I've only read Adre Norton in passing and just now was mildly surprised to learned he was a she. <br /><br />Surprise, surprise, she wrote a novel called Judgement on Janus (1963) and a sequel called Victory on Janus (1966)<br />Pemise is a man is changed by an alien artifact and decides to defend a planet.<br />http://www.andre-norton.org/coverart_gallery/judgement_on_janus.htm<br /><br />the Star Frontiers Convention module Trouble on Janus which while officially set in the Star Frontiers universe actually reads like it came from the Traveller univers (until the sathar show up)<br /><br />but poking around I noticed other sci fi properties with the name Janus:<br /><br />The Janus Conjunction an original novel by Trevor Baxendale based on a long running British TV sci fi series<br /><br />Janus is a two faced Roman god and is the name of one of Saturn's inner moons.<br /><br />There is now a nano particle named Janus for the unique features it has .<br /><br />The convention module has a sathar plot to use the minds of primitives in its robots or something like that hence the two faced nature and Janus literary reference I suppose. But I also wonder if the author was also rifting from Norton or Baxendale?<br /><br /><br />
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