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Acorna, the "unicorn girl" has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and intoxicating perfumes are unmistakable signs that everythng Acorna holds dear is in peril. A promise of world-shattering devastation is in the celestial winds-and impending catastrophe at show more the claws of the cold-blooded insectile race that seeks to eradicate all Linyaari and human life from the galaxy...the Khleevi! show lessTags
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Acorna, the "unicorn girl" has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and intoxicating perfumes are unmistakable signs that everythng Acorna holds dear is in peril. A promise of world-shattering devastation is in the celestial winds-and impending catastrophe at the claws of the cold-blooded insectile race that seeks to eradicate all Linyaari and human life from the galaxy...the Khleevi!
Acorna is out in space again when she intercepts a Mayday. Aari, Becker, RoadKill and the KEN unit are off to see if they can help when they encounter 2 Khleevi after the same wreck.
This story appealed to me more than the last two Acorna books. It felt more coherent somehow. I liked it.
This story appealed to me more than the last two Acorna books. It felt more coherent somehow. I liked it.
Acorna and her companions, Aari, her Linyaari counterpart, Captain Jonas Becker, and the cat Roadkill, are traveling on the salvage ship Condor. They encounter a distress signal leading them to a world of sentient, perfumed plants. They discover a wrecked ship and evidence of the Khleevi, a vicious insectile race dedicated to exterminating the Linyaari, Acorna's people, and humans. The sentient plants help combat the Khleevi, whose exoskeletons are dissolved by the plants' sap. Acorna and her friends work to turn this discovery into a weapon against the invaders.
A pretty standard Anne McCaffrey story, actually the bugs as villans appear elsewhere in her series. Readable tho.
The fourth book in the Acorna series some of the backstory is filled in within the first chapter so you don't really have to have read the rest. Acorna is a very beautiful half-unicorn half-humanoid being who was brought up by some humans and thinks she's the only one until she finds more of her kind. She has to work out a way of fitting into society.
In this one she goes in search of a new home and when they hear a distress call they find a world that's lush, when they're attacked by the insectile Khleevi, when searching for a refuge they make a Khleevi ship crash and when chasing them they accidentally discover a way to show more fight them. They race against time to produce the solution before the Khleevi decimate as many races as they can reach.
I wasn't incredibly impressed but it is quite readable. show less
The fourth book in the Acorna series some of the backstory is filled in within the first chapter so you don't really have to have read the rest. Acorna is a very beautiful half-unicorn half-humanoid being who was brought up by some humans and thinks she's the only one until she finds more of her kind. She has to work out a way of fitting into society.
In this one she goes in search of a new home and when they hear a distress call they find a world that's lush, when they're attacked by the insectile Khleevi, when searching for a refuge they make a Khleevi ship crash and when chasing them they accidentally discover a way to show more fight them. They race against time to produce the solution before the Khleevi decimate as many races as they can reach.
I wasn't incredibly impressed but it is quite readable. show less
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Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 1, 1926. She received a degree in Slavonic languages from Radcliffe College. She worked in advertising for Helena Rubenstein from 1947 to 1952. Her first publication was a short story in Science Fiction Magazine, and her first novel, Restoree, was published in 1967. She is a well-known show more author of over 100 books, mostly science fiction, including the Dragonriders of Pern series, the Crystal Singer series, Acorna's Children series, The Twins of Petaybee series, and Barque Cats series. She won numerous awards including the Hugo Award for Best Novella for the short story Weyr Search in 1968 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella for Dragonrider in 1969. In 2006, she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. She has also written books under the pseudonym Jody Lynn. She died of a stroke on November 21, 2011 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born March 23, 1947. She won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War. She has written numerous books with Anne McCaffrey including The Twins of Petaybee series and the Acorna series. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- Acorna's World
- Original title
- Acorna's World
- Original publication date
- 2000
- People/Characters
- Acorna; Aari; Joh; Becker
- Dedication
- To
Andy Logan,
for feeding bodies as well as creative spirits with her care and attention and delicious dinners while she listened to first draft readings! - First words
- Roughly six weeks after she had joined the crew of the Condor, flagship of Becker Interplanetry Recycling and Salvage Enterprises, LTD, Acorna sat on 'salvage watch' at the helm of the ship, surrounded by the softly glowing c... (show all)onsole lights in the cockpit and the billions of stars beyond.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was perhaps the first funeral in the history of the Linyaari in which the beloved deceased was interred to sobs of rejoicing and cries of hope for a better world to come.
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