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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....