Title: The Crystal Singer

Title: The Crystal Singer Title Record # 2182
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Date: 1982-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Crystal Singer
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: According to McCaffrey's "Author's Note" preceding the text of the 1982 Del Rey/Ballantine edition of Crystal Singer, it "is based on four stories originally published in Roger Elwood's Continuum series. ''Crystal Singer'' is considerably expanded from these stories, thanks to the technical assistance of Ron Massey, Langshot Stables, Surrey.". The 4 stories in question are:

"Prelude to a Crystal Song" in Continuum #1, 1974
"Killashandra — Crystal Singer" in Continuum #2, 1974
"Milekey Mountain" in Continuum #3, 1974
"Killashandra — Coda and Finale" in Continuum #4, 1975

However, Phil Stephensen-Payne's research for the 1984 McCaffrey bibliography ''Anne McCaffrey, Dragonlady and More'' (with Gordon Benson, Jr.) revealed that the novel ''The Crystal Singer'' was based on only 2 of the 4 stories, "Prelude to a Crystal Song" and "Milekey Mountain". The second novel in the series, ''Killashandra'' (1985), was based on "Killashandra — Crystal Singer". The last Continuum piece, "Killashandra — Coda and Finale", which originally completed the story of Killashandra Ree, was not reused in the novel series, which took the plot in a different direction.

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Translations

Year	Title
1982	Crystal Singer

Year	Language	Title
1984^ⓘTranslated by Barbara Heidkamp	German	Die Kristall-Sängerin^?Die Kristall-Saengerin
1994^ⓘTranslated by Simone Hilling	French	La chanteuse crystal
2014^ⓘTranslated by Simone Hilling	French	La chanteuse-crystal

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
7	1983 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination	1983 Balrog	Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Crystal Singer	1982-00-00	Anne McCaffrey	Corgi Books	0-552-11977-6	£1.50^?£: UK pound	302	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Rob Burt
The Crystal Singer	1982-02-00	Anne McCaffrey	Severn House	0-7278-2022-2	£6.95^?£: UK pound	302	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Rob Burt
Crystal Singer	1982-06-00	Anne McCaffrey	Nelson Doubleday / SFBC	3343	$4.50^?$: US dollar	[7]+ 305	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Dennis Meehan
Crystal Singer	1982-08-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28598-0	$2.95^?$: US dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
Crystal Singer	1982-08-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28598-0	C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
Crystal Singer	1982-08-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-613-92199-2		311	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Michael Whelan
Crystal Singer	1982-12-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28598-0	$2.95^?$: US dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
The Crystal Singer	1983-00-00	Anne McCaffrey	Corgi Books	0-552-12097-9	£1.75^?£: UK pound	301+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Rob Burt
Crystal Singer	1983-01-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28598-0	C$3.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
Die Kristall-Sängerin	1984-00-00	Anne McCaffrey	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe ( Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special^?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24057)	3-404-24057-X	DM 8.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	393	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Crystal Singer	1985-12-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32786-1	$3.95^?$: US dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
Crystal Singer	1985-12-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32786-1	$5.50^?$: US dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
The Crystal Singer	1986-00-00	Anne McCaffrey	Corgi	0-552-12097-9	£2.50^?£: UK pound	301+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Rob Burt
Crystal Singer	1991-11-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32786-1	$4.95^?$: US dollar	311	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Whelan
Crystal Singer	1993-05-00	Anne McCaffrey	Nelson Doubleday / SFBC	00609	$7.98^?$: US dollar	305	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Peter Peebles
The Crystal Singer Trilogy	1996-01-00	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-40292-8	$16.00^?$: US dollar	660	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Michael Whelan , Michael Whelan , Rowena Morrill
La chanteuse crystal	1999-04-00	Anne McCaffrey	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5531)	2-266-00025-X		346	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	W. Siudmak
The Crystal Singer Omnibus	1999-10-00	Anne McCaffrey	Corgi	0-552-14762-1	£6.99^?£: UK pound	1079	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Jim Burns
The Crystal Singer	2012-07-31	Anne McCaffrey	Transworld Digital	978-1-4481-5205-6	£5.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
La transe du crystal	2014-05-00	Anne McCaffrey	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #7184)	978-2-266-25024-5		1023	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Jessica Jung
The Crystal Singer	date unknown	Anne McCaffrey	Corgi	978-0-552-12097-5	£^?£: UK pound	302	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Crystal Singer	date unknown	Anne McCaffrey	Del Rey / Ballantine	978-0-345-45745-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Michael Whelan

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Reviews

Review by Debbie Notkin (1982) in Locus, #258 July 1982
Review by Amelia A. Rutledge (1982) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #6, July-August 1982
Review by Chris Morgan (1982) in Science Fiction Review, Fall 1982
Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1982) in Dragon Magazine, December 1982
Review by Eve Harvey (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 6, Number 5
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1983
Review by Joan Cohen (1986) in Fantasy Review, January 1986
Review by Pam Meek (1996) in Absolute Magnitude, Winter 1996