Andre Norton 3 hr 49 min read

The Throg task force strikes the Terran survey camp on Warlock without warning, wiping it out, and leaves a handful of survivors marooned and hunted on a wild alien world.

Andre Norton's 1960 novel is a gripping colonization and survival space opera. Atmospheric, humane, superbly told. Read it for classic Norton, stranded Terrans, insectoid Throg invaders, and the strange native powers of Warlock, in a tense tale of endurance against overwhelming odds.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 49 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).