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Acorna's children face their own adventures.

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

'Good spacefaring fun'
*Publishers Weekly*

'Combining colourful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace...this is entertaining fare indeed'
*Booklist (on the Acorna series)*

Demonstrates the storytelling expertise of co-authors McCaffrey and Scarborough. Old and new characters, exotic alien races, and unique methods of problem-solving make this a good choice
*Library Journal*

Khorii is definitely a chip off the old horn...Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are experts at being able to draw their readers into quite a complex and already well-established world, without making too many narrative demands with regard to the previous books. Their style is, as always, eminently readable
*SFX*

As the daughter of the famous Linyari adventurer and ambassador Acorna, Khorii feels the pressure of living up to her illustrious mother. When she discovers a derelict spacecraft and decides to explore it, she finds the crew dead-and picks up a debilitating and, perhaps, fatal disease that may destroy her family if she doesn't find a cure. Veteran coauthors McCaffrey (the "Dragonriders of Pern" series) and Scarborough (Healer's War) combine their storytelling strengths in a new trilogy that deals with another generation of Linyari and traces the adventures of a new and engaging heroine. For most collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/05.] Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

'Good spacefaring fun' * Publishers Weekly *
'Combining colourful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace...this is entertaining fare indeed' * Booklist (on the Acorna series) *
Demonstrates the storytelling expertise of co-authors McCaffrey and Scarborough. Old and new characters, exotic alien races, and unique methods of problem-solving make this a good choice * Library Journal *
Khorii is definitely a chip off the old horn...Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are experts at being able to draw their readers into quite a complex and already well-established world, without making too many narrative demands with regard to the previous books. Their style is, as always, eminently readable * SFX *