Queen of the Sun. Norton A.

“The Great Master of Fantasy” Andre Norton became famous in our country thanks to the “Queen of the Sun” cycle about the adventures of free space merchants, and everything began with the novel “Sargassy in Cosmos”, which was brilliantly translated by the Strugatsky brothers under the pseudonym “S. Zhezhkov, S. Vitin "back in 1969. A graduate of the space school Dane Torson receives an appointment to the ship “Queen of the Sun”, which wins at the auction “Cat in a bag” - the right to develop the planet Limbo - and adventures begin. In Cosmos Norton there is a place for pirates, treasures, and the secrets of ancient civilizations...

The adventures of the “queen of the Sun” continue in the novels of the “plague ship”, “planet Wood” and “interstellar mail” (presented in this book In a new translation), as well as in the novels "Emergency Planet", "abandoned ship" and "Reason for bidding" (written almost half a century after the release of the classic books of the cycle).