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Cover artist Michael Whelan Language English Pages 352 pp. Genre Science Fiction | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date May 1994 Originally published May 1994 Followed by The Masterharper of Pern Publisher Tor Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Preceded by The Dolphins of Pern, Dragonheart Similar Anne McCaffrey books, Dragonriders of Pern books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a 1994 collection of short fantasy and science fiction stories by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It opens with an essay on her celebrity, or lack thereof, and includes 23 drawings by the cover artist Michael Whelan.
The title novella and cover story alone belongs to the Dragonriders of Pern series. It had previously been published as a fine book by Cheap Street and would later be included in the all-Pern collection A Gift of Dragons. The story "Duty Calls", written for David Drake's The Fleet, also references previous McCaffrey series; a brainship and a Hrruban (from Decision at Doona) are the main characters. Two other McCaffrey stories in this collection, "A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty" and "The Mandalay Cure" are also from The Fleet series, while the "The Bones Do Lie" and "A Flock of Geese" are also linked. Twelve of the fifteen stories were previously published in various magazines or anthologies; two were original to the collection.
The Girl Who Heard Dragons does not include bibliographic data on previous publication of the collected stories and provides any annotation for only one of them, "The Greatest Love" ("written in 1956").