Recently , we talked aboutanimal uplift chronicle , where non - human creatures gain man - like intelligence . Well , there ’s a subclass of that writing style : the smart cat book . Every Thomas Kyd goes through a cat phase , and there ’s no shortage of scifi books that pander to this obsession . There are true cat familiar , the Kzin of Larry Niven ’s universe , and clans of warrior cat like those in theWarriorsseries . But for the best scifi African tea wondrousness , combined with mettlesome , realistic mise en scene , you ca n’t beat Star Ka’at by Andre Norton and Dorothy Madlee . I think I wore a fix in that book when I was a kidskin , dreaming of powerful , psychic Arabian tea come in to Earth to rescue me . And this mid-70s book holds up over time .
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It ’s the narrative of two orphan kids , Jim and Elly Mae , whose lives on Earth are verge on hopeless . Jim lives with crappy , scurrilous foster parent and Elly Mae collects junk on the street to deal so she can corrupt food for her die grannie . Sound depressing ? It is . Their life start to take care up , though , when they meet Mer and Tiro , two Ka’ats who have make out to Earth to rescue their fellow alien from a “ calamity ” that we assume is atomic annihilation of the planet . ostensibly many quat on Earth are bear on to the uber - healthy alien Ka’ats , but only some have retained their genial acuity and others have gone native . The Ka’ats psychically bond with Jim and Elly Mae , helping them deal with Elly Mae ’s nan ’s death and finally adopting the two children as “ kin . ”
If you know an inventive tyke who know cat and wants to leave the major planet , try Star Ka’at out on them . The sequel , Star Ka’at World is terrific too .
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