Inside is an alien youngling, with silver hair and a small horn on. 13, 2003) and other titles in her popular Pern series. Three space prospectors haul some space debris aboard their mining ship and open it up. Buy the eBook Acornas Quest, Acorna series : Book 2 by Anne McCaffrey online from Australias leading online eBook store. 2)įYI: McCaffrey is the author, with Todd McCaffrey, ofĭragon's Kin (Forecasts, Oct. Both Acorna and Aari and their creators can ride off into the starlight with clear consciences. While this light SF/fantasy romp is a hopeless proposition for newcomers to Acorna's travels, it serves as a fitting coda to the series.

And of course there is Grimalkin, the felinoid shape-changer, whose antics delay the well-deserved happy ending after all the bopping back and forth through time, across space and in flight from the Khleevi. She must also contend with the return of the Khleevi, disgusting insectoid aliens with evil designs on Acorna's home planet. Writing with Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series featuring the adventures of the brave unicorn girl. Besides helping Aari to recover, Acorna must retrieve a hoard of jewels-chrysoberyls used in terraforming, stolen by a troupe of dancing girls with anti-gravity belts-from three races of sulfur-based beings, the Liquids, Solids and Mutables. Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. (2003), the unicorn girl has finally located her missing life-mate, Aari, though his exile in time has resulted in a disturbing personality change. More episodic than its predecessors, McCaffrey and Scarborough's finale to the charming Acorna saga will please the two authors' many fans and lovers of horses and cats generally.

Acorna by Anne McCaffrey