Author:Anne McCaffrey
The last in a beautifully written, mysterious and gripping trilogy that runs the gamut of human experience and emotion from Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this.
'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES
'Enthralling' -- ***** Reader review
'Over the years I have reread this Crystal Singer trilogy at least 3 times - brilliant story line and compulsive reading' -- ***** Reader review
'Wish there could have been more. Every time I read them, I seem to get more from the story' -- ***** Reader review
'Great writing and marvellous plot lines' -- ***** Reader review
'Love this trilogy!' -- ***** Reader review
'Do yourself a favour and read the whole trilogy you won't regret it.' -- ***** Reader review
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Killashandra was the most gifted Crystal Singer on Ballybran. With her partner, Lars Dahl, she held the record for cutting the terrible, fascinating, and infinitely rare black crystals - crystals that could destroy the brain of a Singer if they were not properly controlled. Killashandra and Lars Dahl together were an invincible pair.
So when, on the distant planet of Opal, a new, beautiful, unfathomable manifestation was discovered, Lars and Killashandra were the team asked to explore the 'Jewel Junk'. All those who had previously encountered it had died. Only the Crystal Singers, with the immune system of Ballybran in their blood, were thought to stand a chance of survival.
The 'Jewel Junk' was brilliant and mysterious, and became even more so when fed with some of Ballybran's precious crystals. But it was to be twenty-five years before the planet Opal released one of its secrets - a secret that was to prove the salvation of Ballybran and the Crystal Singers.
The ghost of Mark Twain is evoked in this outstanding collection of essays
—— Sunday TimesPulphead is a big, fat, frequently exhilarating collection
—— GuardianPulphead has a ramshackle loquacity, a down-home hyper-eloquence and an off-the-wallishness that is quite distinct - and highly addictive
—— Goeff DyerThe best, and most important collection of magazine writing since David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
—— New York Times Book ReviewFrom prehistoric caves to Axl Rose's oxygen chamber, Sullivan's generous, witty voice lights up every page
—— Joe DunthorneThe most involving collection of essays to appear in many a year
—— Harper's BaazarI was totally blown away by this collection of the new new new journalism, or however many "news" we’re up to these days. I think I like it as much – at times, even more – than Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again. And that, for me, is saying a lot
—— (interview with) Zadie Smith , Foyles websiteThe best non-fiction... whether he’s writing about the southern literary tradition or smoking pot in Disneyland, the man is astute, funny and wonderful company
—— Nick Laird , GuardianThe essay collection continues to thrive; of the many I came across this year, the best ... [included] Pulphead
—— Leo Robson , New StatesmanMagnificent ... elegant, engaged and full of feeling... I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve pressed it on
—— Olivia Laing , New StatesmanProof of the power of non-fiction to defamiliarise the ordinary and familiarise the strange... a Cadillac-on-the-freeway tour of Americana
—— Talitha Stevenson , New StatesmanPulls off quite a trick ... he mines the residual weirdness and oddities of the “other side of America” without ever condescending to his subjects
—— Jonathan Derbyshire , New StatesmanSlangy, reported, in the moment... a collection of smart and fizzy magazine pieces
—— Sam Leith , ProspectOf these essays I really, really liked the one on Michael Jackson... Sullivan tells us more interesting stuff in this one essay than everything else I’ve read put together... Sullivan tries to understand the way Jackson thought
—— William Leith , SpectatorSimultaneously folksy, modern, curious, confiding and rigorously intellectual
—— Tom Cox , Sunday TimesThe Southern editor of the Paris Review can write as scintillatingly about the tea party, Michael Jackson or Hurricane Katrina as he can about rare Southern folk blues or American reality television
—— The EconomistOf these essays, I really, really liked the one on Michael Jackson. Sullivan tells us more interesting stuff in this one essay than everything else I’ve read put together - the ancestors who were slaves, the scandals, the voice, the way he composed music; Sullivan tries to understand the way Jackson thought
—— William Leith , SpectatorJim is such a likeable character, unflinchingly recounting in all his worst failures and humiliations
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayA funny, wryly observed coming-of-age novel, it will strike a chord with anyone who grew up during the Noughties. It’s full of quirky period details and Jim is an engaging narrator
—— Mail on Sunday
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