Anne McCaffrey

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....

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

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....

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

For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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

Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge....

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....

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

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

These are the first five episodes of Anne McCaffrey's fascinating saga of Pern — in which listeners learn about the earliest days of Pernese history....