Andre Norton

On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbage pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization — the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. Her skin is iridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet, a bat-like zorsal. When Simsa’s mentor dies, she must scrape a poor existence from an unyielding planet. But, then Thom, a star ranger, arrives from the heavens, and he leads Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation. The truth may lie below in the ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as a infant, but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet and dead — and what Simsa discovers there will change her life, and perhaps galactic civilization itself, forever! Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner and Forerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybrid Simsa collected for the first time in one volume.

Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imagination for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domestic spellcasters, darkly domineering, sexy enchantresses, ancient sorceresses, modern Wiccans, empowered or persecuted, possessors of supernatural abilities that can be used for good or evil — or perhaps only perceived as such. Welcome to the world of witchery in many guises: wicked, wild, and wonderful!

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels, complete with original illustrations. The first novel, "Legion of Lazarus," is a grand sci-fi adventure by none other than Edmond Hamilton, author of "The Star Kings." There was a new way of executing criminals. No longer did they strap a condemned man into a chair and shoot a lethal electric charge through his body. No, this was the future. And being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution. But it was also the only way a man could qualify for..." The Legion." The second novel, "Star Hunter," written by Andre Norton, is an exciting depiction of an interplanetary safari. This was going to be a hunting party, but what were they really sent to find? Somewhere in that other world jungle...a man was planted.