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CaoPaux
03-18-2005, 12:58 AM
*sigh* She'll be missed.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html
Betty W01
03-18-2005, 12:59 AM
She will be missed, indeed.
ChunkyC
03-18-2005, 01:03 AM
She lived a long, long life, and left us with so many great stories.

Thanks, Andre. Rest, you've earned it.
Sheryl Nantus
03-18-2005, 01:38 AM
*sobs*

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
DaveKuzminski
03-18-2005, 02:27 AM
Her books were among the first, if not the first, SF books that I read. :(

After reading about her in the CNN article, I am very impressed with Tor. That publisher has real class for rushing a copy to print so they could place it in her hands just days before her death.
Galoot
03-18-2005, 02:57 AM
Crap.
MacAllister
03-18-2005, 04:37 AM
:( Her books were some of the first spec-fic I ever read, too. Loved her stuff.
Moondancer
03-18-2005, 04:42 AM
Same here. I think one of her books was what got me hooked.
victoriastrauss
03-18-2005, 05:24 AM
Same here. As a teenager I read everything by her I could get my hands on. I have wonderful memories of whole afternoons lost in an Andre Norton book.

- Victoria
Anaparenna
03-18-2005, 07:37 AM
There's a nice blog here by Sherwood Smith (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sartorias/74572.html), in case anyone's interested. It mentions Ann Crispin and an address to send cards, etc.
Eowen
03-18-2005, 09:54 PM
I never read a book by her I didn't enjoy. Heck, her name on an interesting cover is enough to get me to pick up the book and read the first chapter right there in the bookstore or library.


Eowen
allion
03-19-2005, 04:28 AM
:cry:

I still remember the first time I read a Witch World book.

Karen
whitehound
03-19-2005, 04:49 AM
Realistically, out of 170+ books a lot were pot-boilers - but there are at least 20 absolute gems in Andre's work and that's a good tally for any writer, even without 150 other books on top! She was the second SF author I remember reading, after Jim Blish, and I was mad on her works throughout my teens and early 20s. I never really cared for the Witch World books (except Year of the Unicorn) but I loved the early pure SF - Star Rangers is still one of my favourite books. I re-read it recently on-line and it was just as good as I remembered. And Fur Magic, which is marvellously creepy, probably had a formative influence on my becoming a pagan.

She was also a thoroughly nice person and a game old girl who was still doing high-kicks even in a wheelchair! Although we will all miss her, I should think she's very glad to get shot of her failing body and be able to be active again.