The Girl Who Heard Dragons
by Anne McCaffrey
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Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books for many years have been national bestsellers. She is one of the most popular writers ever in fantasy and science fiction.
The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers - a big, satisfying compilation of her fiction never before collected in book form. Best of all, it opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The Girl Who Heard Dragons." In addition, the book contains 24 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.
The fourteen other stories - all just as good - are:
Velvet Fields
Euterpe on a Fling
Duty Calls
A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty
The Mandalay Cure
A Flock of Geese
The Greatest Love
A Quiet One
If Madam Likes You...
Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the Damnyankee
Cinderella Switch
Habit Is an Old Horse
Lady-in-Waiting
The Bones Do Lie
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Fiction, Dragons, Pern, American Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Life on other planets, Space colonies, American Fantastic fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Pern (imaginary place), fiction, Young women, fiction, Science fiction, American, Pern (Imaginary place) -- Fiction, Life on other planets -- Fiction, Space colonies -- Fiction, Dragons -- FictionShowing 5 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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The Girl Who Heard Dragons
October 1999, Tandem Library
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0785765263 9780785765264
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"Aramina was aroused by the urgency of her parents' voices: Dowell's a fierce whisper of persuasion and her mother's a fearful rejoinder."
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