt additional characterization was necessary, as in building up what a "Jack" was (although I get the vague impression that they were named for the pirates of the high seas, whose flag was a perverted Union Jack). Also, there were places where more could have been explained – why does the family and society reject Diskan; why were the Brothers in Fur locked out of their home; why are so many people so eager to exploit this world?

However – all that aside, this is a really good read, with interesting characters, that although it could use more character building, it deals with an age old theme, on the star lanes, taking a rejected character and showing us, and him, that he has worth and a destiny, regardless of what he has been led to believe.

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Proving once again that it is hard to re-visit old science fiction books from my childhood. I was reviewing my shelves and came across this slim 158 pp volume from Andre Norton. There are plenty of her books that I have read several times, but I did not really recall the plot of this book so I thought since I am really between books I would give it a try.

Deskan Fentiss is one of Norton's typical characters. An outsider with some mental telepathy talents with animals. His father is a Scout, an explorer who goes from planet to planet trying to find habitable worlds for humans to colonize. Under the Scout charter, he is allowed to couple with residents of worlds with the idea of passing on his unique talents to the world. He meets and marries Deskan's Mom, then leaves and Deskan believes he is dead. Deskan is odd, too big for his body and clumsy. He hides his mental talents. His mother dies at his birth and he is given menial jobs.

His father, who he believed was dead returns and gets his son and takes him to another world to live with his new wife and family, but again Deskan does not fit in.

He breaks into his father's study and finds 3 red disks, identifying planets that are odd. He picks one, goes to a star field and steals a ship which crash lands on the world. There he meets strange telepathic animals the Brothers in Fur, the thal, who want to use him to open an ancient city X Cothal to how it was. He can communicate in a fashion because of his telepathy

Meanwhile, there is an expedition on planet of Archeologists who are searching the ancient ruins for treasure. They however run into Jacks and other thieves, who are on planet to steal the treasure.


Deskan and the brothers in fur must make as to what to do regarding the archeologists, the thieves, and whether or not Deskan has finally found a place where he fits.

Its a good adventure novel, but didn't transport me as much as some of her other books with similar themes.

[Catching Shadows · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, this was a fairly good read, though I realize that many people may disagree. I read this many years ago, and a lot of it stuck with me to this day. Diskan Fentress is abandoned at birth due to being a mutant. Due to being very large and very strong, he is put to work at an early age. Our Boy has psychic powers he has never bothered to tell anyone about. Eventually his father reclaims him, and things are very awkward for Diskan and his step mom and step siblings. Diskan, being full of the angst ends up stealing a ship, and crash landing on a distant planet being surveyed by scientists. Things Happen. Some of them very disturbing.

[Len · Rating 3 out of 5]

Diskan Fentress was born oversized, clumsy and physical and pushed into a world of the lithe, deft and articulate. His father, Renfry, was a First-in Scout, an explorer of newly discovered worlds. His mother had been human, more or less, such was the way of breeding further Scouts. Perhaps something went wrong with Diskan, so he ended up being used as a labourer for the heavy and dirty jobs that the Vaanchard people felt were beneath their luxurious artistry. That is only perhaps. I feel there is something missing from this story.

One of the planets explored by Renfry Fentress was Mimir, and Mimir houses an extraordinary thing: the ancient city of Xcothal, ruinous to the visible eye but filled with extraordinary life to the one who can enter. For some reason, it is not explained in the book, that has to be a human mutated in such a way as to be able to communicate telepathically with intelligent animals: the brothers-in-fur that inhabit Mimir. There are bits and pieces of legend that suggest Xcothal houses a treasure beyond price. Renfry went there and Renfry fathered a child with mutations. Later Renfry went back into space and was able to leave the marriage legally. It is thought that he died on a mission but he turns up alive, married to an alien female – she was on the ship that rescued him. Renfry had an association with aliens, he had knowledge of the ruins of Xcothal, and he had son born with the physique to explore rugged territory and a mind mutated into telepathy. It's almost as if Diskan had been designed for a purpose.

Sadly, Andre Norton did not go down this line of thought, though I think it may have been there in the background. Diskan steals one of father's travel disks, it just happens to be the one that will take him to Mimir, with ridiculous ease – he avoids detection by hiding behind a curtain and then climbing out of the window. He hijacks a space ship, inserts the disk in the appropriate slot, and away he goes into deep space. No one notices. It is almost as if his actions had been pre-planned by someone else.

