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Title: Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0-345-31600-2 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 November, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Enthralled...no pun intended.
Comment: I was very impressed with the Crystal Singer trilogy - although I loved Pern etc, I always found them to be a little simplistic in terms of characterisation, motivation etc, a little lacking in maturity. I think Killashandra was a superb novel, but I think that all three of this series are best read as a trilogy...e.g. it's all very well to lay the warnings of memory loss in The Crystal Singer, and to feel the menace of such occupational hazards over the first two books, quite another to see (and experience, I guess) such crises in the third book. A unique trilogy, that made each element an essential element of the whole. Killashandra And Lars Dahl were extremely skillfully visualised characters (with a deftness in their creation I hadn't given Anne MaCaffrey credit for, shamefully) with very human strengths and weaknesses - never stereotyped in the sorrowful way of many sci/fi characters. Not to say they were always likeable! The singing trade was admirably conjured too....I'd appreciate response!
Rating: 5
Summary: Science fiction at its best
Comment: The first Killashandra Crystal Singer stories were in a series of sci-fi books that serialized short stories. The Crystal Singer story was expanded and the first book, Crystal Singer, was put out in novel form. I recommend you read Crystal Singer first as it sets the stage for this, a continuation of the story.
Killashandra finishes her apprenticeship in the first novel as a Crystal Singer, a miner of crystal on the planet Ballybran. Crystal Singers are a special breed; they must possess perfect pitch and be able to adapt to the unique rigors of Ballybran. They mine the valuable crystal with its energy properties by singing in tune with a sonic cutter. The geometric crystal forms are sold through their Guild for high prices throughout the Galaxy to be used in power drives and many other types of equipment.
Singing is hazardous work, though it provides some unusual advantages. After one of Ballybran's gigantic Mach Storms ruins Killashandra's mine claim of valuable black crystal, she must take an assignment that, again, has much more under the surface that meets the eye. She must tear herself away from the Guildmaster, her love interest, but finds that even though she is destined to lose him, another awaits her on a far planet.
Fine reading and part of an excellent trilogy.
Rating: 5
Summary: My First Anne McCaffrey Read, but Not My Last
Comment: This is the first novel I have read by Anne McCaffrey, but I was so impressed that it will not be my last. Many of the other reviewers suggested that the Crystal Singer be read first, and although I may have gone into the reading of this book with a better understanding, I don't feel that I was at much of a loss as this book does well as a stand-alone novel.
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Title: Dragon's Kin by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey ISBN: 0345461983 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Restoree by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345351878 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345336038 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 044100007X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Gift of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345456351 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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