Andre Norton 3 hr 55 min read

Will the children born on this new world be Terrans, or something else? Dalgard points his outrigger into a hidden cove, the first break in a cliff wall guarding an unknown continent from the sea.

Andre Norton's 1957 novel, a sequel to 'The Stars Are Ours!', is a rich colonization space opera. Atmospheric, humane, superbly told. Read it for classic Norton, the descendants of Earth colonists and their telepathic allies, facing the return of a dark power to their adopted world.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).