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Overview

The dramatic conclusion readers have been waiting for! -- at last, the finale to the exciting Acorna's Children series by bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own through a universe filled with new adversaries and adventure. She's faced hardship and danger, discovered a sister she never knew, and journeyed to the stars. But now she risks everything, for the enigmatic, mysterious enemy that has devastated the universe through plague and sedition has now attacked for real. And there are other enemies even closer to home, waiting to strike at Khorii's family.

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At the start of this readable light entry in McCaffrey and Scarborough's popular Acorna series (Acorna's Rebels, etc.), Acorna's long-lost daughter, Korii, and Korii's twin, Ariin, travel through time and space in search of the secret of the plague that's endangering galactic civilization. With them is their faithful cat, Khiindi, who turns out to be a good deal more than he seems. After plenty of stirring adventures, the twins find that the secret of the plague lies in the elder race known as the Ancestral Friends, in particular in one not-so-friendly Lord Odus. The time traveling is almost too easy, and the book isn't for newcomers despite the comprehensive glossary and notes, but series fans will appreciate the authors' genuine feeling for their human characters as well as for cats and dragons. (Aug.)

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Khorii, the independent-minded daughter of the legendary Acorna, takes to the stars along with her newfound twin sister Ariin, determined to find the source of the plague that has devastated the universe. Partnering at times with the shape-shifting Grimalkin, formerly trapped in the body of a small cat, the sisters embark on a journey through time and space in pursuit of their goal. Collaborators McCaffrey ("Dragonriders of Pern" series) and Scarborough (The Healer's War) bring the popular "Acorna's Children" series to a close with their characteristic humor and storytelling expertise while leaving room for further excursions into the world of the ever-intriguing unicorn-people. For most sf collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ4/15/07.]


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The wait is over: the last installment of the "Acorna" trilogy is here. Khorii, daughter of the legendary Acorna and her life-mate, Aari; Elviiz, her adopted, now fully organic brother; and her erstwhile cat, Khiindi (actually shape-shifter Grimalkin), are joined by Khorii's lost twin, Ariin, to find the cause of the plague ravaging the known worlds and stop it before it can end all life everywhere. For those readers not equipped with a LAANYE (a learning device invented by the Linyaari people that can, from a small sample of any foreign language, teach the wearer the new language overnight), the glossary of terms and proper names is essential. To solve the problems of the plague, extensive and sometimes overlapping time travel is necessary. Many long-lost characters, ships, cities, etc., appear and, as the saying goes, it's hard to tell the players without a scorecard. As intricate as the threads of the story are and have been, fans can rest assured that all plot and character lines are tied up and explained in a satisfying manner. Fans will find this every bit as entertaining, tightly paced, and enjoyable as the volumes preceding it.
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“Entertaining fare indeed.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060525439
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 7/29/2008
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 428,411
  • Series: Acorna's Children Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.00 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Anne McCaffrey, a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, was one of the world's most beloved and bestselling science fiction and fantasy writers. She is known for her hugely successful Dragonriders of Pern books, as well as the fantasy series that she cowrote with Elizabeth A. Scarborough that began with Acorna: The Unicorn Girl.

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Third Watch
Acorna's Children

Chapter One

Now and Then

Now

Elviiz, with all of the time changes we've been through during our journey and the disappointment of not being able to get Mother and Father out of quarantine, we cannot sleep a wink. So we decided to go visit the LoiLoiKuans and see how they're settling in to their new home in our ocean with the sii-Linyaari. Please tell everyone so they won't worry. We'll be back before you know it.

Love,
Khorii, Ariin, and Khiindi, too. (You know how he is about fish.)

Khorii left the message on Elviiz's portable com—the one he needed now that he was fully organic and missing his critical android modifications.

Then, with the moons shining down on them, she and her twin walked down to the pearl-crested sea, Ariin carrying Khiindi.

"He'll walk if you want to put him down," Khorii told her twin. "We could stop to graze on the way. It would make our story more believable."

Ariin frowned. "He really does need to come with us, and he's so unpredictable."

Khiindi took matters into his own paws by hopping down, waving his tail as if beckoning them to graze. The girls assumed grazing posture and bent to taste the tantalizing grasses growing in the meadows sloping down to the sea. Their horns, a single shining gold one in the center of each of their foreheads, glowed softly in the silver moonlight.

