The Girl Who Heard Dragons
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The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a 1994 collection of short fantasy
and science fiction
by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey
.
It opens with an essay on her celebrity, or lack thereof, and includes 23 drawings by the cover artist Michael Whelan
.
The title novella
and cover story alone belongs to the Dragonriders of Pern
series. It had previously been published as a fine book
by Cheap Street
and would later be included in the all-Pern collection A Gift of Dragons
. Twelve of the fifteen stories were previously published in various magazines or anthologies; two were original to the collection.
ISFDB Publication Listing links to full data on previous publication of eight stories, publication year 1986 alone for the title novella, and none for five stories that it marks "1995" (sic), implying works original to the collection. Three of those five stories were previously published.
The Girl Who Heard Dragons does not include bibliographic data on previous publication of the collected stories and provides any annotation for only one of them, "The Greatest Love" (merely, written in 1956).
Contents
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
.
It opens with an essay on her celebrity, or lack thereof, and includes 23 drawings by the cover artist Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art...
.
The title novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
and cover story alone belongs to the Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by the late American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 22 novels and several short...
series. It had previously been published as a fine book
Fine press
Fine press printing and publishing comprises historical and contemporary printers and publishers publishing books and other printed matter of exceptional intrinsic quality and artistic taste, including both commercial and private presses. Their dedication to fine printing distinguishes them from...
by Cheap Street
Cheap Street
Cheap Street Press was a small publishing company started up and operated by the husband-wife duo, George and Jan O'Nale, in their rural home near New Castle, Virginia. Cheap Street concentrated on publishing limited edition books, signed and numbered, of science fiction and fantasy works...
and would later be included in the all-Pern collection A Gift of Dragons
A Gift of Dragons
A Gift Of Dragons is a 2002 collection of short fiction by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. All four stories are set on the fictional planet Pern; the book is one of two collections in the fantasy or science fiction series Dragonriders of Pern by Anne and her son Todd McCaffrey.-The...
. Twelve of the fifteen stories were previously published in various magazines or anthologies; two were original to the collection.
ISFDB Publication Listing links to full data on previous publication of eight stories, publication year 1986 alone for the title novella, and none for five stories that it marks "1995" (sic), implying works original to the collection. Three of those five stories were previously published.
The Girl Who Heard Dragons does not include bibliographic data on previous publication of the collected stories and provides any annotation for only one of them, "The Greatest Love" (merely, written in 1956).
Contents
- "So You're Anne McCaffrey", (original non-fictionNon-fictionNon-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
essayEssayAn essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
)
- "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986, Cheap StreetCheap StreetCheap Street Press was a small publishing company started up and operated by the husband-wife duo, George and Jan O'Nale, in their rural home near New Castle, Virginia. Cheap Street concentrated on publishing limited edition books, signed and numbered, of science fiction and fantasy works...
) - "Velvet Fields", published in Worlds of IfIfIf is a conjunction that can introduce a conditional clause.If may also refer to:-Music:* If , a 1951 hit song by Perry Como.* If , 1970s British progressive jazz-rock band* If...
, Nov/Dec 1973 - "Euterpe on a Fling" (original to the collection)
- "Duty Calls" (1988)
- "A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty" (1990)
- "The Mandalay Cure" (1990)
- "A Flock of Geese" (1985)
- "The Greatest Love" (1977) —written in 1956
- "A Quiet One" (1991)
- "If Madam Likes You..." (1989)
- "Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the Damnyankees" (1992)
- "Cinderella Switch" (1981)
- "Habit Is an Old Horse" (1979)
- "Lady-in-Waiting" (1978)
- "The Bones Do Lie" (original to the collection)