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Zusatztext “A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans! a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers’ profession.” — Locus Informationen zum Autor Anne McCaffrey , one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011. Klappentext Crystal had destroyed Killashandra's memory! and only crystal could restore it-if she dared! When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild! she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain! near-eternal life . . . and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately! someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself-to another person! and to all her unpleasant memories. "A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans! a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."-Locus Zusammenfassung Crystal had destroyed Killashandra ’s memory! and only crystal could restore it—if she dared! When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild! she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain! near-eternal life . . . and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn’t counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately! someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra’s mind. But she would have to learn to open herself—to another person! and to all her unpleasant memories. “A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans! a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers’ profession.”— Locus ...
