First Warning

July 18, 2005
In bestsellers McCaffrey and Scarborough's charming first of a new trilogy, Khorii, the adolescent daughter of Acorna ("the unicorn girl"), has her share of problems while at school on an asteroid that serves as a refuge for war orphans after her parents go off to use their Linyaari healing powers against a deadly plague. Khorii's roommate doesn't like her feline companion; a bully doesn't care for her android foster brother, Elviiz; and she learns about human nudity taboos the hard way. Matters only get worse as Khorii has to use her powers to save some fellow students' home planet, then keep bureaucrats from quarantining the asteroid's supply ship and the aforementioned bully from hijacking it. Occasionally moving and often amusing, this light but never silly fantasy will particularly appeal to young adults. Agent, Trident Media Group
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August 15, 2005
As the daughter of the famous Linyari adventurer and ambassador Acorna, Khorii feels the pressure of living up to her illustrious mother. When she discovers a derelict spacecraft and decides to explore it, she finds the crew dead -and picks up a debilitating and, perhaps, fatal disease that may destroy her family if she doesn't find a cure. Veteran coauthors McCaffrey (the "Dragonriders of Pern" series) and Scarborough ("Healer's War") combine their storytelling strengths in a new trilogy that deals with another generation of Linyari and traces the adventures of a new and engaging heroine. For most collections. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ "4/15/05.]

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