The Beast Master
by:
Andre Norton (author)
Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm – Navaho commando and master of beasts – is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met. On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something...
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Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm – Navaho commando and master of beasts – is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met. On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over – but was it? “Miss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.” – The New York Times Book Review
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345313768 (0345313763)
Publish date: January 1984
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Beast Master / Hosteen Storm & 4 (#1)
Andre Norton's The Beast Master was a bit of an inspiration to the movie of the same name, but please, do not think these are the same thing. The idea of communicating with animals is where the similarities start and end. Or rather, the idea of a man running around communicating with animals is ...
I'm giving this three stars because it's a good, servicable diversion for the reader who likes Fantasy and Sci-Fi but dosen't want anything too heavy. The main character is well-drawn and the day-to-day operations of a cattle drive on a distant, undeveloped planet are well-described. There's an alie...
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