Series
Witch World Stories
Andre Norton, C. J. Cherryh, Elizabeth H. Boyer, Judith Tarr, Marta Randall & Meredith Ann Pierce · 5 novellas · 1 collection · 4 anthologies · 1980–1990
Witch World Stories gathers the multi-author anthology volumes set in Andre Norton's Witch World, the science-fantasy setting she introduced in 1963 and later opened to other writers. Each volume collects original short stories and novellas by different hands, including C. J. Cherryh, Judith Tarr and Marta Randall here, exploring different corners, eras and characters of the setting rather than continuing one throughline. The anthologies ran through the 1980s as part of Norton's broader effort to build Witch World into a shared universe.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Witch World Stories at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s8
- 1990s2
Shape
5 novellas · 1 collection · 4 anthologies
6 authors
reads like:fantasywitchessecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 56% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Stillborn Heritagedarkest
- Four from the Witch Worldbrightest
- Rampioncalmest
- Falcon Lawmost intense