Dragonflight

#1 Pern

Anne McCaffrey

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Corgi
01 January 1984

Science fiction; Science Fantasy; Dragons Fantasy

Series: Pern

"The first chronicle of Pern.

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, introduce you to a whole new world- Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this.

""Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants"" - THE TIMES ""Read Dragonflight and you're confronted with McCaffrey the storyteller in her prime..."" - SFX ""Wonderful descriptive writing, the dragons are totally believable and their riders are very human."" --
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* HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?

To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright.

But everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. And the Queen is fading . . . dying . . .

Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .

The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonquest."

By: Anne McCaffrey
Imprint: Corgi
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780552084536
ISBN 10: 0552084530
Series: Pern
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 01 January 1984
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. Visit the author's website at www.annemccaffrey.net

Reviews for Dragonflight (#1 Pern)

Read Dragonflight and you're confronted with McCaffrey the storyteller in her prime, staking a claim for being one of the influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation - and doing it, remarkably, in the same novel SFX