

Damia's Children
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Series: Tower and Hive #3
Narrator: Jean Reed Bahle
Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Series: Tower and Hive #3
Narrator: Jean Reed Bahle
Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.
A serious improvement over its predecessor. I'm glad I stuck with this series after all.......more
I will say upfront that this is less a novel and more a series of novelettes focused on Damia’s children. Probably because of this, the novel is probably the most successful of the series to date. The story is also the most sci-fi, actually moving the Hive plot forward. There was less emphasis on th......more
Audio review. I love this series and have read it numerous times over the years. This time I listened to the audiobook and loved it. I have noticed that people are so picky about this series, I don't see why ! They are great stories. Fantasy, Space adventures, aliens, romance, family; this series ha......more
I so, SO loved this book! I have loved every one of Ms McCaffrey's books that I've read so far! I really enjoy revisiting this series. I enjoy watching the Gwyn-Raven clan, and all their subgroups, as they progress in life. Learning how the children grow up and how their parents and grandparents deal......more
I wanted to like this, as it is a return to my genre sci-fi roots, but I found this particular work quite disappointing. It's not really a book, more like 3-4 novellas strung together without any overarching point. I tossed this book while in jr. high, because I thought I had the "villain" in the sec......more