Crystal Singer · Book 1
Crystal Singer
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN-13
- 9780345285980
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crystal Singer opens Anne McCaffrey's trilogy in 1982 at 311 pages, following Killashandra Ree as her failed decade of vocal training pushes her into the deadly, spectacularly paid profession of cutting crystal on the planet Ballybran.
Its place in Crystal Singer
Crystal Singer is book 1 in the Crystal Singer series. It is followed by Killashandra. See the full Crystal Singer reading order.
Killashandra Ree washes out of a decade of training as a concert singer for the crime of having a voice that is merely excellent rather than perfect, and in her fury takes the one escape route left to a talented failure: crystal singing on the planet Ballybran. Crystal singers cut the black crystal that makes interstellar communication possible, guided into the resonant crystal veins by perfect pitch and split-second timing, in a profession that pays spectacularly and kills or maddens its practitioners just as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345285980