Storm Over Warlock Paperback 1612871917 9781612871912 Andre Norton

from mathrocks

Lantee, the junior member of an advance Survey team from Earth preparing a planet (Warlock) for human settlement, is the lone survivor of an attack by the vicious alien Throgs. He faces difficult physical challenges to survive in the wild with two intelligent wolverines, and joins up with a senio...

from EdBramblett

This was written the year I was born. I read it in junior high school and that was about the right time to do it. The story is fast - 2 or 3 weeks for the characters and one good sitting for the reader. It's a first contact story wrapped inside a space war vignet. Like a lot of Ms. Norton's work,...

from johnnyapollo

I recently re-read this book (originally read when I was in high school). It was quite good for both the nostalgia and in some instances some great reading. I really like the handling of both the "Forbidden Planet" style Federation-style "Patrol" and the use of mutated Wolverines. I also liked th...

from cannellfan

This was the book that got me hooked on reading science fiction. I first saw it in my local library in 1976, and it was one of a handful of "adult" speculative fiction titles I checked out at the age of 13. I don't remember any of the rest of them, now, but the sense of wonder and adventure in St...

from bzedan

WOLVERINES! All snarly and snuffly and into burying half their kill for later. They are not the focus of the books, just sidekicks to Norton's standard intrepid kid adventurer.Also some wyverns, I guess? And wishes might come true and they fight beetle people and I pretty much dug this.