The Beast Master is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton , published by Harcourt in 1959. It inaugurated the Beast Master series, or Hosteen Storm series after the main character. In German-language translation it was published as Der Letzte der Navajos ( de: Arthur Moewig Verlag , 1963) —literally, The Last of the Navajo .
14-549: (Redirected from Beast Master ) Beastmaster may refer to: The Beast Master , a 1959 novel by Andre Norton The Beastmaster (film) , a 1982 film loosely based on the novel Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus Beastmaster (TV series) , a 1999 television series based on the 1982 film "Beastmaster", one of several Final Fantasy character classes Beast Master (manga) ,
28-584: A man named Quade for his father's murder. According to Kirkus , he finds "life and hope" instead. In this novel and its sequels, Norton explores aspects of Native American culture, specifically the Navajo, through metaphors in Storm's life and in the culture he adopts on his adoptive planet. Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale rated the novel four stars out of five "for youngsters", saying that they "are sure to enjoy complete enthrallment". Kirkus Reviews concluded that
42-603: A manga created by the artist Kyousuke Motomi "Beastmaster", an X-Wild song from the album So What Ultimate Beastmaster , a Netflix reality TV show Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Beastmaster . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beastmaster&oldid=963491136 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
56-482: A problem with stakes on a world scale. Kirkus concluded that that story "is secondary to the fascinating description, the imaginative ideas, and the general quality of prose and dialogue. For the experienced science-fiction reader". Kirkus welcomed the continuation of the series by Norton and Lyn McConchie in Beast Master's Ark (Tor, 2002), including the promise of a fourth installment: "[T]hat's good, since this
70-445: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Beast Master Norton wrote one sequel published in 1962 and three by Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie of New Zealand were published forty years later, one of them after Norton's death in 2005. According to McConchie, they were "written solely by Lyn from a brief collaborated outline". The first two latterday sequels were named
84-417: Is one of the better SF series going, with Norton using stripped prose to put her stereotypes through their foredestined rounds. ... Neat, swift, and strongly detailed. Old fans will dance and howl for more". McConchie claims to be sole author of the prose. The Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) released an omnibus edition of the 2002 and 2004 collaborations, contemporary to Tor's first edition of
98-792: Is still in print, with six more since published in that series. In addition to three Vogel Award-winning collaborations, McConchie wrote three sequels in the Beast Master series that Andre Norton inaugurated in 1959 and four novels in the Witch World universe that Norton created in 1963. McConchie's work has appeared in nine countries to date, and in four languages. Her list of published books stands at 43; she has also published novellas; and her short story list recently passed 300. McConchie also writes consumer/recycling articles for her local newspaper, and speciality articles for magazines in New Zealand and
112-417: The "fantasy is made convincing by the author's boldness of imagination and by his ability to yield totally to the atmosphere which he creates". This was one of several reviews by Kirkus from 1958 to 1963 that reveal that the reviewer presumed "Andre Norton" to be a man. Some others were The Time Traders and its three sequels. In Norton's sequel Lord of Thunder (1962), Hosteen Storm discovers and resolves
126-543: The 2011 Vogels, McConchie won both the Best Novel category with The Questing Road and the Best Young Adult Novel category with Summer of Dreaming . In 2013 she won Best Novel again for her collaborated book 'Queen of Iron Years (with Sharman Horwood) Lyn's SF novel, Vestiges of Flames, was a Sir Julius Vogel award nominee in 2016. Most recently her Ancient Egypt alternate history fantasy, Bastet's Daughters, received
140-633: The International Cat Writers Assn. Certificate of Excellence in March 2018. She also won an award for editing in the Vogels' former incarnation as the New Zealand science fiction fan awards in 1990. Her short stories have won The Australian SF Foundation award (for The Third Storey) in 1992, and Muse Medallions (Best Short Story) from the international Cat Writers Association in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2002. In 2011 her short story, Opener of Doors won
154-648: The UK. She has written under the pseudonyms of Jan Bishop and Elizabeth Underwood. She writes from her home, Farside Farm, on the north island of New Zealand. McConchie has won the Best Novel category in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand science fiction and fantasy six times, including three for novels set in Andre Norton 's worlds (by Norton and McConchie): in 2003, 2005, and 2006 for Beastmaster's Ark , Beastmaster's Circus , and The Duke's Ballad . At
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#1732905406134168-480: The latter. One year later, a few months after Norton's death, Tor published an omnibus edition of the first two books, which was also carried by SFBC. Lyn McConchie Lyn McConchie (born 1946) is a New Zealand writer of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy , and horror fiction ), picture books for children, a nonfiction humour series , a number of standalone books and many short stories, articles, poems, opinion pieces, and reviews. McConchie
182-475: The year's best novel by New Zealand science fiction fans ( Sir Julius Vogel Award ). The Beast Master tells of Hosteen Storm, a Navajo and former soldier who has empathic and telepathic connections with a group of genetically altered animals. The team emigrates from Earth to the distant planet Arzor where it is hired to herd livestock. Storm still harbors wrath at his former enemies, the Xik, and has sworn revenge on
196-749: Was born in Auckland , New Zealand, and attended Freyberg High School in Roslyn. She was crippled in a motorcycle accident in 1977. McConchie has worked in the Justice Department and the Office of Agriculture and Fisheries in Wellington before she began writing professionally in 1990. Since that time she has sold on average one book every eight months. Her first book to appear was Farming Daze , containing humorous true-life stories about her farm and animals. That first book
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