Changelings - Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Acorna - Anne McCaffrey

growing attraction between Acorna and Aari. Late into the tale, Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough provide an entertaining, cleverly designed critique on how the young devour the elderly in free market society. Erudite fans will dine on Margaret Ball's linguistic interpretation that intelligently spoofs the plot's action-packed space opera with a small but serious thesis. Though lacking depth to any of the key players except in an overall generalization of the traits of the various races, ACORNA'S WORLD is a fun to read work of science fiction. ...

Acorna - Anne McCaffrey

growing attraction between Acorna and Aari. Late into the tale, Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough provide an entertaining, cleverly designed critique on how the young devour the elderly in free market society. Erudite fans will dine on Margaret Ball's linguistic interpretation that intelligently spoofs the plot's action-packed space opera with a small but serious thesis. Though lacking depth to any of the key players except in an overall generalization of the traits of the various races, ACORNA'S WORLD is a fun to read work of science fiction. ...

Acorna - Anne McCaffrey

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 ...

Acorna - Anne McCaffrey

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

I have to admit that I was a little at a disadvantage reading Pegasus In Space, since it is the third in a trilogy and I haven’t read the previous two instalments. Still, every novel should be complete in itself so I am reviewing it as a standalone book, though I strongly suspect that if you’ve read the previous two books, you would enjoy this one more than I did. (Judging from the other, generally glowing reviews already here, this would seem to be the case.) It does have one of my favourite quotations of all time as its pre-prelude, which seemed a good omen, but it all went a little downhill from there. (Incidentally, that quotation was ”A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a ...

Pegasus in Space - Anne McCaffrey

I have to admit that I was a little at a disadvantage reading Pegasus In Space, since it is the third in a trilogy and I haven’t read the previous two instalments. Still, every novel should be complete in itself so I am reviewing it as a standalone book, though I strongly suspect that if you’ve read the previous two books, you would enjoy this one more than I did. (Judging from the other, generally glowing reviews already here, this would seem to be the case.) It does have one of my favourite quotations of all time as its pre-prelude, which seemed a good omen, but it all went a little downhill from there. (Incidentally, that quotation was ”A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a ...