Dragonflight

by Anne McCaffrey

Ebook, 2002

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Someone recently posted a book haul that included a new (or newish) book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, one written by Anne McCaffrey's son, Todd. I've not read any of Todd's series continuation entries, but oh how I loved the original Pern books! I still remember finding The White Dragon in

the university bookstore my freshman year and buying it just because I liked the cover. I had no idea it was the third book in a series, so I was a little lost at not knowing what world I had been dropped into, but I caught on quickly and devoured it. Then I went back to the bookstore and bought the first two, and pretty much every one after that except perhaps the last couple Anne wrote before she died in 2011.

Anyway, that post reminded me how long it had been since I read any of the Pern books, and then I remembered that I had recently picked up this series-opening novel as an ebook special. I had to re-read it immediately, of course. I don't plan to continue with the series right now, but I must admit my appetite for roast wherry and a steaming pitcher of klah has been whetted ...

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:Volume I of The Dragonriders of Pern®, the groundbreaking series by master storyteller Anne McCaffrey On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. Lessa is an outcast survivor�??her parents murdered, her birthright stolen�??a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat to Pern reemerges, Lessa will rise�??upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly . . . and Pern will be chang