The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Dragonriders of Pern (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765333643 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readersa big, satisfying compilation of her fiction. Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books have been national bestsellers. 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.. 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 dragonsa skill which does not seem likely to help solve her family's problems
Five Stars Great book!. This is an ANTHOLOGY For fans of Pern, or anyone captivated by dragons or the lovely cover-art, just be warned that most of this book has nothing to do with The Girl Who Heard Dragons. It is a collection of short stories, only one of them about Pern. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I must say that I felt rather mislead. showcases the versatility of the late great Anne McCaffrey A Customer The Girl Who Heard DragonsAnne McCaffreyTor, June 5 2012, $14.99ISBN: 9780765333643This is a reprint of a wonderful 1994 short story collection; only the title story occurs in Pern. "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" introduces readers to Aramina and her family on the run to keep her from being abused due to tal
McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.. Anne McCaffrey is best known for The Ship Who Sang and its sequels and for the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern, many of them international bestsellers. In 2005, McCaffrey was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America; she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007
“Anne McCaffrey, with her dragons, says something very valuable about humans and their interplay with the world around them.” Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of The Mists of Avalon“Few are better at mixing elements of high fantasy and hard science fiction in a narrative that disarms skepticism by its open embrace of the joys of wish fulfillment.” The New York Times Book Review