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The Defiant Agents

  • 1962 first published
  • 198 pages
  • 43 editions
  • 🎧 6 h 42 min free audiobook

Andre Norton's The Defiant Agents (1962) is a time-travel fiction and Victorian science fiction novel. It features Travis Fox. It deals with sci fi, space and time, time travel and space colonies.

14 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 43 editions. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 1,825 times in the last 30 days.

It runs to roughly 198 pages β€” 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 6 h 42 min LibriVox audiobook.

About The Defiant Agents

Synopsis - Ancestral memory – Travis Fox, once the unwilling captive of the runaway spaceship Galactic Derelict, has volunteered – eagerly this time – for the mission to colonize Topaz. But when he and his fellow Apaches find themselves reverting to the ways of their ancient warrior race just as the expedition from Russia has been transformed into a Mongol Horde encamped across the mountains, it becomes clear that more than their own lives is at stake...
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Free audiobook

The Defiant Agents β€” LibriVox recording, 6 h 42 min in 18 sections.

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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Characters

  • Travis Fox

Subjects

  • Sci fi
  • Science fiction
  • Space and time
  • Time travel
  • Space colonies
  • Apache Indians
  • English language
  • Composition and exercises
  • American Science fiction
  • Indians of North America
  • Voyages dans le temps
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Apache, Indiens
  • Colonies spatiales
  • Adventure

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Defiant Agents?

The Defiant Agents was written by Andre Norton and first published in 1962.

What genre is The Defiant Agents?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel, Victorian Science Fiction and Classic Fantasy.

How long is The Defiant Agents?

The median edition has 198 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

Is The Defiant Agents free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

Is there a free audiobook of The Defiant Agents?

Yes β€” LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 6 h 42 min.

What books are similar to The Defiant Agents?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Big Time, When the Sleeper Awakes and The Invisible Man.

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