Firehand

ANDRE NORTON (1912-2005) was a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and received a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. Her science fiction (the Witch World, Forerunner, and Beastmaster series) and fantasy (stand-alones Dragon Mage and Quag Keep, and the Witch World Chronicles series) have been popular for decades. She also collaborated with other authors, most notably Mercedes Lackey on the Halfblood Chronicles and Sherwood Smith on the Time Traders and Solar Queen series.

Pauline Griffin (1947 - 2020) was born with an Irish love of storytelling. By combining that with her passion for research, she broke onto the science fiction scene in 1986 with the first of the Star Commandos series and later co-wrote three novels with Andre Norton. All told, she published thirty science fiction and fantasy novels, twelve short stories and a host of nonfiction pieces, winning two Muse Medallion awards along the way. She lived in Brooklyn, New York with her cats and her tropical fish, but her heart was always in the stars.