Freedoms Landing, Anne McCaffrey
Freedoms Landing, Anne McCaffrey
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Freedom's Landing

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Narrator: Susie Breck

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/25/2007

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block.Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi. Courageous and resourceful, she manages a single-woman escape from the Catteni and is living in the wilds of the planet when she comes to the aid of a Catteni soldier pursued by his own ranks. Recaptured together, they join forces with other slaves to outwit their captors and a hostile planetary environment.Listeners will delight in this "against-the-odds" story of survival, ingenuity and romance. As her audience has come to expect of McCaffrey, she delivers a rich and intricate science fiction adventure in Freedom's Landing, sure to win over even more listeners and add to her legions of fans.

About Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

Reviews

Goodreads review by kingshearte on February 23, 2010

I've read most of what Anne McCaffrey has written, and find most of it thoroughly enjoyable fluff that I have re-read anywhere from several to many times, because it's quick, and it's like having a coffee with an old friend. I read the first three books of this series quite some time ago, and haven'......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on April 26, 2024

A good science fiction yarn marred by excessive profanity, especially of the blasphemous variety.......more

Goodreads review by Karen’s Library on January 29, 2023

This is my second favorite series from Anne McCaffrey, the first being the Pern books. Earth has been taken over by an alien invasion of Cattani warriors. Many humans have been transported to other planets as slave labor. But the various alien races who rebel, are swooped up to be dropped on an unin......more

Goodreads review by Sara J. on February 07, 2017

Yeahhh. So decided to spend the afternoon doing a little window shopping (viz. going online, checking out book covers (viz. specifically Michael Whelan galleries - yes one of my favourite ways to get recs lol) and series lists and author bibliographies and reading all dem reviews...) and I stumble u......more

Goodreads review by Christine on April 05, 2011

This is a survivalist story, about a group of humans and aliens working together to establish civilization. They fight natives, not in the form of primitive aliens, but in the form of mechanized robots that seem to farm the planet on autopilot. Who owns these machines? They don't know, but they'd lo......more

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