Moon of Three Rings (Moon Singer/Free Traders, Bk. 1)

by Andre Norton

Book Overview

No. H-33. Cover art by Jack Gaughan. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441541046
• ISBN13: 9780441541041
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Price of Pride

Moon of Three Rings is the first novel in the Moonsinger series. Krip Vorland is assistant cargomaster on the Free Trader ship Lydis. Maelen of the Kontra is a Moon Singer of the Thassa. Both have come to Yrjar on Yiktor for the great trade fair.In this novel, Maelen has been approached by Osokun, son of Oskold, and an off-worlder, Gauk Slafid, of the Combine. They want Maelen to lure a member of the Lydis crew into a trap to gain off-world knowledge and weapons. Maelen refuses, yet is troubled by the plot. When Krip and a fellow crew member attend her beast show, she has her partner, Malec, approach the off-worlders, offer a tour of the show, and then bring them to her so that she might question them and better understand the conspiracy against the Free Traders.After she has introduced all the animals to the Free Traders, she asks them about the possibility of a touring beast show among the stars, but then they are interrupted by a oddjob boy, who she has tasked with watching an animal dealer, Othelm of Ylt, suspected of abusing his creatures. When Maelen begs leave to go, Krip asks permission to accompany her and they go to the dealer's tent, where they find a badly abused barsk. As Maelen goes to the animal, Othelm tries to attack her with a poisoned snik-claw knife, but Krip paralyzes his hand with a stunner. Maelen provides a token payment for the beast and removes it from Othelm's custody.Krip reports the incident to his captain. After checking the persona tape on Krip's belt, the captain absolves him of any wrong doing, but still limits him to the ship and the ship's fair booth as a precaution. Later the duty priest and fair guards come to take Krip for judgment. Since he is busy with important customers, the captain stays behind but retains Krip's stunner and sends along another crew member. The priest and guards escort Krip to the fringe of the fairgrounds, where they are attacked by another party and Krip is taken captive.After recovering full consciousness, Krip finds himself in a pit within a Yiktor fort. Osokun has found another way to gain a captive for his plot to extort weapons and knowledge. While he is waiting for a reply to his demands, Osokun also has Krip tortured in an attempt to break the off-world conditioning. When Krip awakens again, he knows that the only way that he is going to survive is to escape his captors.After Krip's capture, Maelen senses his condition and leaves the fair to rescue him, taking along the barsk and several other animals with useful capabilities and skills. She doesn't know where Krip is located, but follows the pull of her wand eastward.Like some other novels by the author, this story is just barely science fiction, for it postulates powers that are much like the magic of Witch World. Some of these powers are beyond the present day speculations of psionics; switching identities between bodies, for example, is an old standby of fantasy tales, but not in the parapsychological r

This book got me hooked on Andre Norton

I was in elementary school the first time I read this book. I loved it. Krip and Maelen are very vivid characters. It's easy to understand what's going on, without being familiar with the universe. This particular book I think leans more towards fantasy than most of the books Norton has written in this universe. (If you've read Catseye or any of the books about Dane Thorson, it's the same universe.) I know there's at least one other book, Flight on Yiktor, which features the same characters, but I like this one a lot better. Of course, I'm probably biased. It's still my favortite Andre Norton book, though I've read plenty of others. If you're into sci-fi or fantasy and can manage to find a copy, it's definitely worth reading.

Great book!

This book is great. It is one of the first sci-fi books I read as a kid. I became a fan of sci-fi in large part because of this book. I hope to get a copy for myself soon.

Moon of Three Rings

I found this book to be good reading same as the other reviews except no one mentioned a sequel Flight in Yiktor.

lOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH IM LOOKING FOR A NEW COPY

First read this book years ago. Loved it then and love it now. As a dyed in the wool Sci-Fi fan, This is one of my top five all time favorites. The empathy of the youg woman and her animal charges is wonderfully poetic.