Only faithful McCaffrey (the Dragonriders of Pern series) fans are likely to enjoy this weak series entry. It was the third book published in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997) McCaffrey and. The intrepid Acorna, the unicorn girl, must save her people from the threat of the vicious Khlevii in this charming new book in McCaffreys Acorna series. Order of Acorna's Children Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Order of Brainship Series Order of Crystal Universe Series Order of Crystal Singer Trilogy Series Order of Dinosaur Planet Series Order of Doona Series Order of Freedom Series Order of Harper Hall of Pern Series Order of New Adventures of Pern Series with Todd J. Despite brief moments of mild humor, the novel struggles under the weight of stereotypical characters, a predictable plot and an excess of backstory. Anne McCaffrey, a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, was one of the worlds most beloved and bestselling science fiction and fantasy writers. Meanwhile, Acorna's people, the Linyaari, are seeking allies in their war against the evil, insectiod Khlevii-who just happen to be headed toward Rushima. Acorna and Calum are captured by these Starfarers, then rescued by rebel Starfarers and caught up in a small-scale civil war. There they find starving colonists, victims of a nefarious band of Starfarers who used stolen meteorological technology to wreck Rushima's weather when the colonists wouldn't submit to their extortion plot. Her trip stalls early on, however, when trouble with her ship forces her and her space-pilot partner, Calum, to land on Rushima. A science fiction species co-authored by Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. This second book in the series finds Acorna determined to escape the protective bubble her friends have built around her and to set off across space in search of her people. Introduced in McCaffrey and Ball's Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997), the eponymous unicorn-horned girl of mysterious origins was found in a jettisoned spaceship's escape pod by kindly asteroid miners, and raised to young adulthood in secret in order to keep unsavory space businessmen from exploiting her superior intelligence and psychic abilities.

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