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  • Published: 1 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552155427
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $26.00
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Acorna's Children: Third Watch



The third book to feature Khorii, Acorna's daughter

Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family...much less the universe.

  • Published: 1 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552155427
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the authors

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series. Her website is www.pernhome.com.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of twenty-three solo fantasy and science fiction novels, including the 1989 Nebula award winning Healer’s War, loosely based on her service as an Army Nurse in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She has collaborated on sixteen novels with Anne McCaffrey, six in the best selling Petaybee series and eight in the YA bestselling Acorna series, and most recently, the Tales of the Barque Cat series, Catalyst and Catacombs (from Del Rey). She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington (the state) with two cats.

Praise for Acorna's Children: Third Watch

Khorii is definitely a chip off the old horn.Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are experts at being able to draw their readers into quite a complex and already well-established world, without making too many narrative demands with regard to the previous books. Their style is, as always, eminently readable

SFX

Combining colourful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace...this is entertaining fare indeed

Booklist (on the Acorna series)

Demonstrates the storytelling expertise of co-authors McCaffrey and Scarborough. Old and new characters, exotic alien races, and unique methods of problem-solving make this a good choice

Library Journal

Spirited...Fantasy fans of all ages should go for this one

Publishers Weekly

A felicitous combination of authors

Kirkus Reviews