Once on Mimir the action settles into a Norton SF adventure and, as often with Andre Norton there is a sense of folklore stirred into the mix. Diskan, the valiant knight, is summoned to join the fight to free noble Xcothal from the smothering dark. As this is SF, however, Diskan cannot be absolutely certain if he is fighting for good against evil – not at the start. The clues seem to be there: one side swirls to its strongest with the onset of night and carries with it the stink of corrupted mire and slime trails that suggest invertebrates of a worrying size – in fact, later in the story, Diskan confronts one and it is more worrying than a giant slug; while the other shimmers with shining sparks and drifting shadows and has the brothers-in-fur protecting it – not cuddly creatures, not cuddly at all, but stalwart defenders of something worth bringing back to life.

And then Xcothal fades into the background for a significant part of the story as Diskan finds two members of a stranded archaeological team that arrived on Mimir before him. One is a young human woman, unusually for Norton's SF she has a mind of her own and doesn't mind putting Diskan in his place, and the other is a reptilian Zacathan academic. He is the one who explains the X factor and, for the story, it is thing that can safely be ignored: it's a term that tantalises but really signifies little more than chance and the way an individual might use it. The three stumble around in the dark, fungus filled passages deep inside Xcothal and end up being chased by a group of Jacks (they are described as people who prey “on traders and colonists on frontier worlds”, basically they are looters.)

The chase goes on. The Zacathan is wounded and the young woman is just about ready to give Diskan a thump for not doing what he is told, when our hero decides he can go for help. He doesn't find it, first time, in fact he gets captured by the Jacks and forced back into Xcothal.

It is at this point that the mysticism of Xcothal and the brothers-in-fur returns. The furry brothers use their telepathy to get Diskan to cooperate in resuscitating the never-to-be-forgotten city and at same time set the Jacks to fighting each other. Right at the end there is a wonderful little piece of dialogue as Diskan is telling Julha, the young woman, that he cannot leave the planet but must return to Xcothal and remain there, regardless of the presence of their heavily armed enemies:

“There are those who await me there with a welcome I have never known in your world,” [says Diskan].

“You can't!” [replies Julha]. “You'll be rayed by the Jacks.”

I suppose it's my Liverpool upbringing, but it does sound like a euphemism for a knee in the dangly bits. It made me laugh anyway.

A good Norton tale, well told as always, but it could have been more interesting without Julha, the Zacathan and the Jacks.

[S.j. Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

The X Factor, by Andre Norton, 1965. A classic pulpy sci-fi featuring Diskan Fentress, the son of famous galaxy scout Renfry Fentress and a Nyborg woman named Lilha Clyas. Diskan's adventures lead him to steal a ship, which he crash lands on Mimir, a mostly uninhabited planet rumored to have untold riches hidden within a crumbling city's walls. Mimir is home to the 'brothers in fur', a race of super intelligent creatures who communicate telepathically. Diskan also meets up with a famous archeologist, the Zacathan named Zimgrald and his adopted daughter, a human mutant named Juhla. Space pirates are on the hunt for the treasures, there's conflict, a daring escape from the city of Xcothal using underground tunnels and help from the brothers in fur. There's something odd about the city itself though and Diskan seems to be the only one who can figure out what it is. He has "the X factor" which allows him to see what's really there, under the facade of decay and ruin.
The plot moves along fairly quickly, and the characters are interesting. I find it weird that even though these sci-fi stories are set in futuristic worlds with unimaginable advances in technology, the author still finds it necessary to make a point of explaining briefly the notion of the arranged marriages that space explorers are encouraged to partake in. Definitely not the best old paperback I've read, but worth the time to see how the author crafts the story.

[Wilson E. Stevens Sr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not one of her best books. It was written so she would be able to use the X in a title, as her goal was to write a book for every letter of the alphabet. She succeeded. Several problems with this book, the rockets were based on the WWII German V3 missiles, and landed tail down. What they used for fuel we don't know. She did put the passengers into suspended animation however, which was one of the first authors to do this. When the rocket crashed, there was a way to save the pilot, but no provision for any supplies. Little oversight their I think. She had a work around however. Again she uses mental telepathy with animals as one of the first or the first to introduce this concept to Science Fiction literature. The ending was very poor in my opinion, and could have worked out better. The ending is why I rated the story so low.

[Gilda Felt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was sort of afraid to read this book. It’s one of the few Andre Norton book that I hadn’t read before, or it’s been so many years that I’ve forgotten it. She brought me into science fiction as a young girl, so going back can always be fraught with danger. I shouldn’t have worried.

While I wouldn’t say it was one of her best, I had no trouble getting into the story. A great deal of it is Fentress’ point of view, as he’s the only character involved in almost half the book, yet it wasn’t boring. Which is something that I find often happens when there’s a lot of telling, rather than showing.

