The Dolphins of Pern

Informationen zum Autor Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series. Klappentext Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. Visit the author's website at www.annemccaffrey.net Zusammenfassung Continues the story of Pern. A sudden squall blows up and capsizes Alemi and Readis's boat. The shipfish save them by holding the ship above water, guiding them and speaking to them. The shipfish are dolphins and Readis longs to work with them and be Pern's first dolphineer.

Product details

• Authors: Anne McCaffrey
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.1995
• EAN: 9780552142700
• ISBN: 978-0-552-14270-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 178 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Die Drachenreiter von Pern; Dragonriders of Pern; The Dragon Books; The Dragon Books; Dragonriders of Pern; Die Drachenreiter von Pern
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science fiction: Space opera, Science fiction: space exploration, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Science fiction: time travel, Mythical creatures: Dragons