The Forerunner Factor, Andre Norton
The Forerunner Factor, Andre Norton
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The Forerunner Factor

Author: Andre Norton

Narrator: Traci Odom

Unabridged: 15 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/06/2021


Synopsis

Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner and Forerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybrid Simsa, collected for the first time in one volume.

Forerunner: On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbage pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization—the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. When Simsa's mentor dies, she must scrape a poor existence from an unyielding planet. But then Thom, a star ranger, arrives from the heavens, and he leads Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation.

Forerunner: The Second Venture: Simsa has escaped the criminal guilds of Kuxortal only to find herself held prisoner by starfaring humans intent on discovering the secrets of the Forerunners contained within her. With the aid of her pet zorsal, Simsa escapes her captors and crash lands on a sandy world full of danger and mystery—another world touched by ancient Forerunner civilization. Now Simsa must escape death at alien hands while battling the spirit within her that seeks to possess her very being and transform her into something utterly inhuman.

About Andre Norton

For well over a half century, 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 stand-alone 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alvaro on May 29, 2022

Would have loved it when I was a kid. I'm probably too old and jaded to properly enjoy this coming of age story. It deals with a lost space-faring people, and the appearance of one of them thousands of years after their extinction. What follows is an account of the struggles of this person to come to......more

Goodreads review by Diana on September 28, 2019

Author's intent good story, but conversion of scanned book to text needs edit I'm all for getting these classic old authors into ebooks and accessible by text to voice, but the process needs some editing to make sure the character recognition software didn't gum up the works. An example of this is th......more

Goodreads review by Leigh on June 25, 2019

One of Andre Norton's recurring themes was humanity moving out into space to discover that we were not the first, that the galaxy is strewn with the enigmatic ruins of many ancient peoples, some of whom used technology with a very different basis than that of humanity. These mysterious artifacts soo......more

Goodreads review by Gregory Paul Houtz on December 31, 2016

Great! Great adventure. Wonderful imagination, great characters, very vivid writing. Good book for sci Fi or fantasy lovers. Love Andre Norton!......more

Goodreads review by Patrick J. King on January 30, 2020

Slow read Moves very slowly with repeat scenes and situations. First Simsa book superior. Simsa is a great character and deserves better.......more