jNsM5 (Mobile pdf) Key Out of Time Online [jNsM5.ebook] Key Out of Time Pdf Free Andre Norton ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1408380 in eBooks 2017-02-13 2017-02-13File Name: B06X6FT7DR | File size: 64.Mb Andre Norton : Key Out of Time before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Key Out of Time: 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A very fine addition to the Time Traders seriesBy FantasymanThis is a classic example of how Andre Norton crafts a story. Take some interesting characters, give them an important mission with the clock ticking to rush them along, and then let them loose on some alien world without them having the proper preparation, due to that ticking clock, and let them fend for themselves in dangerous situations. Ok, so the plot elements are essentially the same as the previous book in this series, The Defiant Agents. It's a series, that's why the plot elements are so much alike. Andre Norton fans understand that when they read one of her books they are in for a well told tale. She shares that same ability that Edgar Rice Burroughs possessed; the ability to return again and again to familiar plot elements, usually with different characters on different worlds, but essentially the same formula, and then tell a great story. Serious fantasy, sci-fi, or adventure aficionados recognize that the story is the most important thing, tell a good story and readers will willing accept the rehashing of familiar plot development schemes, time and time again. I never get tired of reading this sort of stuff. It usually takes a chapter or two to get the plot rolling, but, once Ms. Norton has laid out the ground work for her story, the story takes off and the reader just keeps turning the page. You want to know what happens next, and you want to know how the story is going to end. Very few writers have ever had the good fortune to maintain the loyalty of their readers to the extent Ms. Norton did in her lifetime, and beyond.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A redundant but appealing adventureBy KatherineOriginally posted at Fantasy Literature.Key Out of Time is the fourth book in Andre Nortonrsquo;s TIME TRADERS series. Ross Murdock is once again the hero (he was not present in the previous book). This time hersquo;s on the planet Hawaika which is being settled by the United States. Ross is accompanied by Gordon Ashe and, because this planet has a lot of ocean, Karara, a Polynesian girl who has telepathic dolphin companions.When Hawaika turns out to be different from what they expected, Ross, Ashe and Karara begin to investigate. What happened to the people who used to live there? Could the enigmatic aliens they call the ldquo;Baldiesrdquo; have anything to do with their disappearance? The trio decides to go back in time to learn about the planetrsquo;s history, but when the time gate is destroyed in a storm, they end up in the past with no way to get back. There they get split up, have separate adventures, get caught in the middle of a war between the two native races, meet some witches who are a lot like the witches in Nortonrsquo;s WITCH WORLD series, and discover that the Baldies have been tampering with the planet. Will the Time Traders find each other again? Can they help defeat the Baldies? Can they get back to their own time?Irsquo;ve always found it fascinating that Alice Mary Nortonrsquo;s young adult science fiction adventures, which she wrote in the 1960s under the name Andre Norton, were so clearly written for young men, the main target audience for young adult science fiction at the time. In fact, Irsquo;ve heard several men who loved these books when they were teenagers say they would never have picked one up if the name ldquo;Alicerdquo; had been on the cover. They report that they were quite surprised when they found out years later that Andre Norton was a woman. Perhaps thatrsquo;s because Norton mostly conforms to expectations mdash; most of her protagonists are young men and men are always in leadership positions. But, unlike many of the male authors of her age, Nortonrsquo;s female characters are strong and competent, even if they donrsquo;t break out of normative gender roles. Here she gives us Karara, a talented young woman who, despite Ross Murdockrsquo;s concerns, is perfectly capable of being a Time Trader.After recently reading a couple of the previous books in the TIME TRADERS series, Key Out of Time feels a little redundant. Though itrsquo;s a new setting, so many of the same elements are used mdash; two primitive races on a deserted planet being manipulated by the aliens, telepathic animals helping the modern humans, scary wild animals to fight, Time Traders getting separated by some sort of disaster, Time Traders getting captured by people who may or may not be enemieshellip;. However, Key Out of Time still makes an appealing adventure story for young adults and I wouldnrsquo;t hesitate to recommend it to anyone who likes old young adult science fiction adventures. Karara and her dolphins are a nice addition, and this is classic Andre Norton.I enjoyed the audio version read by Mark F. Smith. You can purchase the Kindle version for free (itrsquo;s in the public domain) and then add the narration for $2.99. Quite a bargain!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good, but not GreatBy AudeKhatruThis is another of the Time Agent novels, that includes Ashe Gordon and Ross Murdock. In this one, they are on a distant planet and use the time machine to try to learn some of the history of the planet. When things go wrong, they get involved in that history.I won't go into greater detail for fear of giving away the plot. This is a good book in an older style of Science Fiction, and it is much like the Science Fiction I cut my teeth on, 40 years ago. You must understand that this was not the most recent Science Fiction even then. It has a pretty good story, and Ashe and Ross are good characters that are familiar to those who have read books in the Time Agents series. I have only read two others, and I was not sure about one of them until I read this one.Much of Norton's catalog can be gotten for free on Kindle, so there is plenty to read if you want to come to know one of the lesser, but still significant writers from the middle years of Science Fiction. She was not really on the cutting edge, but she had a good career as a writer.This was a good read, especially at the price. There was a shading of rose in the pearl arch of sky, deepening at the horizon meeting of sea and air in a rainbow tint of cloud. The lazy swells of the ocean held the same soft color, darkened with crimson veins where spirals of weed drifted. A rose world bathed in soft sunlight, knowing only gentle winds, peace, andmdash;sloth.Ross Murdock leaned forward over the edge of the rock ledge to peer down at a beach of fine sand, pale pink sand with here and there a glitter of a crystalline ldquo;shell"mdash;or were those delicate, fluted ovals shells? Even the waves came in languidly. And the breeze which ruffled his hair, smoothed about his sun-browned, half-bare body, caressed it, did not buffet on its way inland to stir the growths which the Terran settlers called ldquo;treesrdquo; but which possessed long lacy fronds instead of true branches.Hawaikamdash;named for the old Polynesian paradisemdash;a world seemingly without flaw except the subtle one of being too perfect, too welcoming, too wooing. Its long, uneventful, unchanging days enticed forgetfulness, offered a life without effort. Except for the mystery....Because this world was not the one pictured on the tape which had brought the Terran settlement team here. A map, a directing guide, a description all in one, that was the ancient voyage tape. Ross himself had helped to loot a storehouse on an unknown planet for a cargo of such tapes. Once they had been the space-navigation guides for a race or races who had ruled the star lanes ten thousand years in his own worldrsquo;s past, a civilization which had long since sunk again into the dust of its beginning... Again, Andre Norton, one of the greats among writers of teen -age science fiction (Galactic Derelict, 1959, p.658, J- 316, for one), has employed his boundless imagination to create a story about two Time Agents who are catapulted back 10,000 years in time, on the deserted planet, Hawaika. The eerie adventures of Ross Murdock among three unique prehistoric races end in a horrifying, but fascinating other world battle. The appearance of the Baldies, hairless creatures who claim power by reading men's minds, constitutes an unusual threat to the agents. Owing to the author's exceptional mastery of detail, and astute control of plot, Key Out of Time stands as a novel which should more than satisfy young science fiction fanciers and fanatics. (Kirkus s)About the AuthorAndre Norton was the pen name of Alice Mary Norton (February 17, 1912-March 17, 2005) author of hundreds of fantasy and science fiction novels and stories.