Acorna's People [Hardcover]

Anne McCaffrey (Author), Elizabeth A. Scarborough (Author)

Book Description

Series: Acorna | Publication Date: June 3, 1999

Although she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever truly feel at home. But the solitude she desires must wait. Answering a faint distress signal leads Acorna to a strange, perfumed world where plants are sentient and think. There she finds a burned-out ship with all the signs of a Khleevi attack. It's been suspected that these enemy aliens have been planning a major assault throughout the region, and now it appears those rumors are true. Facing annihilation of her entire race, Acorna must discover the Khleevi's weakness -- and strike first!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Combining colorful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace...this is entertaining fare indeed." -- -- Booklist on the Acorna series

"Combining colorful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace...this is entertaining fare indeed." -- Booklist on the Acorna series

About the Author

Anne McCaffrey is considered one of the world's leading science-fiction writers. She has won the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as six Science Fiction Book Club awards for her novels. Brought up in the United States, she is now living in Ireland with her Maine coon cats, her piebald mare, and a silver weimaraner and declines to travel anymore. She is best known for her unique Dragonriders of Pern series.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Harper Voyager; 1ST edition (June 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061050946
• ISBN-13: 978-0061050947
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,670,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best so far!, September 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Acorna's People (Hardcover)

The Acorna series has grown from a curious, uninformed buy to my favorite Anne McCaffrey-collaboration series. I was instantly charmed by the young girl who they called "Acorna" in the first book, and after I had finished that book, waited for the sequel which had been promised. I soaked that one up, finding it to be even better than the first. I realized there were a few loose ends at the end of Acorna's Quest, but thought little of it. When I first saw an advertisement for Acorna's People, therefore, I literally cheered out loud!

Acorna's People did not let me down. From the beautiful cover (the first to actually get Acorna's features somewhat right, as well as the first I'd ever seen to use vanilla as the predominant color) to the wonderful typeface, and, oh, the story!

Anne McCaffrey brings out her very best in character creation skills once again, giving us Jonas Becker, a return to the grizzled space miners of the first book, and his delightful sidekick RK (Roadkill), and a deliciously horrible villain, along with a delightful cast of Liinyari to open up an entirely new direction for Acorna - once again.

I have always loved Anne's work, and, though I had not yet read her Scarborough collaboration, the Paytabe series, I am quite pleased with Elisabeth's contributions, which are admittably harder to spot than Margret Ball's in the first two novels - A tribute to their ability to work as a team. I won't say that a change of coauthors has done the series good - that wouldn't be fair to margaret, whose wonderful portrayal of Acorna on Kizdet first got me hooked on the series - but I will say a fresh writing style has opened up brand new worlds for Acorna (literally, even), and I eagerly await the next book in the series, already promised us after the next "Pegasus" novel.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent novel with deffinite room for more., July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Acorna's People (Hardcover)

Acorna's People is my favorite in the Acorna series. It is action-packed and romantic. Acorna is basically a full-grown Linyarii by this time and is prepared to choose a life mate. The one she chooses could have a book of his own, he has been through so much. This novel takes place on the new Linyarii home world and it is fascinating how Acorna has been introduced to her people and how she is coping with them on their planet. It is evident that Acorna has a little bit of the "barbaric" humans in her and it takes her awhile to get used to some of her people's customs. This novel is fast-paced and exciting. It is one of my new favorite books. There is deffinetely room for a sequel. I thought that a lot of things were left out of this trilogy. For example, we never found out if Acorna's body will stabilize or if in a few years she will be old. Overall, this book had a strong hold on me and I found it hard to put down. I give it five stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just not worth it..., April 4, 2009

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This review is from: Acorna's People (Mass Market Paperback)

Having read the previous novels in this series, I thought Acorna would get more interesting as I read on. Now I really regret paying for this book, and unfortunately, I bought the rest of the series, too.
Acorna's adventures always seem to end well, maybe too well for me. I was interested by the Linyaari initially, but in this book, I found them rather annoying, actually. Maati was the only character I found halfway endearing or even vaguely relateable. The older Linyaari made me mad for reasons I can't say, and frankly, I probably will only bother keeping this book as a reference until I can trade it at the used bookstore.
Not worth the money!