- Unicorns, Fiction, Acorna (Fictitious character), Science Fiction
Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Acorna's beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 382
- Publisher
- Severn House, Corgi, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606295604
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“The mountains were still not right.”
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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