Okay, I admit I love almost every book Anne McCaffrey wrote. I'm sad she is gone, because I would still be reading her new books. Instead, I go back and read my favorites.
This week, I have reread the first two books in her Crystal Singer series and am most of the way through the third one.
Crystal Singer is about Killashandra, a young woman ten years trained in a music university. She had perfect pitch, but was rejected from being a high ranking singer. On leaving the college, she meets a crystal singer who takes her on a whirlwind vacation. He is brain damaged by an accident at the spaceport, and Killashandra elects to accompany him back to his home on the planet Ballybran where he will be cared for.
Ballybran is a planet under restricted entry, considered a dangerous planet. Once you breathe the air of the planet, you will be infiltrated by a spore which changes every cell in your body. It extends your lifespan, gives you almost immediate healing of any injury and increases your eyesight and hearing. On the other hand, you can't leave the planet for extended periods of time since the spore needs to be rejuvenated on its native home.
Those who opt to live there can become crystal singers. They cut crystal from the mountain ranges. The crystal is used for communication networks. In the second book, it is used for a musical device much like an organ.
Book one describes Killashandra's training as a crystal singer and how she was sent on a trip to install some of the crystal she had cut.
Doesn't sound like much of a story? Well, I'm not Anne McCaffrey. Check out the book and see what a master storyteller can do with a really good yarn.
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