Dragonriders of Pern
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1. Dragonflight
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1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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On a beautiful world called Pern, Lessa is an outcast survivor--her parents murdered, her birthright stolen--a fierce young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. That is, until an ambitious young dragonrider, F'lar, offers her something even greater: the chance to lead Pern at his side by Impressing a golden dragon with whom she will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Although there is also her intense relationship...
2. Dragonquest
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2.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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Lessa and her golden queen dragon may have given their world a fighting chance against the deadly Thread by bringing several hundred dragons and their riders forward in time, but this has also caused other problems to arise. The Oldtimers, as they are known, are having a difficult time adjusting to their more modern world, and tensions are rising. Worse, Threadfall is becoming more unpredictable, which makes it harder to combat. Inspired by Lessa's...
3. Dragonsong
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Because of her father's adamant disapproval of her unwomanly ambition to be a Harper, Menolly, a young girl of Pern, braves the deadly perils of Threadfall and redirects her life, aided by nine fire lizards.
On the planet Pern, after her father forbids her to indulge in music in any way, fifteen-year-old Menolly runs away and takes shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
4. Dragonsinger
5. Get off the unicorn
7. Dragondrums
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
The planet Pern has been colonized for centuries by humans. When humans first settled on this world, they did not take notice of its sister planet, which had an indigenous life form that attempted to land on Pern when it came within reach. These silver...
8. Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
9. Nerilka's story: a Pern adventure
10. Dragonsdawn
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10.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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A novel that takes place before the Dragonriders of Pern series. This describes how the planet Pern was colonized & the origins of the deadly Threadfall.
11. The dragonlover's guide to Pern
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12.
Average Rating:
1.7 stars
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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. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had...
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13.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened...
14. The Chronicles of Pern: First fall
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars, to colonize the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck in the form of Thread, deadly silver spores that fell like rain from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. And as the human colonists' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered...
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books have been national bestsellers. The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers--a big, satisfying compilation of her fiction. Best of all, it opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of Aramina, a teenage girl whose special skill does not seem likely to help solve her family's...
17. Dragonseye
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path - animals, plants, and people alike. Who would believe that such a horrible thing could exist? After all, it's been two hundred years since Thread supposedly fell on Pern. No one alive remembers that first onslaught. There's no sign of it anywhere in the world. Only the dragons, originally created to be a weapon against Thread, are still around...
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18.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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In a time when the deadly scourge Thread has not fallen on Pern for centuries--and many dare to hope that Thread will never fall again--a boy is born to Harper Hall. A musical prodigy who has the ability to speak with the dragons, he is called Robinton, and he is destined to be one of the most famous and beloved leaders Pern has ever known. It is a perilous time for the harpers who sing of Thread--they are being turned away from holds, derided, attacked,...
19. Legends: short novels by the masters of modern fantasy
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20.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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It is a time of hope and regret, of endings and beginnings. The Red Star, that celestial curse whose eccentric orbit was responsible for Thread, has been shifted to a harmless orbit, and the current Threadfall will be the last. Technological marvels are changing the face of life on Pern. And the dragonriders, led by F'lessan, son of F'lar and Lessa and rider of bronze Golanth, and Tia, rider of green Zaranth, must forge a new place for themselves...
21. A gift of dragons
22. Dragon's kin
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22.
Average Rating:
1 stars
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Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great Holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization. Mining is fraught with danger. Fortunately, the camp has a watch-wher, a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to specialized work in the dark, cold mineshafts. Kindan's father is the...
23. Legends II: new short novels by the masters of modern fantasy
25. Dragon's fire
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25.
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At Natalon's mining camp, Pellar embarks on a secret mission to discover whether the condemned criminals known as the Shunned are stealing coal. But the gifted tracker discovers that a far more treacherous plot is unfolding. A heartless thief named Tenim has realized there is profit to be made from firestone, the volatile mineral that enables the dragons of Pern to burn the lethal Thread out of the sky. When the last remaining firestone mine explodes,...
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26.
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Kindan is an apprentice harper at the Harper Hall but he is finding the lessons very difficult & although he has his friends, Nonala, Kelsa & Verilan, he also has enemies, such as the bully Vaxoram. Things begin to improve for Kindan when he beats Vaxoram in a duel & Vaxoram becomes first his servant & then gradually his friend.;Kindan is an apprentice harper at the Harper Hall but he is finding the lessons very difficult and although he has his friends,...
29. Dragon's time: a Dragonriders of Pern novel
30. Sky dragons
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30.
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Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.
31. Dragon's code
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Series Volume:
31.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi's most beloved series--Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern--relaunches with this original adventure from Anne's daughter, Gigi McCaffrey. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does her mother proud, adding to the family tradition of spinning unputdownable tales that recount the adventures of the brave inhabitants of a distant planet who battle the pitiless...