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The X Factor
The X Factor
Author: Andre Norton
Diskan Fentress Mutant son of a space explorer did not fit into his father's world or any world the boy ever known. His outsize strength in a poorly coordinated body which often resulted in his breaking what he wanted to mend or cherish dismayed him and destroyed ant self confidence he might have had not until he stole a spaceship and crashe...  more »
ISBN: 310581
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Alison-H avatar reviewed The X Factor on + 54 more book reviews
I've never read Norton's work before and I found this book to be well written with interesting characters and plotting. But the ending was very abrupt leaving the story feeling incomplete with no sign of a sequel.
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Great Norton, this is the first novel I read by her when I was just a kid...
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The novel's hero is Diskan Fentress, mutant son of a high-ranking military official who, feeling out of place in a life that requires a certain bearing and poise (he's pitifully overgrown and clumsy), steals a spaceship and runs off to an uncharted world called Mimir to begin a new life. Norton makes the theft of the spaceship ludicrously easy (it amounts to a variation on stealing dad's keys), but clearly Diskan is not the brightest bulb on the tree, either. Crash landing in a frozen, alien wasteland, with barely provisions enough to survive, Diskan soon encounters strange indigenous beings called the brothers-in-fur. Their ancestors, we learn, inhabited a once-magnificent city named Xcothal, the ruins of which poor Diskan soon finds himself led to. There he meets another human, a girl named Julha Than, and a wounded alien called a Zacathan. He learns that the ruins of Xcothal contain a treasure being sought by a band of outlaws called the Jacks.


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