Tales from High Hallack
The collected short stories of Andre Norton
Volume 3 of 3
Edited by Jean Rabe
Introduction . . . Tom Doherty
Auour the Deepminded . . .
No Folded Hands . . .
Bard's Crown . . .
Frog Magic . . .
Herne’s Lady . . .
The Outling . . .
The Stonish Men . . .
Churchyard Yew . . .
Root and Branch Shall Change . . .
White Violets . . .
Needle and Dream . . .
Procession to Var . . .
Set in Stone . . .
Ravenmere . . .
Three-Inch Trouble . . .
The End is the Beginning . . .
The Familiar . . .
Red Cross, White Cross . . .
Sow's Ear - Silk Purse . . .
The Cobwebbed Princess . . .
Faire Likeness . . .
Synopsis ~
Write-up from Amazon.com ~
For the first time, the Grand Dame of science fiction—Andre Norton—has her short stories gathered for her fans’ reading pleasure. Tales reach back to the 1930s, as fresh and relevant today as they were when she wrote them . . . such was Andre’s skill. High fantasy, fables, science fiction, coming of age stories, and more fill three volumes. This impressive, must-have collection includes stories of Witch World. There are cats sprinkled here and there, as Andre treasured them so. And there is magic in the writing, unequaled prose to delight readers of all ages.
High Hallack was a place in Andre’s fiction and was also the name of her genre writer’s library she opened in Tennessee. It is a wondrous keep that she called home, and now High Hallack opens its gates and allows these amazing stories to tumble out.
Lose yourself in her enchanted words and read them again and again.
Excerpt from introduction by Jody Lyn Nye; vol. 1 ~
To find a woman writing science fiction with such skill and style was a joy. Her heroines never waited limply for someone to save them. She could have coined the term “self-rescuing princess.” Just reading her work taught me a great deal about my chosen craft.
Norton blazed a trail that I followed humbly. To this day, every time I read something of hers, I learn something new. I am as freshly impressed and surprised as was that girl in her high school library long ago.
If this is your first experience with Andre Norton, you’re in for a treat. Her short fiction appeared in magazines, many of which have long crumbled to yellowed fragments, (damn that acid-treated paper!), or in out-of-print anthologies. Jean Rabe and Sue Stewart have put together these collections, so Norton-lovers have those lost pieces all together at their fingertips.
Enjoy them! I certainly will.
Jody Lynn Nye
Reviews ~
Review by Publishers Weekly ~ June 22, 2015
The three-volume definitive compilation of SFWA Grand Master Norton's short fiction concludes with 21 stories published between 1996 and 2005, the year of her death. Though her classic Witch World is notably absent from this volume, these often vignette-like pieces offer settings as varied as ninth-century Iceland, a contemporary Renaissance Faire, and the long-running far future of Norton's Forerunners and Free Traders series. The works are united across genres by pagan sympathies, the eternal clash of Light and Dark, and the spiritual puissance of cats (who even inherit a generation starship in "The End Is the Beginning"). Several works reveal Norton experimenting outside her usual range: magic-wielding Native Americans resist benevolent robot totalitarianism in "No Folded Hands," an explicit riposte to Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands," while Nimuë and Guinevere contend with their past actions and mythic reputations in the Arthurian retellings of "Root and Branch Shall Change" and "Ravenmere." Few of these late stories will explain the prolific, pioneering author's appeal, but Norton completists will delight in their availability. Tor Books publisher Tom Doherty provides an introduction.
Dedications and Acknowledgements ~
For Jay Watts and Paul Goode
Bibliography of English Editions ~
- (2014) Volume 3 ~ Published by Open Road Media, DM & TP, 978-1-624-67273-6, $22.95, 300pg ~ cover by Kib Prestridge
~ Collectors Note for printed editions: Because the original publisher was purchased by Open Road Media between the release of volumes 2 & 3 you will find that volume 3’s dimensions are different than the first two. Also note that "three" is spelled out instead of being a number.
~ re-released in 2017 with new cover-art by Ian Koviak
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