SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

So I downloaded Key out of time some time ago and just started reading it.

I also did a search on wikipedia(The Great Grand-Father of all knowledge) and found that its the fourth book in the series call The Time Traders

Does anyone has read it??

Am I missing something by reading the fourth book first?


Any idea anyone?

Caron wrote: "I've read The Crossroads of Time, The Defiant Agents and The Time Traders of this series and didn't even realize there was another one. I went and downloaded it, so thanks! The Time Traders introdu..."

Thanks for the info, I have read first few chapters they are a bit confusing, perhaps intend for the already aware reader.
But it does have a good vivid discription.
Perhaps it would be fun. :)

Well, download The Time Traders from that link I posted. It starts right off introducing you to Ross.

Caron wrote: "Well, download The Time Traders from that link I posted. It starts right off introducing you to Ross."

I think I will finish Key out of Time first, since I have already started reading it.
Then I will decide.

Derrick wrote: "And here is a link to a LEGIT version of her first 2 books:

http://www.baenebooks.com/s-81-andre-...

Manybooks.net is a non-legit site. The book..."

Thanks for the link, I downloaded Key out of Time from feedbooks
I guess the copyright of Key might have expired long ago.

Hmmm, I didn't know it wasn't legit. Sorry. I do know that many of Norton's copyrights have expired and those books are in the public domain and free to anybody.

Caron wrote: "Hmmm, I didn't know it wasn't legit. Sorry. I do know that many of Norton's copyrights have expired and those books are in the public domain and free to anybody."

I think that Key is available on feedbooks cuz its. copyright expired maybe others‘ copyright is valid.

Yes, copyright gets tricky. Most of Norton's copyrights for books prior to 1964 were not renewed and are in the public domain. Did you hear that her estate has sold the movie rights to the Witch World series? If those are done right, they'd make great movies! :)

Ok so I did a little research, so there is a page on Feedbooks on there public domain section which has 15 Andre Norton's books including the 4 Time traders books.

www.feedbooks.com/author/159

also they are available on Gutenberg

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19145


So I guess they should be in Public Domain

Caron wrote: "Yes, copyright gets tricky. Most of Norton's copyrights for books prior to 1964 were not renewed and are in the public domain. Did you hear that her estate has sold the movie rights to the Witch Wo..."

OK so I am lost here, don't know much about Andre Norton, I have only downloaded Key out of Time.

Norton is one of the sci fi greats and my personal favorite. :) Since the settling of her estate back in 2009 or so, they've started re-releasing many of her stories as two novels in one book. Even though she wrote some series, you don't necessarily have to read them in order...she was pretty good about making sure you didn't have to read the first story to understand a later story. If you like Key, you might want to try Witch World.

Caron wrote: "Norton is one of the sci fi greats and my personal favorite. :) Since the settling of her estate back in 2009 or so, they've started re-releasing many of her stories as two novels in one book. Even..."

I have just read 2 chapters, it does seems interesting. I will give Witch World a chance after reading Key out of Time