- Pern (Imaginary place), Science Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed, Brilliance Audio, Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- Italian, English, tur, German
- ISBN
- 9780345917478
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“LESSA WOKE, cold.”
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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