When they were done, Khiindi dodged Ariin's questing hands and trotted ahead, just out of reach. The cat was not about to let the young Linyaari use his crono to spirit Khorii off to the distant past and get her intowho knew what kind of trouble without him there to protect her. Nor, for that matter, was he going to miss a chance to escape the little kitty form into which he'd been frozen by his fellow shape shifters, all because of a very slight miscalculation during a mission with which they'd once entrusted him. If they insisted on continuing to hold their grudge, he would be better able to act freely back in the time before the monstrous Khleevi had destroyed the large time-traveling device. The buglike aliens wrecked everything they touched, and they had wreaked havoc not just with the time machine, but with the whole planet. The ecological damage had been repaired, but the time machine was no longer functional.

And, of course, the fish were lovely, too. The LoiLoiKuans saw the three of them approach. The younger ones, well trained by Khiindi back in the days when they were pool pupils, or poopuus, at the school on Maganos Moonbase, flipped a sleek, fat fish out of the water directly into his mouth. Good. Delicious. They had not forgotten the tribute due to their patron cat.

He barely had time to devour it and no time at all for a good wash and brushup before the twins stepped into the water. Khiindi jumped in after them. Makahomian Temple Cats, his lineage in more ways than one, did not mind a nice swim now and then. However, he remembered the first time he had met the aquatic dwellers, after suffering at the hands of that brat Marl Fidd, who had hurt him badly, then thrown him into the pool back at Maganos. The large brown LoiLoiKuans with their fused legs and flippered feet swam up to surround them. They were joined by their watery hosts, the sii-Linyaari, who were as indigenous to Vhiliinyar as anybody was.

Aari, the twins' father, had transplanted the sii-Linyaari to the current time from a previous one in which they were about to become extinct. They were not an attractive species, at least, not to anyone except others of their kind. They were examples of a failed attempt on the part of Khiindi's people, known to the Linyaari and the Ancestors as the Friends, to create the Linyaari race. Like Khorii and the rest of her race, the sii-Linyaari also had horns—many little ones growing all over their heads. Some had long, waving hair, some had none. They had fish tails instead of legs, and glistening scales, and spoke only in a bubble-accented thought-talk.

Although they had a reputation for being difficult and even hostile back in their original time, Khiindi figured it probably had a lot to do with their rejection by their parent creators. These days, they were quite happy to see him. If they knew that Khiindi was one of the Friends who had made them, they apparently thought his being a permanent pussycat was punishment enough because they were as friendly to him as they were to the girls and their new guests, the LoiLoiKuans.

"Greetings, everyone," Khorii said. "We thought you might like your waters freshened up a bit. Fancy a race to the island?"

All of the sea people were a bit overstimulated from the events of the previous day, when two tanks of LoiLoiKuans had been decanted into the surface-connected inland sea of Vhiliinyar. A nice sea race was apparently just their idea of a good time.

Popping bubbles and other expressions of assent rose from the water as bodies dipped, tails flipped, and the sea peoples left the twins and Khiindi wallowing in their wake.

"Now!" Ariin said. Khorii held on to her arm and took the liberty of grabbing Khiindi's tail. And suddenly, they were then.

Then

One moment they were in the water, the next they were inside a room bursting with fancy flowing robes framing a huge mirror and a chest brimming with jewels and cosmetics. Ariin looked around and nodded.

"Where are we?" Khorii asked.

"Akasa's wardrobe. That's where I found this," Ariin said, holding up her wrist to show off the crono, which dangled loosely on her small arm. "No more questions now. It's complicated. I need to get us back to an earlier time, before we were born."

"This is before I was born?" Khorii asked.

Third Watch
Acorna's Children. Copyright © by Anne McCaffrey. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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    The plague has decimated many planets and the federation has collapsed due to loss of personal. Khorii, the daughter of the revered Acorna, has stopped the plague but it now has mutated into organisms that eat up inorganic matter. Planets and populations lie in ruins and Acorna is helpless to assist her daughter because she has symptoms of the plague and is in quarantine with her husband.-------------------- It is up to Khorii and her twin Arriin to find the cause of the plague and figure out a way to stop it. The sisters travel back in time to the homeworld of the Ancestral Friends, a self-absorbed, long lived shape changing and space faring race that used the unicorns from earth to create the Linyaari race. There they find mutable homes that change shape and resemble of the symptoms of the plague. The key to saving the galaxy turns out to be figuring out why the material from another planet turned deadly and analyze it to find a means to eradicate it.----------------- This is the third and final book in the ¿Acorna¿s Children¿ saga and its space opera at its most entertaining. Typical of an Anne McCaffrey plot is the arrival of surprising twists that readers will enjoy and know there is never a dull scene in this enthralling tale. All the loose ends are tied up and all the questions are answered. Although part of a trilogy, THIRD WATCH is a stand alone thriller.--------- Harriet Klausner

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