Book description
After a vicious plague swept through the world of Pern, there are no
longer enough dragons to fight off the current onslaught of Thread,
the deadly spore that falls like rain from the skies and devours
everything organic in its path.
Pern's last best chance to rebuild the decimated dragon population
lies with a group of young dragonriders and their dragons left
stranded on an unexplored island. Leadership of these dragons and
riders falls to Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon, who, as the
most experienced dragonrider in the new Weyr, must earn the respect of
all who follow her, as not everyone is ready to accept a female
wingleader. She must solve the problem of how to get sufficient
numbers of dragon eggs, although her newfangled ideas, like letting
green dragons mate and lay eggs to hatch new dragons, cause uproar.
All the while she must protect her people and baby dragons from the
predators and, worse, traitors or all hope for Pern will be lost!
Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction
writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the
Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. Born and
raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she spent the last
years of her life in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains.
She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern series. Visit the author's
website at www. annemccaffrey. net
Todd McCaffrey, Anne's son, is a computer engineer living in Los
Angeles. The approved heir to Pern, his first solo Dragonriders of
Pern novel was Dragonsblood. Visit his website on www.
toddmccaffrey. org
