Andre Norton 3 hr 44 min read

Time agents on a watery colony world reach back into its lost past, a realm of ancient mariners, sea-witches, and the sinister Baldies, and find themselves stranded in a perilous age.

Andre Norton's 1963 novel is a rousing time-travel and colonization adventure in her beloved Time Traders series. Vivid, fast, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a thrilling plunge into the deep past of an alien ocean world, from a grand master of adventure SF.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).