Review: One of Norton's best ever, ever, ever!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
Like many authors in the 40s, 50s, and even the 60s, Norton was not to sure that mankind would survive the invention and use of the nuclear bomb.  This novel is set in the future after people escape from Earth after war and the raise of a very oppressive worldwide government.  They escaped to the stars and this colony was one of the few that survived.  They not only survived, but found and became partners with an indigenous race.  However, another indigenous race threatens to destroy all life on the planet, if they rediscover their ancient technology, technology which almost destroyed this planed before,  Helping this race, men from the stars.I first fell in love with books by Andre Norton as a child. This book, like many at the time was one half of an ACE Double Book. You got Two Books: one at each end, for the price of one, usually $0.40 or $0.50 When she wrote this book, all Science Fiction writers were men, hence Andre Norton, not Mary Alice North. Like many of the classic SCI FI novels, this was free and it was easy to make the decision to order and re-read this great book. If you have never read this book, get it now, sit back, read and enjoy. (I do not do spoilers, but there were enough other reviews here that gave away the plot so ...)