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reviewed Catseye by Andre Norton (Dipple #1)

Andre Norton: Catseye (1967, Puffin Books) 3 stars

A fine midcentury YA SF novel, but missing something.

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I thought I was going to spend Our Decameron Year (and counting) catching up on a bunch of classics I haven’t read (Middlemarch is the big one), but instead I found myself… reading a bunch of midcentury popular fiction, your Jack Vances and Patricia Highsmits and Donald Westlakes. Andre Norton—a long-time employee of the Cleveland Public Library until she began working for Martin Greenberg’s Gnome Press and then became a full-time writer—is, I suppose, both a writer of midcentury popular fiction and a classic (of sorts) that I haven’t read. Despite Norton being one of the formative writers of the nascent young adult SF market (the Science Fiction Writers of America’s prize for young adult novel of the year is the Andrew Norton Award), I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything by her. I picked up Catseye at my local used bookstore for my daughter, since it’s about telepathically …