Star Soldiers

By: Andre Norton

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Only as interstellar mercenaries can humans go to the stars; the aliens who already dominate the galaxy allow no other recourse. But when Swordsman Third Class Kana Karr and his comrades-in-arms are betrayed and abandoned on a hostile world by their alien masters, the warriors from Earth begin a desperate but glorious march across a planet whose every sword is against them. Their actions may doom humanity's future...or lead the way to an empire of their own!

Four thousand years later, galactic civilization is collapsing, and the underfunded crew of an exploration starship is forced to set down on an uncharted planet: a mysterious, abandoned world that is achingly beautiful - and hauntingly familiar. Ranger Sergeant Kartr, telepath and stellar Patrolman, searches with his crewmates for the source of a beacon which may mean escape for them all. What he finds is far stranger: the first clue to what may become the greatest revelation in galactic history!

The defining events of future history as only Andre Norton could tell them!

©2001 Andre Norton; Star Guard copyright 1955 by Harcourt Brace & Co.; Star Rangers copyright 1953 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (P)2021 Tantor

Dated, but fun

These books are dated, yet many a cliched sci-fi premise is based on them. Good fun for a light read.

Star Guard, and Star Rangers/Last Planet

These 2 stories are among my favorite Andre Norton books certainly my favorite of her “CC” stories. This pairing is very good as it represents a beginning, and and ending of this universe. In Star Guard you have a young soldier who lives on an Earth forced by Central Control to be mercenaries. While fighting his way across a hostile planet he learns things are not what they seem. In Star Rangers, (original title Last Planet) we are at the other end of the CC story arc. The Galactic civilization is collapsing and a remnant part of the Galactic Patrol sent out into the galaxies fringe to get rid of it makes a interesting discovery.

A great Norton story

Great characters and interesting, gripping plot. I’ve read and listen to almost all Norton books. This is in the top 10%.

A classic space opera in the old school style.

A classic space opera by Andre Norton from a bygone era. The reader gave an excellent performance.

promising

nice concepts and plot. But the time jump leaves out to much, between the first and second books. and the second one drones on