The Girl Who Heard Dragons - Softcover

McCaffrey, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812510992 ISBN 13: 9780812510997

Publisher: Tor Fantasy, 1995

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Grand Masters Praise Anne McCaffrey

"Congratulations to Anne McCaffrey! She has always amazed me with the wonders of Pern and the dramas of humans and dragons in her deft mix of fine fantasy and hard science fiction. The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a fresh revelation of the wealth and range of her talents."--Jack Williamson

"From the time that Ms. McCaffrey's Restoree fell into my hands, I have been an avid reader and collector of all she has published. In the skies of science fiction and fantasy she is rightfully a brilliant star."--Andre Norton

About the Author:

Anne McCaffrey was born in, l926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and published her first novel in 1967. She is best known for the series of novels beginning with The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern, many of them international bestsellers. She lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0812510992
• ISBN 13: 9780812510997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416