WRITER

Andre Norton

1912 - 2005

Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andre Norton has received more than 491,717 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Andre Norton is the 2,880th most popular writer (down from 2,809th in 2019), the 3,646th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,684th in 2019) and the 318th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

490k
Page Views (PV)
53.30
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
22
Languages Editions (L)
3.92
Effective Languages (L*)
2.62
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Time Traders

Time travel in fiction, Time travel, Fiction

DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USAs greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies -- and weapons -- far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source...and take it down.

1958

Star Born (Pax /Astra Book 2)

Classic Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction

When the oppressive global dictatorship of Pax took over Earth they put a stop to space exploration. Still, a few rebels escaped in the sleeper ships to found free new colonies -- or perish in the attempt. Those few colonists that reached inhabitable worlds were cut off for centuries, and in that isolation and freedom they developed the mysterious mental powers that ''civilization'' had all but destroyed.

1957

Key Out of Time

Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Time travel

Time Agents Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe, aided by a Polynesian girl and her team of telephatic dolphins, probe the mystery of the sea-planet men have named Hawaika. Its cities and civilizations have vanished, but our agents are snatched back through a Time Gate and marooned in the midst of the struggle for power that mist have destroyed the planet.

1963

Storm over Warlock

Science fiction, Life on other planets, Fiction

Earth is colonizing worlds, but there are intelligent bugs who want to glean everything off of those worlds and have no hesitation in killing men to do it. A young man and his pet wolverines are the only two survivors of such a raid and must keep scrambling to keep from joining their dead - up until the time when he decides to carry the fight to the bugs. Like most all of Andre Norton's books, a very good read.

1960

Plague Ship

Fiction, Space ships, Solar Queen (Imaginary space vehicle)

1956

Ralestone Luck

1938

Page views of Andre Nortons by language

Over the past year Andre Norton has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 57,527 views, followed by Russian (27,215), and Polish (5,066). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (996.49%), Southern Azerbaijani (98.25%), and Egyptian Arabic (59.86%)