The tale of an ambitious young girl struck down by an alien disease who straps on a spaceship and continues her archeological searches among the stars.
Selected by the New York Public Library for their 1993 Books for the Teen Age list of the...
"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."
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When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be...
Novella, originally published in Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg. Also published as "The Ship Who Returned" in Federations edited by John Joseph...
It's ten years later, and Joat, the eleven-year-old techno-demon from "The City Who Fought," is an adult herself, and by hook, crook, and blackmail (with an assist from Rand, her very own Artificial Intelligence), she's become one of the youngest...
Like a child, the sentient planet Petaybee is growing--learning to respond and communicate. Yanaba Maddock has appointed herself defender of her adopted planet, protecting it against outsiders who seek to plunder its resources. Then Yanaba is...
Simeon was a shell-person - the brain who ran Space Station SSS-900, on the fringes of human space. But things hadn't been going too well lately, and he was more than a little discontented. Though normally he enjoyed his work, these days it seemed...
Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. Old enough to be used, young enough to be broken - or so they thought. But they reckoned without the girl’s will, forged into a steely resolve to avenge herself on the pirates who had killed her parents...