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RIP Andre Norton. I remember as a kid saving my allowances and scrounging the used section of the Harvard Square Bookstore for books of hers I hadn't read yet, or sometimes splurging on a new one at the Coop. Like many other young girls, I missed the memo on only boys being interested in science fiction, and always felt that being forced to be Andre when she was really Alice Mary was an unthinkable injustice. Even with the name change, she was a pioneer for women in the genre, and in reading her obituary it is touching that until the end of her life she wanted to help make things easier for future writers. I can't say I kept up with her publications, especially once things spun off into cats in space sagas, but her Witch World and Apache books remain a treasured part of my childhood.