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Acorna
Acorna is a "Unicorn Girl", a fantasy fiction character created by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in their novel '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). The Acorna Universe series includes ten science fantasy novels, the first two by McCaffrey and Ball, while the following ones were co-written by McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1999 to 2007). The Acorna series is a sub-set of the Federated Sentient Planets Universe. Other sub-sets include the Crystal Singer series, the Brain and Brawn Ship series and the Dragonriders of Pern series, all predominantly authored by Anne McCaffrey. Other contributors to the Acorna series include Jody Lynn Nye, Lyman Frakoss, Roman R. Ranieri and Mickey Zucker Reichert. . Retrieved 2015-01-08. The series focuses primarily on the character, the orphaned Unicorn-girl introduced in the first book. Acorna has special powers including the abilities to heal, make things grow, detect venom, detect chemical imbalances, detect mineral and metal depos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna
Acorna is a "Unicorn Girl", a fantasy fiction character created by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in their novel '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). The Acorna Universe series includes ten science fantasy novels, the first two by McCaffrey and Ball, while the following ones were co-written by McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1999 to 2007). The Acorna series is a sub-set of the Federated Sentient Planets Universe. Other sub-sets include the Crystal Singer series, the Brain and Brawn Ship series and the Dragonriders of Pern series, all predominantly authored by Anne McCaffrey. Other contributors to the Acorna series include Jody Lynn Nye, Lyman Frakoss, Roman R. Ranieri and Mickey Zucker Reichert. . Retrieved 2015-01-08. The series focuses primarily on the character, the orphaned Unicorn-girl introduced in the first book. Acorna has special powers including the abilities to heal, make things grow, detect venom, detect chemical imbalances, detect mineral and metal depos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's Triumph
''Acorna's Triumph'' is a 2004 science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the seventh book in the Acorna , Acorna Universe series, which McCaffrey and Margaret Ball (writer), Margaret Ball initiated in ''Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). ''Triumph'' completed Acorna's biography, which is sometimes called the Acorna series. It was followed by First Warning (novel), First Warning, sometimes called the first book of the Acorna's Children trilogy. . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Plot synopsis Acorna's lifemate, Aari, has returned home, and the two may together finish rebuilding their home world. Yet the Aari that has returned from his time travels is different from the one who left, to the point that he almost doesn't remember Acorna or the lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's Rebels
''Acorna's Rebels'' (2003) is a fantasy or science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the sixth in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). ''Rebels'' was preceded by '' Acorna's Search'' and followed by ''Acorna's Triumph ''Acorna's Triumph'' is a 2004 science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the seventh book in the Acorna , Acorna Universe series, which McCaffrey and Margaret Ball (writer), Margaret Ball initi ...'', the seventh and last in Acorna's biography. . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Acorna, a member of the unicorn-like Linyaari race, has finally found her people. Once conquered, their world scoured flat, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's Search
''Acorna's Search'' (2001) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the fifth in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). ''Search'' was preceded by ''Acorna's World'' and followed by ''Acorna's Rebels ''Acorna's Rebels'' (2003) is a fantasy or science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the sixth in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in '' Acorna: The Unicorn ...''. . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Plot summary The homeworld Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari - the unicorn girl's gentle, spiritual race - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's Quest
''Acorna's Quest'' (1998) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball. It is the sequel to their ''Acorna: The Unicorn Girl''; those two were the first books in the Acorna Universe series. McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough continued the series beginning with ''Acorna's People ''Acorna's People'' (1999) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the third book published in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in '' Acorna: The Uni ...'' (1999). . Plot synopsis Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn and her "funny" feet and hands. And she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's World
''Acorna's World'' (2000) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the fourth in the Acorna , Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball (writer), Margaret Ball in ''Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). ''World'' was preceded by ''Acorna's People'' followed by ''Acorna's Search''. . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Plot summary Having come to understand her Linyaari past, Acorna has become a member of the crew of the ''Condor'', a salvage ship. The crew consists of the mildly eccentric Captain Becker, the ship's feline first mate RK (otherwise known as Roadkill), and Aari, a Linyaari who is still scarred physically and emotionally from his capture and subsequent torture by the Khleevi. While searching space for salvag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorna's People
