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ANNE McCAFFREY |
| INTRODUCTION
BY BRANDON SANDERSON
DRAGONDRUMS
A HARPER HALL OF PERN NOVEL |
| 首位獲得雨果獎和星雲獎的女作家安妮．麥考菲利筆下知名作品《神龍紀元：飛龍騎士》系列作。多年來本系列曾多次改編為桌遊及電動遊戲，近期者為育碧娛樂公司（Ubisoft Entertainment SA）於二○○一年發行之同名電腦遊戲《神龍紀元：飛龍騎士》（Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern）。 本作由知名奇幻作家布蘭登．山德森專文導讀。 As Menolly navigates her way as the first journeywoman Harper in the history of Pern, fellow student Piemur is asked to leave Harper Hall. Secretly, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to become a dragonrider—and he will soon embark on a dangerous mission to the Southern Hold. Anne McCaffrey＇s enchanting tales of Pern, with all their colorful dragons and fantastic characters, have won her millions of fans around the world. The winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award, she is one of the best-loved writers in all of fantasy literature. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－-
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This time the dismissal was final because the Master slanted his head against his fist and closed his eyes, shamming weariness. Quickly Piemur walked to the entrance, blinking at the bright sunlight after the darker hall. He paused on the bottom step, reluctant to take the final one that severed his association with Master Shonagar. There was a sudden hard lump in his throat that had nothing to do with his voice change. He swallowed, but the sensation of constriction remained. He rubbed at his eyes with knuckles that came away moist and stood, fists clenched at his thighs, trying not to blubber. Master Robinton had something to tell him about new duties? So his voice change had been discussed by the Masters. To be sure, he wouldn＇t have been callously thrown out of the Harper Hall and sent in some obscure disgrace back to his herdsman father and the dreary life of a beast farmer simply because he no longer had his soprano voice. No, that wouldn＇t be his fate, despite the fact that singing was his one undeniable harper skill. As Talmor said of his gitar and harp playing, he could accompany so long as his playing was drowned out by loud singing or other instruments. The drums and pipes he made under Master Jerint＇s guidance were only passable and never got stamped for sale at Gathers. He copied scores accurately enough when he put his mind to it, but he always found so many more interesting things to do than spending hours cramping his fingers, to renew Records someone else could do more neatly and in half the time. Yet, when pushed to it, Piemur didn＇t actually mind scribing, if he were allowed to add his own embellishments. Which he wasn＇t. Not with Master Arnor looking over his shoulder and muttering about wasted ink and hide. Piemur sighed deeply. The only thing he was really adept at was singing, and that was no longer possible. Forever? No, not forever! He spread his fingers in rejection of that prospect and then closed them into tighter fists. He＇d be able to sing all right: he＇d learned too much from Master Shonagar about voice production and phrasing and interpretation, but he might not have a voice as an adult. And he wasn＇t going to sing unless he did! He had his reputation. Better if he never opened his mouth to sing another note…. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－-
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| ■安妮．麥考菲利／Anne Inez McCaffrey（1926/04/01–2011/11/21） 知名美國愛爾蘭裔奇幻作家安妮．麥考菲利，以《神龍紀元：飛龍騎士》（Dragonriders of Pern）聞名於世，且為首位獲得雨果獎及星雲獎的女作家。發刊於一九七八年的作品《白龍》更成為首次躍登紐約時報暢銷書名單的科幻小說。二○○五年美國科幻和奇幻作家協會將麥考菲利列為第廿二位大師，隔年六月十七日，麥考菲利榮登科幻名人堂。二○一一年十一月廿一日，麥考菲利女士因中風病逝於愛爾蘭自宅，享壽八十有五。 Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey＇s forty-six-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science fiction books to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. In 1999, she was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its twenty-second Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. |
| 作者：安妮．麥考菲利／Anne Inez McCaffrey 導讀：布蘭登．山德森／Brandon Sanderson 叢書系列：The Harper Hall of Pern, Book 3. 版本：Reissue Edition 規格：小平裝／Mass Market Paperback，10.8 x 17.9 x 1.9 cm，256頁 出版商：Simon & Schuster 品牌：Saga Press 出版日期：2015年04月28日 語言：英文 ISBN-13：978-1-4814-2582-7 Dragondrums 新書。 Dragondrums new book. ★消費滿額可享免運優惠★
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