Powers That Be
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780593029039
- Type
- novel
About this book
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough opened Petaybee with Powers That Be in 1993: career military officer Yanaba Maddock is sent to the colony world to retire quietly, only to find herself defending a planet that seems to be alive, intelligent, and reshaping its own geography to protect the people it has decided are its own. It runs 351 pages.
Key facts about Powers That Be
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough wrote Powers That Be, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 351 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593029039 to find the main one.
Powers That Be is book 1 of 6 in the Petaybee series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Anne McCaffrey writes Dragonriders of Pern, Doona and The Brainship Series, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our science fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Sky Dragons is the latest published Anne McCaffrey book on file, from 2012.
About Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey was an American-born, Ireland-based author best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, one of science fiction's most enduring franchises, launched with the 1968 novella Weyr Search. See every Anne McCaffrey book in order.
Its place in Petaybee
Powers That Be is book 1 in the Petaybee series. It is followed by Power Lines. See the full Petaybee reading order.
Petaybee is an out-of-the-way colony world that a mining conglomerate wants to strip for resources, dismissing local reports that the planet itself is somehow sentient and actively protecting its human and animal inhabitants as colonist superstition. Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Powers That Be (1993) opens the trilogy through Yanaba Maddock, a career military officer sent to Petaybee to retire quietly who instead finds herself defending a planet that seems to be alive, intelligent, and capable…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593029039