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 novella of Pern.
“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 Girl Who Heard Dragons (1986) is a novella later collected in A Gift of
Dragons. In chronological order it is one of the stories set during the ninth
pass, about 2500 years after landing.
The fourteen other stories 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
Author Biography
Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. Born and raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she spent the last years of her life in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains. She died in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern series.
