Anne McCaffrey

Dragonsong is the spellbinding tale of Menolly of Half Circle Hold, a brave young girl who flees her seaside village and discovers the legendary fire lizards of Pern....

When the voice of Piemur, an apprentice at Harper Hall, changes, he has to leave the companionship of Master Shonagar behind. But his disappointment is soon replaced by a new challenge....

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell....

It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population....

"Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again....

Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might have to suffer more than just inconvenience....

Leadership of these dragons and riders falls to Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon, who must earn the respect of all who follow her....

Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the Heptite Guild....

Sassinak was 12 when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength.

The shipments of Catteni slaves continue, but they find that they are enjoyably reinventing the creature comforts of home....

The Rowan was one of the greatest telepaths ever born, treasured by the people she saved from alien invasion....

Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others....

In a time when no Thread has fallen for centuries, a boy is born to Harper Hall....

On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound....

Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth....

Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. Then fate intervenes in the form of a virulent plague as fast-spreading as it is deadly....

Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement....

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League....

Now that Pern can look forward to a future without the threat of Threadfall, the people are free to leave their protective stone holds and spread across more of the planet....

Menolly has returned home and entered the Harper Hall....