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The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Audio Cassette)

~ (Author), Constance Towers (Narrator)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)

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Spanning a variety of eras, settings and genres (SF to mainstream), this new collection of 15 tales by the prolific McCaffrey is a satisfying exhibition of her storytelling ability. In the haunting "Velvet Fields," colonists on a new world must make a terrible decision when the planet turns out not to be as uninhabited as it appears. The title story, the only tale set on Pern, recounts some of the circumstances leading up to Renegades of Pern , focusing on the plight of the masterless and homeless in times of peril. In "Zulei, Grace, Nimshi, and the Damnyankees," an Arab woman sold into slavery protects a plantation and its horses during the Civil War and its aftermath. A random group of people from different eras caught in a time storm are dominated by an old woman who can predict the time changes in "A Flock of Geese." The contemporary "Euterpe on a Fling" explores the relationship between a singer and an audience in producing a performance. Few horsemen have been left on the Earth depicted in "The Quiet One," where large animals have had to make way for an expanding human population. McCaffrey ( Lyon's Pride ) niceley demonstrates her range and world-building skills in this eminently readable assembly. Illustrations by Mike Whelan .
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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This collection of 15 stories, including a new "short novel" of Pern, offers a varied look at one of sf's most popular storytellers. Recommended.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Audio Literature (September 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 078710258X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787102586
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars OK, fellow-Pern readers, calm down!, May 23, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Mass Market Paperback)
The book "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is NOT a Pern book. There. Maybe that helps a bit. See, this book is a collection of SHORT STORIES. Only the FIRST story takes place on Pern. The other fourteen are a collection of fasinating and extremly diverse group of stories. One of my favorites was "The Greatest Love", which is about two children being born in the womb of their aunt, not their mother. This is done all the time now; women unable to have children find proxy mothers to help them. But this was written years before the procedure was done. Anyway, the point is, this is NOT a Pern book. It's a collection of Anne McCaffrey's writings. The first Pern story was excellant, but the other stories were just as great. And to you confused readers out there . . . take a closer look!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing..., December 27, 2002
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This review is from: The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Mass Market Paperback)
I have to agree with many other people in the disappointment they expressed upon reading this book. I am a huge fan of the Pern series and, as such, I expected this book to be just as thrilling as others in the series. I must say that I was sadly mistaken. "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is a rich and captivating tale, and I was thoroughly looking forward to its continuation in what I assumed to be the next chapter. However, as many before me have stated, it was a completely different story. There is NOWHERE on the book that indicates it to be a collection of short stories, which, quite frankly, ticked me off. I felt cheated because of this lack of information, and simply because I believed (and still do) that "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" would make an amazing novel. There is so much that could be built around it, and it simply disappointed me that the full potential of the story had not been met. I don't mean to insult or try to pretend that I could write such captivating works, but I felt the need to express my feelings about the book, or lack there of.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Collection of Stories, January 31, 2002
By AllieKat (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Mass Market Paperback)
I had never read a book by Anne McCaffrey. I remember a friend letting me borrow "Dragonriders of Pern" as a teenager because they thought I would like it, but I wasn't a big fantasy reader then like I am now so I never made it through the first chapter or so. I picked this book up thinking it was a Pern book and not knowing that it's actually a collection of short stories. I'm glad that I picked this book because it gave me several shorter examples of her work.

The first longest story is "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" and is a Pern story. It made me want to learn more about Pern and I plan on reading more of McCaffrey's work. Aramina is a girl with her family, and they are on the run so that people won't find out about and take advantage of Aramina's ability to talk to dragons. "Velvet Fields" is about people that have found a planet to colonize with no people, only vacant cities, and it isn't until too late that they realize that the fields of plants on the planet are the missing people. "A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty" is about doctors of the future that fix soldiers after battle. The medical field has advanced in leaps and bounds and they can heal wounds that would kill someone today. One of the doctors, Bardie Makem, feels inexplicably drawn to one of her patients that hasn't come out of a coma, despite all his injuries being fixed. "The Greatest Love" is one of the few non-futuristic stories, and is about a female OB-GYN in the 50s and her research into in vitro fertilization. The process had never been performed on humans, but when a woman comes to her volunteering to carry her brother and his wife's child to term it's the perfect opportunity try it, and the repercussions, among which is charges of incest and adultery. Those are just a few examples of the stories found in this collection of short stories. McCaffrey is a talented writer, and if you're only familiar with the Pern series, this collection is a wonderful opportunity to experience her other work, or if you're new to her work, like myself, it's a great introduction to Pern and McCaffrey's writing.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Yikes!
I really do love Anne McCaffrey's writing and the stories in this book are great. What I didn't like is that it's a collaboration of short stories, but nowhere on the cover does... Read more
Published on July 21, 2007 by Beckiboobear

5.0 out of 5 stars She does it again and again...
I'm an Anne McCaffrey fan in general, but I particularly love her skill at writting short stories. This is a great collections of various short stories, with lots of characters... Read more
Published on March 12, 2007 by Candy L. Daniels

3.0 out of 5 stars Information for those who want to know
The story "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is included in another book of short stories, all of them about Pern. Read more
Published on February 6, 2007 by J. Monks

3.0 out of 5 stars The buyer needs to know . . .
. . . that although the title of the book is "The Girl who Heard Dragons", only the first story (and many of the details in the introduction) is actually a short story about Pern... Read more
Published on January 22, 2007 by David Zampino

1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading
When I purchased this book (at a bookstore) I had no idea that it was collection of short stories. If I had just read the online reviews I would of thought twice about purchasing... Read more
Published on July 18, 2006 by J. Schlosser

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of short stories from Anne McCaffrey
I enjoyed all of the stories in this collection, but then, I'm an avid Anne McCaffrey fan: I loved all of the Pern books, and I thought - it couldn't get better than this. Read more
Published on February 26, 2006 by Sandi

2.0 out of 5 stars The Ending
The story itself is wonderful but,I do not like how you decived me into thinking that the whole book was about the girl who heard dragons. Read more
Published on January 21, 2005

1.0 out of 5 stars a bit disappointing
When I bought this book in the bookstore, it sounded exciting, but unfortunately, it does not say anywhere on the cover (or even inside - to my knowledge) that it is a collection... Read more
Published on August 16, 2004 by L. Frazier

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
This is the first of the Anne McCaffery books that i have read. I was expecting a really good read and i had read a few of the first pages that looked really good! Read more
Published on February 11, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Fraud
I must admit, I like the majority of the stories in this collection. Why one star? Because it is a case of outright fraud. Having read the reviews on Amazon. Read more
Published on February 4, 2004

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