''Acorna's People'' (1999) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It was the third book published in the Acorna Universe series initiated by McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997); McCaffrey and Scarborough have extended the series through ten books as of 2011. . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. Synopsis In the book, Acorna Acorna is a "Unicorn Girl", a fantasy fiction character created by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in their novel '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). The Acorna Universe series includes ten science fantasy novels, the first two by McCaffrey an ... has finally been reunited with her people - the Linyaari -and has travelled to the new homeworld of her people Narhii - Vhiliinyar to learn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-Irish writer known for the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, ''Weyr Search'', 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, ''Dragonrider'', 1969). Her 1978 novel ''The White Dragon (novel), The White Dragon'' became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd SFWA Grand Master, Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007. Life and career Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of three children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Warning (novel)
''First Warning'' (2005) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It is the first book in the trilogy ''Acorna's Children'', which is part of the Acorna Universe series that McCaffrey and Margaret Ball Margaret Ball (1515–1584) was a prominent member of 16th-century Irish society, who, despite being the widow of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, was arrested for her adherence to the Catholic faith and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Cas ... initiated in '' Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997). . Retrieved 2011-11-03. • Select a particular title for its publication history. Select a particular edition (title) from a publication history for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents. ''First Warning'' chronicles the adventures of Khorii. She is the daughter of Acorna and Aari, main characters in the earlier books. It is a coming-of-age story in a sense, and as Khorii ages she learns to us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Ball (writer)
Margaret Elizabeth Ball (born November 7, 1947) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels. Under the pseudonym of Catherine Lyndell, she has also written romance. Ball has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 .... A former Fulbright scholar and UCLA professor, she devotes her time to fabric arts and embeadery. Married with two children, she lives in Austin, Texas. Bibliography Tamai Series * ''Flameweaver ''(1991) * ''Changeweaver ''(1993) Acorna series (contributor) * ''Acorna: The Unicorn Girl'' (1997) (with Anne McCaffrey) * ''Acorna's Quest'' (1998) (with Anne McCaffrey) Brainship series * ''Partnership (novel), Partnership'' (1992) (with Anne McCaffrey) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (born March 23, 1947) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy and Registered Nurse who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She has published over 40 novels, as well as collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on multiple series. Biography Elizabeth Ann Scarborough grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. She was earned a RN from Bethany Hospital School of Nursing in 1968. She was a practicing nurse for well over a decade, including 5 years as an RN in the US Army, one year of which she served in Vietnam during the eponymous war. Her writing career began in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, following which she entered the University of Alaska, earning a BA Magna Cum Laude in 1987. She is still an active novelist publishing at least one novel in every year after 1986, except for 1990, 2011, 2013, and 2014 (in which she published short story collections instead). She now publishes the bulk of her independent work through Gypsy Shadow Publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye (born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer. She is the author or co-author of approximately forty published novels and more than 100 short stories. She has specialized in science fiction or fantasy action novels and humor. Her humorous series range from contemporary fantasy (''The Magic Touch'' and ''Mythology 101'') to military science fiction (''Strong Arm Tactics'' and a new series beginning with ''View from the Imperium''). About one-third of her novels are collaborations, either as a co-author or as the author of a sequel. She has been an instructor of the Fantasy Writing Workshop at Columbia College Chicago (2007) and she teaches the annual Science Fiction Writing Workshop at DragonCon. Nye began collaborating with Robert Lynn Asprin on the MythAdventures series in 2003 with the publication of the collection ''Myth-told Tales'' and the novel ''Myth Alliances''. Since Asprin's death in 2008 she has continued that humorous fantasy se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
