Various alien planets and sentient beings. Most of it is set on the planet 'Bellybran', but other planets are visited for various reasons. Set in the Federated Sentient Planets Universe

Crystal Line (Crystal Singer Trilogy Book 3) (1992).

Killashandra (Crystal Singer Trilogy Book 2) (1986).

Crystal Singer (Crystal Singer Trilogy Book 1) (1982) (based on four stories published 1974/1975).

Killashandra's ability to sing perfect pitch meets one qualification, she knows, and she passes other qualifying exams in the staging area on Ballybran's moon.Ī few of the Brain & Brawn Ships appear in book 2 and book 3. Only the Guild 'singers' can mine crystal: locate it, and cut it with voice-controlled machinery. The crystalline rock of Ballybran, when skilfully cut, is essential to advanced power and communications systems at the heart of interstellar civilization.

Further, one of its occupational hazards leaves him in a coma, but Killashandra determines to accompany his return home under life support, and to investigate membership in the Heptite Guild of crystal singers for herself. He treats her to a whirlwind romance and the experience of her home planet in ways entirely unknown to her, but sincerely warns her against the high-status, high-income occupation that makes such a vacation possible for him. She dreads a life limited to choral work and supporting operatic roles so she plans to exit both school and home planet discreetly.Īt the spaceport she meets a vital older man who uses perfect pitch, and his occupational experience as a 'crystal singer' on Ballybran, to identify an incoming space shuttle on the verge of explosion. After a final exam she learns that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead. Killashandra Ree has spent ten years studying music and training to be a vocal soloist, anticipating interstellar celebrity. Narrative style: First person POV from Killashandra's perspective.

Anne mccaffrey crystal singer series