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Unknown worlds - unknown dangers

The Stars Are Ours: Dard Nordis is a hunted man. His brother was murdered for covert activities as a scientist in a world in which scientists and engineers are blamed for the global war that smashed civilization. The global dictatorship of Pax has ordered their execution. Now he is on the run, trying to find the secret stronghold of his brother's friends and colleagues - a hidden place where the few remaining scientists are desperately building a spaceship to escape to the stars.

Star Born: Centuries after the desperate flight from Earth, Pax has been overthrown and humanity again reaches for the stars. Rof Kurbi's spaceship reaches the planet Astra, but he and the crew do not know that the planet already has a colony established centuries ago by the fugitive humans from Earth. Nor do they know that the apparently friendly natives of the planet are actually the malevolent remnants of a corrupt civilization that all but destroyed itself millennia ago - and that they are plotting to eliminate all humans from Astra, both the recent arrivals and the star born colonists.

©1954 The World Publishing Company (The Stars Are Ours); copyright 1957 by The World Publishing Company (Star Born) (P)2021 Tantor Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Solar System
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This is the third book of Andre Norton's I've read, and his writing has finally ground me down. Masks of the Outcasts, Search for the Star Stones and Starflight are all interesting concepts with reasonably compelling characters and plots, yet every time I listen I keep thinking that they should be short stories. There isn't enough plot, to sustain a 12 hour book.
In Starflight I finally gave up when, upon getting reasonably engaged with the premise of a downtrodden people setting off for a new world and finding freedom in a place that hosts its own hurdles, and finding the characters charming enough to want to see how they deal with their hard-won freedom, Mr. Norton decided now was a great time to skip 3 generations and introduce us to a whole new bunch of characters and an entirely different conflict. I just couldn't face yet another slow build up to what I knew would be less a powerful climax to the story and more an unsatisfying conclusion to a series of events.

Fine, but should be short stories

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