Acorna - Anne McCaffrey

Collaboration Disaster (1248 words)
by campb3ll - written on 26/09/01, updated on 26/09/01 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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Acorna is an orphaned alien girl who has fur and a horn like a mythical unicorn albeit a humanoid one. She's rescued by 3 space prospector foster fathers and grows up to save the exploited victims of the child labour trade on the planet Kedzet. It's all rather unlikely but that's the nature of science fiction and fantasy. The Plot ======== Gill, Calum and Rafik float about in space and mine likely asteroids for valuable minerals. They detect a distress signal and discover an enchanting alien infant in an escape pod, whom they name Acorna. They have to return to their HQ to unload their minerals. Unfortunately, the company they were contracted to switched ...

Pegasus in Space - Anne McCaffrey

Grande Finale to the Trilogy (137 words)
by silent2 - written on 18/07/00, updated on 18/07/00 (Useful, 23 readings)
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This is the concluding book of the trilogy that began with 'To Ride Pegasus' and carried on through 'Pegasus in Flight'. The central character is Peter Reidinger who made his appearance in Pegasus in Flight as the paraplegic able to perform amazing feats of kinesis using generators to boost his abilities. The ...