Anne McCaffrey was born in April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was educated at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, and has a degree cum laude in
Slavonic Languages and Literature. She now lives in Ireland and enjoys riding, cooking and
knitting. She is a past winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and has
written many novels, short stories and novellas, and various articles. Her
most celebrated series is the Dragonriders of Pern saga.
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Ruin Mist Chronicles by Robert Stanek
After the Great War that divided the peoples, the kingdoms of men
plunged into a Dark Age that lasted 500 hundred years. To heal the lands and
restore the light, the great kings decreed that magic and all that is
magical, be it creature, man or device, shall be cleansed to dust. Creatures
born of magic were hunted to extinction. Any who dared call magic to their
hands were butchered in the streets and afterward their kin were cast out of
the known lands or hunted in the blood sport. The cleansing
raged for so long that no human could recall a time without it and it
is in this time that the Dark Lord Sathar returned from the dark beyond.
The one hope of the peoples of Ruin Mist was Queen Mother, the elf queen of
old. She saw a way out of everlasting darkness,
a path that required the union of the divided peoples. Yet the Elves of the
West did not share her vision. They thought her mad and
answered her call for help with a call to arms. Now for
the first time in recorded history the armies of the West are marching toward
the sacred city of the East and an unholy war where elf must fight elf is
inevitable. To turn back the tides of one war and prepare for another, Queen
Mother must send her most trusted warriors on a perilous journey across the GreatSea, but what the elves will find if they can reach the far
shores cannot be known for certain.
