Time Traders

November 1, 2000
Another female pioneer, Norton is one of the top sf writers of our time. Baen is launching its new Norton series with this volume, which combines the 1958 title story with 1959's Galactic Derelict. Two excellent sf adventures in a quality hardback with a cool cover should make this a good circulator.

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November 1, 2000
For this volume, Norton has updated " The "Time Traders (1958) and " Galactic Derelict" (1959) to take into account 40 years of political, social, and technological developments--such as computer games, a concluded cold war, and many more female characters in sf--without essentially changing them. In " Time Traders," Ross Murdock has the choice of rehabilitation or volunteering for a secret research project, which turns out to be searching the past for the source of illicit technological innovations. In " Galactic "Derelict, Travis Fox stumbles on a time-travel project and has to be recruited for it; then he and his comrades take an involuntary trip aboard an alien starship that crashed on Earth before recorded history. The characters' can-do attitude and Norton's magic with a story have survived two generations in fine style, and these tales remain the same sort of quintessential fun as " Star Wars," and with more intelligence. May there be a market for their further reprinting in 2040!(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2000, American Library Association.)