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The Girl Who Heard Dragons
| Author: | Anne McCaffrey |
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Corgi Books, 1996 Tor, 1994 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books have been national bestsellers.
The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers--a big, satisfying compilation of her fiction. Best of all, it opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The Girl Who Heard Dragons."
In addition, the book contains twenty-four beautiful black and white drawings by award-winning artist Michael Whelan. Romance, humor, colorful description, and affecting characters are Anne McCaffrey's hallmarks and the fifteen stories herein have these virtues in abundance. No wonder the Chicago Sun-Times described her as a "master of the well-told tale."
"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is the story of Aramina, a teenage girl of Pern who hears dragons--a skill which does not seem likely to help solve her family's problems. They are "holdless," and must constantly roam the land, trying to hide from bandits. Aramina's mother fears losing her daughter completely to the life of a dragonrider, but McCaffrey has another fate in mind for her young heroine.
Table of Contents:
- So, You're Anne McCaffrey - essay
- The Girl Who Heard Dragons - (1986) - novelette
- Velvet Fields - (1973) - shortstory
- Euterpe on a Fling - shortstory
- Duty Calls - (1988) - novelette
- A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty - (1990) - novelette
- The Mandalay Cure - shortstory
- A Flock of Geese - (1985) - shortstory
- The Greatest Love - (1977) - novella
- A Quiet One - (1991) - novelette
- If Madam Likes You ... - (1989) - shortstory
- Zulei, Grace, Nimshi, and the Damnyankees - (1992) - novelette
- Cinderella Switch - (1981) - shortstory
- Habit Is an Old Horse - (1986) - shortstory
- Lady-in-Waiting - shortstory
- The Bones Do Lie - shortstory
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