It is the voice we communicate with, the voice which utters the words we seek to impress on men’s minds, the voice which evokes emotional response; tears, laughter, sense. Your voice is the most impor...
Arrived. Although human slavery was technically illegal, colonies were being raided for slaves—and that meant a market somewhere. Normal humans blamed heavyworlders; heavyworlders blamed the lightweig...
There’s nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.
The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage.
Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.
There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens.
Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.
Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.
Fire-lizard dance on wingTo the raucous song I sing.Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,Show me how the dragons learn.
Exchange information, learn to talk sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.
But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long....
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
She sorted out the young men. Tanner’s opportunism amused but did not specifically attract her; the blond Nordsen seemed too simple; dark-haired Al-atpay had a kind of obstinacy with which she felt no...
Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and singOf hope and promise on dragonwing
All the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky brea...
Your initial mistake, my dear F’lar, and the Harper’s voice was at its drollest, was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. Th...
She had had to learn that, although it was her nature to seethe, she must seethe discreetly. Unlike the average Pernese, dragonriders were apt to perceive strong emotional auras.
Chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system’s resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed.