Book description
She was one of the Crystal Singers, the élite, mysterious ones, who
cut the crystals from the planet Ballybran - precious glittering
crystals without which the universe could not function.
Sent to the planet of Optheria to repair the famous crystal organ,
she was - at first - accorded all the honour and pomp due to her rank.
Then her life became threatened and she found herself isolated at the
very heart of the planet, knowing that she alone had the power to
confront and destroy the evil that had permeated the world of Optheria.
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 Achievement Literary Award. Born and raised in the
US, although of Irish extraction, she spent the last years of her life
in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains. She died in 2011 at
the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern
series. Her website is
www. annemccaffrey. net
