“Grand Dame of Science Fiction” Andre Norton’s two Dream novels collected together for the first time. Powerful dreamers become trapped in the perilous, magical worlds of their own creation and must learn to shape their own dreams – or disappear forever. “Grand Dame of Science Fiction” Andre Norton’s dream sagas; two novels collected together for the first time in one Perilous Dreams Tamisen the Dreamer, trained to walk through her dreams to other places, other worlds. But when she is asked by the crippled star traveler Lord Starrex to take him into a dream world where he can regain his legs and his life something goes terribly wrong. Someone, or some thing, stalks this world, and it does not mean well to Starrex or to Tamisen. Knave of Dreams For Ramsay Kimble, sleep means nightmares, and he avoids it whenever possible. But now a car accident has catapaulted him into the very world he most the horror world of his own dreams. But here he is not his ordinary self, but a nobleman from a fair country, possessed of power to fight back, defeat his nightmare visions, change his dream world – and ultimately rescue his life from the terror that stalks him. About Andre “The Grand Dame of Science Fiction…” – Time “One of the all-time masters.” –Peter Straub “Andre Norton is a superb storyteller whose skill draws the reader completely into a fantastic other world…” – Chicago Tribune About Perilous Dreams and Knave of Dreams : "[A]ll of Norton's renowned story-telling magic is present in abundance . . ." – Future Retrospective "An interesting handling of the parallel worlds theme." – Kliatt
Author
Alice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities. She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher. First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male-dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice. She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms. Andre Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) association in 1983. Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, in 1964 for the novel Witch World and in 1967 for the novelette "Wizard's World." She was nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, winning the award in 1998. Norton won a number of other genre awards, and regularly had works appear in the Locus annual "best of year" polls. On February 20, 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which had earlier honored her with its Grand Master Award in 1983, announced the creation of the Andre Norton Award, to be given each year for an outstanding work of fantasy or science fiction for the young adult literature market, beginning in 2006. Often called the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy by biographers such as J. M. Cornwell and organizations such as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Publishers Weekly, and Time, Andre Norton wrote novels for over 70 years. She had a profound influence on the entire genre, having over 300 published titles read by at least four generations of science fiction and fantasy readers and writers. Notable authors who cite her influence include Greg Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, C. J. Cherryh, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Joan D. Vinge, David Weber, K. D. Wentworth, and Catherine Asaro.
