- Fiction, Exploration, Planets, Telepathy
With their goals of peace and prosperity close at hand, the Rowan's descendants face the looming destruction of all they have suffered to achieve.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Bantam Press, Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781567406511
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“By noon of the day after the destruction of the Number Three Hiver sphere, the newly promoted Admiral Ashiant was already giving orders to elements of his Fleet to implement the second phase of their five-year mission.”
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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