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Crystal
Singers
Crystal Singer
(1982)
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"Her name was Killashandra
Ree; and after ten grueling years of musical training, she was young, beautiful
- and still without prospects.
Then she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the
planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystals was found.
For those qualified, the Guild was said to provide careers,
security, and the chance for wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few
people who landed on Ballybran ever left.
To Killashandra, the risks were
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Killashandra (1986)
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"Killashandra Ree's life
was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to become
a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past.
And at first everything went just as she hoped. In one
season on the deadly beautiful world of Ballybran, she had sung Black Crystal,
grown wealthy and met a man who made her sorrows seem unworthy of notice.
But then a year later, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock.
In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought
she'd die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to
leave him..." |
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Crystal Line (1992)
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"When Killashandra Ree joined
the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed.
Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual
loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when
her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone
still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind.
But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all
her unpleasant memories." |
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Omnibus
The Crystal Singers
(1996)
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"From world bestselling author
Anne McCaffrey, creator of the Dragons of Pern, comes the brilliant saga
of the brave, beautiful, tragic paople who are the Crystal Singers of
Ballybran.
Killashandra thought her world had ended when she was
told she would never become a concert singer. And then she met the stranger
from off-world.
He said he was a Crystal Singer - one of the unique ones
of the Galaxy - and when Killashandra tried to find out what a Crystal Singer
was, the answers were vague, obtuse. All she could discover was that they
were special people, shrouded in mystery and danger and beauty - and something
altogether incomprehensible.
It was then that she decided she too must try and become
a Crystal Singer - with all the dangers and grueling demands made of the
elite and glittering ones of Ballybran.
This is the story of Killashandra and the mysterious
exploits of the Singers." |
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