By: Anne Mccaffrey Publisher: Del Rey Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Del Rey Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: November 12, 1985 Release Date: November 12, 1985
Product Description: Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....
crystal singer This is the first book in the Crystal Singer series.
Killashandra Ree is a music student, who has just failed her vocal finals. For ten years she worked her butt off, learning a galactic repertoire, endlessly practicing her music, and dreaming of being an opera diva - only to learn in her finals that her voice is unsuitable.
Feeling betrayed and emotionally reeling she runs from the music center, wondering what to do with her life, and accidentally meets a Crystal Singer - a highly trained miner of precious communication crystals from the planet Ballybran. He is wealthy, charismatic, and finally - in need of her help. When she escorts him back to Ballybran she decides to sign up herself - for the most dangerous Guild in the entire galaxy.
Mining - singing - crystals is an incredibly dangerous occupation - if you even survive the transition to the planet itself! It can lead to wealth (if you are lucky) and centuries of health and life - but at the cost of always being tied to the planet, and eventually the price of your memory and personality.
Yet to this failed diva, it is a new start in a new life - and as always, she is bound and determined and willing to work her hardest to the best...
liked it I really enjoyed this book and the rest of this short anne maccaffrey series. I am a big fan of her dragon books but this was a very interesting read, with a real girl heroine/character. I enjoyed the story through all three books Anyone who likes a nice sci-fi read that isn't too deep but entertaining would enjoy these books. I did, and I have re-read them a couple of times now.
Not Free SF Reader A woman is a talented singer, however she is not good enough to be the best there is, so she gets a bit grumpy.
So, she goes and takes a job as a crystal miner on another planet, where, for some reason, the ability to sing in perfect pitch is a very useful ability.
The book really isn't as dumb as that sounds, though.
The crystal they mine is a valued and important technological resources.
McCaffrey hits another home run I read this book over two years ago and hung on to it to read again. It made such an impression on me that I can still remember a lot of the book.
Killashandra, book 1 Killashandra Ree doesn't know what she's getting herself into. Killashandra Ree doesn't care. After devoting ten long years of hard work and study, her dream of becoming a top-rank concert singer is yanked painfully from her grasp.
Now she is angry, frustrated and alone. So when a mysterious man from Ballybran enters her life she follows him without reservation.
So begins the adventures of Killashandra as she travels across the galaxy to the strange forbidden planet of Ballybran and it's darkly mysterious Heptite Guild. If she is found worthy she will have more than she ever dreamed of.
But those who come to Ballybran are forever altered and few ever leave. Those who do leave are always called back by the seductive lure of the fabled Crystal.
Killashandra Ree always wanted to be a singer. Now she has a chance to be a Singer.
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