The Beast Master
Written by Andre Norton
Narrated by Richard J. Brewer
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About this audiobook
In 1959 Andre Norton published The Beast Master, a fast-paced science fiction adventure that introduced to readers a new kind of hero, Hosteen Storm. Storm, a Navajo from the American southwest, served in the Planetary Confederacy forces as a Beast Master teamed with an African eagle, a meercat, and a dune cat.
Telepathically linked to his team animals, Storm served valiantly in the war that eventually defeated the alien Xiks, though victory could not prevent the aliens from destroying Earth. With his homeworld gone, Storm emigrated to the colonized frontier planet Arzor, where he would have to help fight a holdout Xik force that has brought the war to his adopted home.
In Lord of Thunder, Storm's beast master skills and animal partners are needed to unravel the mystery behind a huge gathering of the indigenous Norbies. Only Storm and his half-brother Logan Quade can penetrate the Norbies' clan secrets and discover what is behind the threat of an uprising that could destroy the tenuous peace between the colonists and the aliens who share their planet.
These two novels are science fiction adventure at its best. Here is exciting space opera full of colorful, absorbing SF action on an alien world, as only Andre Norton can write it.
Andre Norton
Andre Norton was one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. With series such as Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, and Janus, as well as many standalone novels, her tales of adventure have drawn countless readers to science fiction. Her fantasy novels, including the bestselling Witch World series, her Magic series, and many other unrelated novels, have been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. An Ohio native, Norton lived for many years in Winter Park, Florida, and died in March 2005 at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Earth, called Terra in this novel, had been totally destroyed by a hostile Alien race. A decommissioned Terran commando, Storm, who is a full-blooded Navajo and beastmaster, still has a mission. His grandfather had laid an oath on him to avenge a death.
To fulfill this oath, Storm travels with his meercat pair, a desert wildcat/puma hybrid, and a giant black eagle, to the planet where the man lives that he must kill.
On this planet he finds a terrain that is similar to the land of his people and, oddly enough, a kinship with the strange natives that people it. He also finds the hostile aliens that had destroyed his world and an unfathomable mystery involving the man he is supposed to kill.
Having Native American blood myself, I found much to identify with in this story.
Written in an almost poetic, thoughtful way, in the slower style of the classic sci-fi/fantasy genre, Storm's discoveries and adventures were delightful, dangerous and action-packed.
I recommend this book. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a great read. I do not know how P. C . this book is
, but when I read it as a child, I gained so much respect for Native culture. Reading it years later, I am still moved by a great adventure story' - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A true syfy adventure story just the way I remember from my early days of reading some 60 years ago.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of my favourites from teenage years. I still reread it every few years, it reads like an old friend. I loved the Indian (Native American) take on the space age and the seething conflict of emotion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love this book. It's sort of like Avatar with alien natives vs human settlers. But it also is more serious about a person's reaction to how you are raised as a child and to psychology of war. The main part though is native American culture and the genetically engineered animals that Hosteen (the main character) is bonded too. The sequel is even more interesting as the characters discover an underground high tech alien installation long abandoned.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hosteen Storm is a Navaho tribesman, a Beast Master, and a Commando, released from his service after the war with the alien Xiks has been won. He is unable to return home, though, as his birth world has been reduced to a radioactive rock. However, a new home is not what he seeks on Arzor, but revenge. This was a very good tale, with action, and enough twists to keep me guessing what would happen next. The author never bogs down the reader with too much description or definitions, but allows us to figure things out on our own. I plan to reread this in the future, I liked it that much.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a nice book, in traditional Norton style where a low technical solution to an invasion comes to the fore
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was such a favorite as a kid. I didn't remember any details of the plot, but I did remember the Hosteen Storm and his animals.I recently listened to it in audiobook format, in a burst of nostalgia, and discovered that it is essentially a Western, thinly disguised as science fiction. There are other planets, a war between aliens and Terrans, various high tech weapons, etc. It is truly science fiction. But in large measure the story is about riding the range, Indians and cowboys (with cowboys who appreciate Native Americans and cowboys who do not), prejudices and misunderstandings. No wonder I loved it as a kid.