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Continuing the amazing adventures of the unicorn girl, in the bestselling Acorna series.

About the Author

Anne McCaffrey is considered one of the world's leading science fiction writers. She has won the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as six Science Fiction Book Club awards for her novels. Brought up in the United States, she is now living in Ireland with her Maine Coon cats and a silver Weimaraner. She is best known for her unique Dragonriders of Pern series.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of twenty-three science fiction and fantasy novels, including the 1989 Nebula Award-winning The Healer's War and the Powers series, co-written with Anne McCaffrey, as well as the popular Godmother series and the Gothic fantasy mystery, The Lady in the Loch. She lives in a Victorian seaport town in western Washington with her cats, beads and computer stuff.

Reviews

This finale to the six-book "Acorna" saga will please fans of the series as it neatly wraps up all of the different challenges that our unicorn-horned heroine has faced-and introduces some new ones. Picking up where Acorna's Rebels left her, Acorna saves her long-lost (and oddly acting) mate, fends off threats from the insect-like Khleevi, recovers some special gemstones useful in terraforming, and minds the Ancestors' timestream machines. There are a couple of big battles, and action ranges all over space. Anna Fields is a fine narrator, but her talents and smooth voice are better suited to stories with smaller casts of characters; also, it is important to note that listeners unfamiliar with the series will be hopelessly confused, making this only for libraries where "Acorna" is popular.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Hartford Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

More episodic than its predecessors, McCaffrey and Scarborough's finale to the charming Acorna saga will please the two authors' many fans and lovers of horses and cats generally. Last seen in Acorna's Rebels (2003), the unicorn girl has finally located her missing life-mate, Aari, though his exile in time has resulted in a disturbing personality change. Besides helping Aari to recover, Acorna must retrieve a hoard of jewels-chrysoberyls used in terraforming, stolen by a troupe of dancing girls with anti-gravity belts-from three races of sulfur-based beings, the Liquids, Solids and Mutables. She must also contend with the return of the Khleevi, disgusting insectoid aliens with evil designs on Acorna's home planet. And of course there is Grimalkin, the felinoid shape-changer, whose antics delay the well-deserved happy ending after all the bopping back and forth through time, across space and in flight from the Khleevi. While this light SF/fantasy romp is a hopeless proposition for newcomers to Acorna's travels, it serves as a fitting coda to the series. Both Acorna and Aari and their creators can ride off into the starlight with clear consciences. (Mar. 2) FYI: McCaffrey is the author, with Todd McCaffrey, of Dragon's Kin (Forecasts, Oct. 13, 2003) and other titles in her popular Pern series. Scarborough is the author of the Nebula Award-winning novel The Healer's War. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.