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Mar. 18th, 2005 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonRIP 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.
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a brief remembrance of my childhood with Andre Norton
Date: 2005-03-18 06:47 pm (UTC)damn but she was prolific. *sad smile*
Re: a brief remembrance of my childhood with Andre Norton
Date: 2005-03-18 06:53 pm (UTC)I don't know why I thought Apache, of course he was Sioux. One of the things that struck me about those books as a kid was that they showed that a person who you tend to think of as being in a different category than oneself ("an Indian") could go into situations where you didn't necessarily picture them. It was a good lesson for a kid to learn.
Not only was she prolific, but she knew how to keep a story tight and when to end it, something too many of today's authors have no grasp on whatsoever.
Re: a brief remembrance of my childhood with Andre Norton
Date: 2005-03-18 07:58 pm (UTC)come to think of it, those too practically raised me. which might just explain my tenuous grasp of reality in my youth. :)