Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern and discover not only its flora, fauna, population and cultural hierarchy, but the history of an entire civilization. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this.

Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants - THE TIMES
I have never read better -- ***** Reader review
Best book I've read in a long time. -- ***** Reader review
Pern - what a magical place. The author brings not only the characters but the whole world to life. Wonderful. Love it. -- ***** Reader review
Compulsive reading -- ***** Reader review

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A VITAL RACE AGAINST TIME...

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads begins falling again. So the bold dragonriders take to the skies and their magnificent dragons swirl and swoop in space, belching flames that destroy the shimmering strands before they reached the ground.

But F'lar knows he has to find a better way to protect the peoples and lands of Pern, and he has to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers can breed any more dissent...before his brother F'nor will be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission...and before the mercurial fire lizards can cause even more trouble...

The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonsong.