Book description
When AIVAS -- the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System -- was
first discovered at Landing, the enture planet of Pern was awed at the
knowledge it divulged. All the history of the people of Pern was
there. Dragonholders, Lord Holders and Craftmasters crowded into the
tiny inner room to learn the secrets of their beginnings. Ana AIVAS
had other gifts to offer -- stored information of old crafts that had
been forgotten, of medicine, music and technology.
Bu the greatest promise AIVAS offered was the chance to rid Pern of
Thread forever. All the great ones of Pern began the long and arduous
task of learning just how to operate the incredible plan -- a plan of
such daring and epic proportions that both dragons and riders would be
put at risk.
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
