Lyon's Pride is a 1994 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...

, which continues the storyline begun in Damia's Children

Damia's Children

Damia's Children is a 1993 science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey, forming part of the Talent series. Damia's Children forms a two-part story with the novel Lyon's Pride.-Plot:...

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Humans and their alien allies the Mrdini

Mrdini

The Mrdini are a fictional extraterrestrial species from the Rowan/Talent series by Anne McCaffrey. They first appear in the novel Damia.The Mrdini, or 'Dinis, are described as looking somewhat like bipedal weasels with one eye. They grow continuously throughout life, and size—along with the number...

 slowly begin to get the upper hand in their war against the voracious Hivers, with the help of the powerful psychic Talents of the Raven-Lyon family. The novel also describes some of the tensions between humanity and the Mrdini, and describes why the 'Dini have such a different attitude toward war and death than humans.

The conclusion of the Hiver War is told in The Tower and the Hive

The Tower and the Hive

The Tower and the Hive is the conclusion to the series of novels by Anne McCaffrey which began with The Rowan.The war against the alien Hivers is finally concluded, as humans discover a solution that does not involve wiping out the species. A similar solution is found to the main social problem of...

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