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MURFREESBORO (AP) -- Science fiction author Andre Norton, who wrote the popular "Witch World" series of books, died Thursday at her home in Murfreesboro. She was 93. Her death was announced by friend Jean Rabe, who said Norton died of congestive heart failure. Norton was born Alice Mary Norton on February 17th, 1912 in Cleveland. She penned more than 130 novels during her career of nearly 70 years. She had the kind of career most of us would hope for. For those of you who are mathematical, notice that she wrote more than a book a year. Her output and her impact on other writers is most impressive, and I am sure she will be remembered as a prolific and influential author for a long time to come.

That's sad news. She was one of the greatest. Denny

That's sad news. She was one of the greatest. Denny

She had a great run and was a giant in a genre normally dominated by men. Or at least it was when she first started writing. Hence the pseudonym. I don't know about you, but I'm raising a glass in her honor this evening. How appropriate that the liquid will be glowing green, instead of the normal, everyday brown.

Sad news, but at 93 not unexpected. I'm sorry to say that many of my favorite authors are getting up in years. She had a great career, a very long life, and will live on forever through her writings. In a way, she will always be with us. jon

Fortunately, as long as their book are reprinted, the authors don't really die as far as our memories are concerned. It happens she has a new book coming out in a couple of months. I find that rather a nice thing, that there is yet one more book of hers to be published. Her last complete novel, "Three Hands of Scorpio," is set to be released in April. Norton's publisher, Tor Books, rushed to have one copy printed so that the author, who had been sick for almost a year, could see it. "She was able to hold it on Friday," Jewell said. "She took it and said, 'What a pretty cobalt blue for the cover.'"

Who says publishers are heartless... That really was very nice of them to do. My opinion of Tor just went up a notch. jon

I was wondering why a bell was ringing. Of course! I'd read some books of hers when I was much younger. I wish I could remember which ones i read, but I remember liking what I read. Was there a book with a character named Ortu? Strange, one wakes up with a start to realise that time's passing, people're passing, and we'll pass sometime. And writing has changed MUCH since her day. A look at the gallery makes that clear! :) And all this time I had been thinking that she was a man. Does anything ever last? Not opinions.. :) I wonder if this will inspire a philosophical Spring Haiku?

A very sad day indeed - but, as you stated dialyn, books last forever, giving authors eternal life! Long live Andre!

Very sad news. But she'll go on through her works.

"Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality." - Emily Dickinson "As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead." Andre Norton