Andre Norton 3 hr 42 min read

A team of Apache colonists, their ancestral memories artificially awakened, is planted on a distant world to hold it for Earth, only to find a rival power has reached the planet first.

Andre Norton's 1962 novel is a rousing colonization space opera in her Time Traders sequence. Vivid, humane, gripping. Read it for classic Norton, Native American settlers using deep racial memory to survive an alien frontier, in a tense contest of Cold War rivalries carried to the stars.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 42 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).