Book description
Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern -- from the very first
space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early
world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be
isolated in space.
Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern
continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas,
guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story
of the creation of Ruatha Hold -- a mammoth undertaking in the early
days of Pern.
And here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by
Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when
dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news
broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene,
came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly
formed Benden Weyr.
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
