Get Off The Unicorn

McCaffrey, Anne

ISBN 10: 0552109657 / ISBN 13: 9780552109659

Published by Transworld / Corgi, 1980

About this Item

© 1977: A collection of 14 short stories by Anne McCaffrey. 3rd printing of 1979 edition:- Contents: Lady In The Tower / A Meeting Of Minds / Daughter / Dull Drums / Changeling / Weather On Welladay / The Thorns Of Barevi / Horse From A Different Sea / The Great Canine Chorus / Finder's Keepers / A Proper Santa Claus / The Smallest Dragonboy / Apple / Honeymoon:- Synopsis: From the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing. 'The Smallest Dragonboy' - The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon. But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons - someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all. And thirteen other superb stories from the author of 'Dragonflight', 'Dragonsong' and 'Dragonsinger: Harper Of Pern':- (original cost £1.50).

Seller Inventory # 12.001.00162

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Get Off The Unicorn
• Publisher: Transworld / Corgi
• Publication Date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0552109657
• ISBN 13: 9780552109659
• Binding: Paperback: 7" x 4¼"
• Illustrator: Cover Art: David Roe
• Edition: 1979 Edition
• Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

From the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing...

The Smallest Dragon Boy. The only thing Keevan wanted in his life was to be a dragonrider just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small and there were always more boys than there were dragons -- someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most jighly-prized dragons of all...

This and thirteen other superb stories are collected for the first time here, in Get Off the Unicorn.

About the Author

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.