"Here's Tae Us..."

We've lost another one. Andre Norton is dead.

I read Star Rangers when I was seven or eight. Memory fades, but I think it was the first SF I'd ever read. Over the next several years I devoured everything of hers I could find: Star Man's Son, Witch World, Quest Crosstime, Star Guard, Judgment on Janus... I've haven't read anything of hers for many years, but she had a tremendous impact on my developing worldview.

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Minstrelsy

My Inner Minstrel has been on a Johnny Mathis kick the last couple of days - "When Sunny Gets Blue", "The Twelfth of Never", "Chances Are"... I don't know why; I don't have any of his albums, and haven't listened to anything of his in, literally, decades. I may have to buy an album to get I.M. to shut up...