Country Store Mystery: 1965 Letter from Andre Norton

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Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed – scans of vintage Locus and audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that feed looks like by making some of our earlier posts public. Check out this post featuring a letter from Andre Norton.

In addition to all the benefits of lower tiers, including a digital subscription and other perks, patrons pledging $15+ monthly have access to the Archive content (AKA the Secret History Feed). This includes monthly back issue posts, author interview audio clips, and complete access to the archive of past posts full of unique SF artifacts and ephemera like this letter.

Andre Norton and the Case of the Country Store

Andre Norton was the primary pen name of Alice Mary Norton, winner of the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and in 1934 she adopted it as her legal name. She was the first woman inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, the first woman to be named SFWA Grand Master, and the first woman to win the Gandalf Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing. In 2005 the Andre Norton Award was created to honor exceptional work in science fiction and fantasy for young adult literature.

Among the Locus archives there are several photos of and letters from Norton to Charles Brown. In the letter presented here, she discusses an idea for story set in her Free Traders universe, exchanging books with the Browns, and a mysterious country store in a town near her home.

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