Book description
Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space,
raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl
themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to
destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall
that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her
ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no
choice but to run away. When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire
lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she
let her music swirl around them. She taught nine of them to sing.
Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- she was Mistress of Music and
Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated
cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and
Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her
handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination,
particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the
Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own
design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Visit the author's website at www. annemccaffrey. net
