Crystal Singer · Book 2
Killashandra
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 253
- ISBN-13
- 9781448152070
- Type
- novel
About this book
Killashandra followed in 1986, the shortest of the three at 253 pages, tracking Killashandra Ree's transformation into one of Ballybran's most formidable crystal singers as Anne McCaffrey pushes further into the addiction and body-horror cost of the gift.
Its place in Crystal Singer
Killashandra is book 2 in the Crystal Singer series. It follows Crystal Singer. It is followed by Crystal Line. 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 9781448152070