- Dinosaurs, Fiction, Animals, fossil, Science fiction
A crew is sent to Ireta to catalog fauna and flora, and search for new energy sources, but the results of their investigations are unexpected. Suddenly members of the crew begin to change and nobody knows what causes the change.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 202
- Publisher
- Severn House, Orbit, Del Ray
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841490304
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“KAI heard Varian's light step echoing in the empty passenger section of the shuttlecraft just as he switched off the communications unit and tripped the tape into storage.”
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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