I’ve never cared for ambiguous ending, but there was enough there that I could go with what I thought would happen and be happy with that. The novel is part of the Game of Stars and Comets series, but the only commonality is the universe they’re set in, so no chance of a set ending.

[Jodi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Leider konnte ich mit diesem Werk überhaupt nichts anfangen und wäre es nicht für eine Challenge gewesen, hätte ich es nach kurzer Zeit wieder weggelegt. Aber was tut man nicht alles für eine Challenge...

Es könnte am Schreibstil gelegen haben, denn ich kam überhaupt nicht in die Geschichte rein. An keiner einzigen Stelle. Diskan blieb für mich nichts weiter als ein Name auf meinem E-Reader. Er hatte keine Kontur, kein Gesicht. Gerade mal eine wage menschliche Struktur konnte ich in ihm erkennen.

Deswegen interessierte es mich auch nicht die Bohne, was er nun auf diesem Planet alles tut oder nicht tut. Die Tiere, die er trifft, hätten interessant sein können, aber zu diesem Zeitpunkt war es für mich bereits zu spät und ich wollte dieses Buch einfach nur beendet haben.

[Stephen Burridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have positive memories of reading Andre Norton as a child, and even now as an older adult I sometimes try another of her novels. I’m often disappointed. I enjoyed The X Factor more than most, mainly because something about the main character and his alienation from the human society around him struck a chord. I liked his growth and opening into competence and thought the ending worked well for him. It’s great to confirm that there can be something more than nostalgia bringing me back to Norton. It’s clear that she worked hard at her craft and took it seriously. I’m guessing, though, that for modern readers coming to her books without nostalgia, the mid-20th century genre cliches and other limitations are harder to forgive.

[Sean Hall · Rating 2 out of 5]

Norton's writing was really hard to get into at first. I had to reread the first few pages before I felt I could settle in and follow along. There is some good word building and descriptions, but too much attention is given to the language and not enough to plot progression. I decided to stop reading it around page 80.

[Terry Mulcahy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andre Norton is one hell of a writer. I've read her books before, and as always, I was drawn right in. I read what I could 5 days ago, but had to put it aside, regrettably, because the story is good. Space Opera? Sure, but of a different kind, a deep, thinking, philosophical kind. From 1965. The pace is quick because the writing is good, really, really good.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid science fiction adventure from Norton. Diskan Fentress is the son of a space explorer but does not fit in his world, too clumsy, too slow of thought. Desperate to get away, he steals both a space vessel and a map disc to an unexplored planet. After a crash landing he must raise capabilities he did not know he possessed in order to survive...and he is not alone.

[Robert (NurseBob) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Human misfit steals spaceship and lands on an alien version of Brigadoon where he contends with telepathic meerkats and space pirates. Repetitious and tedious, the story plods along making its 158 pages seem more like 400 (thanks in part to the tiny print) and that big dramatic payoff sort of fizzles and pops. Definitely not her best.

[Marie Hurt · Rating 4 out of 5]

What’s not to love about an outsider finding a home?

[Gena Lott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Norton tells a great story. She just keeps getting better and better!

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

A standard Andre Norton--which I like and give 3 stars.

[Patricia Cochrane · Rating 3 out of 5]

different

[James]

The mutant son of a space explorer crashes on an unknown planet where he discovers a new species of kindred animals with which he can communicate.

[Rosemary Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book and "Dread Companion" are both stories of the child of a scout on a planet assignment. "Scouts, assigned for periods of time to planet duty, were encouraged to contract Service marriages." Not exactly a series but interesting when read as if they were one. My copies are old and not in the best condition any more. It may be 10 years between readings, but they are well worth repeated readings.

[Valerie]

There's something missing here. Why CAN'T Diskan Fentress fit into Vaan society? Why is he so out of place among peaceful, graceful people? It's bad enough that the overarching galactic civilization is so unskilled at finding causes and solutions for developmental disabilities. But Diskan's Vaan stepmother and stepsiblings are as hopeless as his biological father at finding a way to reach him.

So he has to rebel and flee to Xcothal. Why is it so easy for him to fit in there? Oh, it's not without snarls and snares. But it takes less than a month, and he fits in as if he was born there. Actually, BETTER than if he was born there.

This is one of the few books in which the foster-parentage and education of the Zacathans has little to no effect. True, the Zacathan is badly injured--but so have those in other books been, and THEY'VE done all right. I should point out that the treatment of an injured reptile is poorly reckoned. An injured reptile would not be feverish, which is an endothermic response. It also wouldn't help, as I've pointed out before, to wrap a reptile in blankets (unless they're electric blankets). With little internal heat production, the blankets would keep heat out, not in.

