Gale rated the novel four stars out of five "for youngsters", saying that they "are sure to enjoy complete enthrallment". In this novel and its sequels, Norton explores aspects of Native American culture, specifically the Navajo, through metaphors in Storm's life and in the culture he adopts on his adoptive planet. According to Kirkus, he finds "life and hope" instead. Storm still harbors wrath at his former enemies, the Xik, and has sworn revenge on a man named Quade for his father's murder. The team emigrates from Earth to the distant planet Arzor where it is hired to herd livestock. The Beast Master tells of Hosteen Storm, a Navajo and former soldier who has empathic and telepathic connections with a group of genetically altered animals. The first two latterday sequels were named the year's best novel by New Zealand science fiction fans ( Sir Julius Vogel Award). According to McConchie, they were "written solely by Lyn from a brief collaborated outline". Norton wrote one sequel published in 1962 and three by Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie of New Zealand were published forty years later, one of them after Norton's death in 2005. In German-language translation it was published as Der Letzte der Navajos ( de: Arthur Moewig Verlag, 1963) -literally, The Last of the Navajo. It inaugurated the Beast Master series, or Hosteen Storm series after the main character. The Beast Master is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, published by Harcourt in 1959.
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