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....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

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....

Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path - animals, plants, and people alike....

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....

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

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....

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....