Anne McCaffrey

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

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....

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....

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

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

For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up....

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....

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

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....

An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern. Then, without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill....

When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern's oceans....

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

For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind....

As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land....

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....

Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker....

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

Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space....

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....