Norton had odd ideas about life in general. In this book she distinguishes between 'animals' and 'reptiles'. She describes bogs, meadows, and groves as having 'no sign of life' (Wait, aren't plants alive?) She describes living things as 'unnatural' (an oxymoron, unless you're dealing with cultivars), or 'evil' (as if plants could have intentions, a dubious imputation). She frequently describes plants and fungi as exuding acidic semi-fluids. I don't know of any such plants. Even mildly irritating exudations (as, poison ivy) are not found everywhere, and more severe poisons are most frequently alkaloids, and dangerous only on ingestion.

As I've mentioned before, causelessly hostile animals are a too-common element in Norton's work. Ruthless intelligent life is barely plausible, because they are usually at least peripheral to a society that has at least some surplus, ao they can overspend (effort, materials, etc), and can steal more than they spend. Non-social animals are highly unlikely to be able to survive this way, no matter how often they successfully win unprovoked fights. They'd starve, if they weren't critically injured in such fights (or killed, as here). How are enough of them surviving to produce offspring?

[Andrewcharles420 · Rating 2 out of 5]

The main character is supposedly a clumsy, slow, outsider, living with his accomplished father and step family. He yearns for an escape and steals the directions to a recently discovered planet not scheduled for any settlements or immigration, and then steals a ship and sets off. He wanders through a hostile environment and old ruins, and comes to be guided by 'furred ones', some seemingly telepathic furry creatures who usually stay just out of sight. He runs into an archeological team, and then is chased and captured by grave-robber pirates. He is telepathically instructed to get them high (burn the red leaves), and eventually escapes them.

I did not believe the pretense in the book that the main character was that clumsy or cloudy-headed. In all the action scenes he holds his own like a typical sci-fi action hero, and even when he was setting up his first camp (which he was woefully unprepared for), he did fine. The book too often took the reader into the main character's trances, adopting the made-up, unexplained vocabulary and place-names without adequate preparation.

I enjoyed the close (sometimes verging on telepathic) connection between humans and animals, much like the previous book of Norton's that I read. I also liked that the female character had a name, position, and personality, without being a love interest or mother/sister/wife (though, apart from scant mentions of a step-sister, she was the only woman).

Not the most interesting book, and not the most satisfying ending; this is not a book I would recommend reading.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of Andre Norton's classic 'misfit outsider' stories, Diskan doesn't fit into his adoptive family or his new home at all, being the physical and cultural opposite of that culture's ideals. He steals a spaceship and flees to a mysterious planet and through the subsequent adventure finds his true strengths.

This criminal hero is very similar to other Norton works like Night of Masks and The Time Traders. This one has a very bizarre setting with some possibly fantasy elements that leads to a very ambiguous happy ending. An excellent read from the Queen of classic YA SF.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reliving this favorite from my early teens I find as an adult I'm a little perplexed by what Ms. Norton is getting at in this. Parts of it are a bit bizarre and metaphysical for Norton. The ending is ambiguous, closer to what I would expect from a counter culture "new wave" 1960s science fiction writer than to Norton. Otherwise it is typical of her work, having an indescribable tone of antiquity and mysticism while still making satisfying use of all the best science fiction memes of its day. Her worlds, and especially her aliens and lost civilizations, seem real yet not quite real, but surely they must exist somewhere. This mystical tone is the reason I enjoy Norton.

As an added bonus, The X Factor fits in with much of the rest of Norton's universe in that it features a Zacathan, a recurring species in many of her novels most notably "The Last Planet."

[Alien · Rating 2 out of 5]

Diskan Fentress ist der Sohn des berühmten galaktischen Scouts Renfry Fentress. Dieser hatte sich mit seiner Mutter nur aus dem Grund zusammen getan, um mit ihren tollen Erbanlagen einen genetisch wertvollen Menschen zu zeugen, der für den Raumdienst geeignet wäre. Seine Mutter starb bei der Geburt, der Vater war auf einer Mission verschollen und der Plan ging nicht auf. Diskan war ungeeignet: körperlich ungeschickt und geistig auch keine Leuchte. Er hasst sich selber dafür.

Ein dürres Terra-Bändchen, was eine überraschend gute goodreads-Wertung hat. Anfangs gefiel mir der Antiheld, doch die Handlung entwickelt sich reichlich unglaubwürdig. Und es wurde langweilig. Der Anreiz, rauszufinden, wie es weitergeht, fehlte auch weitgehend. Abgebrochen auf S. 72 von 159.

[Kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun atmospheric space adventure. Whilst Norton does not here excel at dialogue she more than makes up for it with the journey around the dream-like planet and the journey Diskan makes to find where he belongs. Not the most original or groundbreaking work you'll read but more a good old fashioned sci-fi serial with some interesting things to say.