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Dragon Harper

01 Jan 08

Maelstrom

Acorna's Children: Second Wave

Changelings

Dragon's Fire

pbk 05 Nov 07

WebPage: http://www.annemccaffrey.org

About the Author

Bibliography

First British Edition Bantam (2008)

Dragon Harper
With Todd McCaffrey
All Kindan ever wanted to do was become a Harper, singing, playing, and teaching the ballads of Pern, and he is thrilled when he becomes an Apprentice at the Harper Hall. But then he is offered the chance to attend a hatching and succeeds in Impressing the magnificent bronze fire-lizard, Valla.
There he meets Koriana, daughter of Lord Holder Bemin of Fort Hold. She also Impresses, in her case a gold fire-lizard, and there is an instant attraction between her and Kindan. Unfortunately an apprentice Harper is not considered a suitable consort for a Fort Holder’s daughter and they are quickly separated, leaving Kindan to wonder about his future - would it be possible for him to have more than just the life of a Harper?
But suddenly everything starts to go wrong for Kindan and he is accused of starting a fire which destroys ancient and extremely precious Records. Kindan is banished to Fort Hold in shame and dishonour However, his own worries pale into insignificance when a terrible plague starts to spread across Pern, killing nearly everyone infected. As it reaches Fort Hold, Kindan and the rest of Pern’s inhabitants know their very survival is in doubt.
Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of readers have followed book by hook the evolution of one of science fiction's most popular series.
Todd McCaffrey, Anne's son, is the approved heir to Pern and has now joined his mother in creating new adventures about the dragons and dragonriders of Pern.
`Anne McCaffrey, one of the Queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants’ Walter Ellis, The Times
`A proper Pern novel ... bodes well for future volumes.' SFX on Dragonsblood

First British Edition Bantam (2007)

Maelstrom
With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Book Two of The Twins of Petaybee
With three acclaimed novels - Powers That Be, Power Lines and Power Play - bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough launched a thought-provoking science-fiction saga that told the story of a sentient planet, Petaybee. In Changelings they returned to Petaybee and introduced the Shongili twins, Ronan and Murel, who have the ability to transform into seals and converse telepathically with the creatures of Petaybee.
In Maelstrom Ronan and Murel are on-board Marmie’s luxury spaceship Piaf with their schoolfriend Ke-ola, on a mission to rescue Ke-ola’s family, who are marooned on Halau, a planet racked by meteor storms. The rescuers arrive to discover another ship already there and its commander, Colonel Catty, makes it clear that he considers the planet his territory. Ignoring the colonel’s protests, Marmie, Ke-ola and the twins land on Halau, where they find some survivors and their totem animals, the sharks and the giant turtles, or Honus. Marmie and the twins offer them all a new home on Petayhee. However, Marmie has made an implacable enemy in Colonel Catty and he swiftly plans his revenge.
Back on Petaybee the twins, in their seal form, are escorting the Honus to their new home in the middle of the ocean when, during the long journey, Murel falls asleep and becomes separated from the others. She wakes to find herself surrounded by a pod of hungry Orcas, who, thinking she is a normal seal, try to eat her. She calls Ronan telepathically and he races hack, but they are both caught up in an underwater whirlpool and dragged down to the ocean floor …
Acclaim for Changelings
`Those familiar with McCaffrey and Scarborough’s first SF trilogy about life on the sentient planet Petaybee will best appreciate this solid start of a new series, which picks up where Power Play (1995) left off… Fast-paced adventure.’ Publishers Weekly
`The story is exciting and generously laced with humor, but besides those qualities, the characters - planet, humans, and animals, including the playful river and sea otters who befriend the twins - and their interactions are so well realized as to utterly charm readers. Furthermore, to the Celtic and Inuit lore that informed the first trilogy, McCaffrey and Scarborough now add elements of the mythology and lore of Earth’s South Sea Islanders.’ Book list

British Pbk Original - Corgi (2007)

Acorna's Children: Second Wave
With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are two of science fiction’s favourite authors. Together they have created the world of Acorna, the unicorn girl. Now Acorna‘s children start to have their own adventures.
Second Wave
Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own through a universe filled with new adversaries and adventure.
In First Warning, she became a hero in her own right as she fought to save the universe from a mysterious plague that not even the healing powers of the Linyaari could stop. Now she and her genius android 'brother' must find the malevolent cause of the deadly disease before those behind it cripple the star system.
'Khorii is definitely a chip off the old horn. Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are experts at being able to draw their readers into quite a complex and already well-established world' SFX

