Monday, May 30, 2011  Pulp Fantasy Library: No Night Without
Stars        1. thanks for posting this! This was the first
Andre Norton book I read, and has long been a favorite. However,
I had forgotten what the name was (and for some reason had it
confused with Star Born).      I'm going to find a copy of this
and reread it!    2. I remember the book fondly from my teenage
years (I have a copy with that cover somewhere - probably in
storage since the Great Flood of '05); I'll have to re-read it
next time I come across it.      BTW James, talking about post-
apocalyptic fiction, have you read Stephen Vincent Benét's 1937
short story "By the Waters of Babylon"?      I came across it
myself last week when I was looking for a short story to serve
as a make-up assignment for one of my students. I normally use
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," but I needed a
"back-up" story and just happened to come across Benét's story
online. I found it quite interesting, both as a model for later
post-apocalyptic ficti