The encounter started with Andre Norton’s – From the Sea to the Stars which I had picked up through Baen books brilliant Webscriptions. The first story called Sea Siege, is told from the perspective of a young man / boy … teenager, well he’s not my age and even that is a refreshment. The story develops slowly for a short story building charactersation as if it was a real novel – that I liked. In the last half of the story events quickly move with nuclear war, monsters from the deep and a girl called Liz. I must also mention that there is a fantastic characterzation of a voodoo doctor. Now the problem is that after everything has been build up, you know and feel for the characters, the story is ready for more trouble and then it suddenly stops dead in it’s tracks. Great potential wasted. Andre Norton owes me an ending.

After this disappointing encounter I lost interest in the second half of the book. A science fiction book friend of mine told me later that Andre Norton have written lots of interesting science fiction so perhaps I was just unlucky in my first attempt.

Next up is the Baen book collection The World Turned Upside Down.