First British Edition Bantam (2006)

Paperback - Corgi (2007)

Changelings
With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Book One of The Twins of Petaybee
With three acclaimed novels - Powers That Be, Power Lines and Power Play - bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough launched a thought-provoking science fiction saga that told the story of a sentient planet, Petaybee. The planet and its inhabitants, led by Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili, fought off the mercenary designs of a powerful interstellar corporation determined to exploit the icy world’s natural resources.
In Changelings, the first of a new series of novels, Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough return to Petaybee. Yana and Sean are now the parents of twins, Ronan Born for Water Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Shongili. Born on Petaybee, their destiny is deeply intertwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human. Like their father, each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet’s creatures - such as the friendly otter whose life they save one day from a pack of ravenous wolves.
But the twins’ bravery has unforeseen results when a visiting scientist witnesses their startling metamorphosis and becomes obsessed with their capture. To protect their children, Sean and Yana send them to stay with a powerful family friend on an orbiting space station. But no one realizes how curious Ronan and Murel are to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent - and that their search for knowledge will place them squarely in the path of peril.
Meanwhile Petaybee is changing - and much faster than an ordinary planet’s natural evolution. It appears that portions of the sea are heating up and a landmass is suddenly rising from the depths. To investigate the startling occurrence, Sean heads out to the open water in his seal form. But the newly unstable region holds untold mysteries - and the potential for disaster.

Paperback - Corgi (2007)

First British Edition Bantam (2006)

Dragon's Fire
With Todd McCaffrey
A New Adventure of Pern
When Masterharper Zist takes over as Harper for Natalon’s coal-mining camp, he takes with him his apprentice, the orphaned, mute Pellar, and Pellar’s fire-lizard Chitter. Pellar has become a gifted tracker and Zist gives him his own mission - to find out if the recent thefts of coal are the work of the Shunned, criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.
Halla is one of the children of the Shunned. Though innocent of their parents’ crimes, these children have inherited their cruel punishment. With no shelter, when the lethal Thread falls again they will have no protection against it. Life is even tougher for Halla: all her family are dead and she must fend for herself. Yet Halla is kind and gentle, devoted to helping those more helpless than she - unlike Tenim, a fellow child of the Shunned. Tenim is in league with Tarik, a crooked miner from Camp Natalon, who helps him steal coal in exchange for a cut of the profit. But Tenim soon realizes there is a lot more to be made from firestone, the volatile mineral that enables the dragons of Pern to burn Thread out of the sky. Tenim doesn’t care what he has to do, or whom he has to kill, in order to corner the market.
Cristov is Tarik’s son. Dishonoured by his father’s greed and treachery, he decides he must make amends somehow … even if it means risking his life by mining the volatile firestone, which blows up on contact with the slightest drop of moisture.
When the last remaining firestone mine explodes in flames, a desperate race begins to find a new deposit of the deadly but essential mineral, for without it there can be no defence against Thread. But Tenim has a murderous plan to turn the tragedy to his own advantage, and only Pellar, Halla and Cristov can stop him - and ensure that there will be a future for all in the world of the Dragonriders
Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of readers have followed book by hook the evolution of one of science fiction's most popular series.
Todd McCaffrey, Anne's son, is the approved heir to Pern and has now joined his mother in creating new adventures about the dragons and dragonriders of Pern.

About The Author
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st in the year of the fire tiger and has been writing about Pernese dragons for thirty years. This does not necessarily make her an expert on other dragons but she has diligently exposed herself to the 'lesser breeds without the law.' She lives in County Wicklow, Ireland and has replaced travelling the World with surfing the Internet and the web.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Dragon Harper (Bantam, 2008) Jan 08

Maelstrom (Bantam, 2007)

Acorna's Children: Second Wave (Corgi Pbk, 2007)

Changelings (Bantam, 2006) Corgi Pbk Jan 07

Dragon's Fire (Bantam, 2006) Corgi Pbk Nov 07

Acorna's Children: First Warning (Corgi Pbk, 2006)

Acorna's Triumph (Corgi Pbk, 2005)

Dragon's Kin (Bantam, 2003) Corgi Pbk Nov 04

Acorna's Search (Corgi Pbk, 2003)

The Skies of Pern (Bantam, 2001) Corgi Pbk Jan 04

Dinosaur Planet Omnibus (Orbit Pbk, 2001)

A Diversity of Dragons Short Stories (Simon & Schuster, 1997) Simon & Schuster Oct 97