He also helps Acorna in her journey of finding her home and save those who are held captive by criminals. He raises Acorna as one of her uncles after finding her drifting in space, with the help of Gill and Rafik. Calum is very sensitive, kind and intelligent. He wears coveralls and plays the role of a navigator. Calum is a broad shouldered and a grizzled space miner. He later comes to know about the special qualities of Acorna and vows to help her in her journey of finding her own people. He raises her as her father along with his mates Rafik and Calum. Gill is a space miner who found Acorna in her space pod when she was drifting in space as a small child. He is held captive by the Khleevi, who always torture him. A man named Aari becomes the love interest of Acorna and belongs to the Linyaari race too. Acorna also a strict vegetarian and a very intelligent girl. As she is more than a human she is able to attain adulthood in three to four years. Acorna has fingers wit only two joints and her pupils become narrower whenever she feels sad or low. Her silvery hair resembles the hair of a horse and her feet ends have cloven hooves as that of a unicorn. Her unique qualities allow her to learn, adapt and improvise very quickly. She is also able to find out chemical imbalances and help plants grow. Acorna has some unique powers that normal people do not generally possess and the ability to purify air and water and talk in a telepathic manner. Although she has the appearance of a human, besides the horn on her forehead, she is not quite a human. Her hair is silver in color that embraces her as a graceful, tall and a young lady in the latter part of the series. The following are the characters she introduced in the series:Īcorna is a little girl who has a unicorn-like horn on her forehead and a pair of funny looking tiny feet.
The series was very well received by the readers and brought a lot of fame to Anne McCaffrey and established her as an author. In the first novel of the series, she strives to know the reason behind the destruction of her family and race and undergoes a journey full of ups and downs in understanding her individual self. Being introduced as an orphan, Acorna is believed to have some special powers such as healing wounds and curing people, easily detecting mineral deposits, finding out venom and a lot of other powers. Anne was assisted first by Margaret Ball for completing the first two novels of the series and later by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough for the remaining eight novels from 1999 to 2007. The series consists of ten very interesting novels based on the life journey of a fictional character named Acorna. The Acorna series is a fantasy and science fiction novel series written by well known author Anne McCaffrey, whose first novel got published in the year 1997.
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