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The girl who heard dragons

1st ed.
  • 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

A collection of 15 stories. In one, the Earth plunges back in time to different historical periods, in another, a girl communicates by telepathy with dragons. By the author of All the Weyrs of Pern.

Publish Date
Publisher
TOR
Language
English
Pages
352

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Cover of: The girl who heard dragons
The girl who heard dragons
1996, Corgi
in English
Cover of: The girl who heard dragons
The girl who heard dragons
1994, TOR
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The girl who heard dragons
The girl who heard dragons
1994, TOR
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The girl who heard dragons
The girl who heard dragons
1994, TOR
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

The girl who heard dragons
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 Damnyankees
Cinderella switch
Habit is an old horse
Lady-in-waiting
The bones do lie.

Edition Notes

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.A255 A6 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
352 p. :
Number of pages
352

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24831529M
Internet Archive
girlwhohearddrag00mcca
ISBN 10
0312931735
ISBN 13
9780312931735
LCCN
94000118
OCLC/WorldCat
29702509

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Internet Archive item record

Work Description

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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