| Title & ISBN No. |
Publisher |
Synopsis |
| Dragons Dawn
ISBN: 0-345-36286-1
ISBN: 0-893-66213-5
(Ultramarine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ultramarine |
The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists--until unimaginable terror turned it into hell.
Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything--and everyone--in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed. Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider... And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed--Dragons! |
| Moreta - Dragonlady of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-29873-X
ISBN: 0-345-41957-X
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the eyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders were dying; and the mysterious ailment had spread to all but the most inaccessible holds. Pern was in mortal danger. For, if dragonriders did not rise to char Thread, the parasite would devour any and all organic life it encountered. The future of the planet rested in the hands of Moreta and the other dedicated, selfless Pernese leaders. But of all their problems, the most difficult to overcome was time... |
| Nerilka's Story
ISBN: 0-345-33949-5
ISBN: 0-345-33949-5
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
A deadly epidemic was sweeping across Pern!
Everyone, holder and dragonrider alike, pitched in to help--except Nerilka's father, who refused to share Fort Hold's bounty with the other Holds. So, ashamed of her family and determined to do her part, Nerilka packed up medicines and supplies and sneaked off to aid her people. Her quest to help wherever she was most needed led her finally to Ruatha Hold, where Lord Alessan was frantically preparing the precious serum needed for mass inoculations against the dread plague. Nerilka had long ago abandoned the hope of marriage and a home of her own. Now she found happiness in being useful and appreciated--first the Healers and then Alessan made very clear that they were grateful for her help. She had no idea that her new path would change the course of her life forever! |
| Dragon Flight
ISBN: 0-345-33546-5
ISBN: 0-345-41936-7
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
After ten long Turns, Lessa was ready to come out of hiding, to reclaim her birthright. . .and to Impress the young dragon queen and become Weyrwoman of Benden. Suddenly the deadly silver Threads once again threatened all Pern with destruction. But the mighty telepathic dragons that for centuries had defended Pern were now few in number, not nearly enough to protect the planet in its hour of greatest peril. Then Lessa hatched a daring and dangerous scheme to rally supported from people who had long ago ceased to exist! |
| Dragon Quest
ISBN: 0-345-33508-2
ISBN: 0-345-33508-2
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed any more dissent. . . before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission. . . and before those dratted fire-lizards could stir up any more trouble! |
| Dragon Song
ISBN: 0553258524
ISBN:
|
Bantam Books |
Text to follow |
| Dragon Singer
ISBN: 0553258540
ISBN:
|
Bantam Books |
Text to follow |
| Dragon Drums
ISBN: 0553258559
ISBN:
|
Bantam Books |
Text to follow |
| The White Dragon
ISBN:
ISBN: 0345-34167-8
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
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. Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth was a dragon of many talents, though almost everyone on Pern thought he was a runt that would never amount to anything. But Jaxom knew better, knew he could teach his dragon to fly and to destroy the deadly silver Threads that fell from the sky. Disobeying all rules, Jaxom and Ruth trained in secret. their illicit flights seemed but a minor disobedience--until they found themselves in the path of danger and in a position to prevent the biggest disaster of all! |
| The Renegades of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-36933-5
ISBN: 0893-66284-4
(Ultramarine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ultramarine |
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. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the dragonriders, Pern's greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was protected. Some had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. Some, like Jayge's trader clan, simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina's family, had lost their holds. And they all feared the outlaws who preyed on holds and holdless alike. The Lady Thella's renegades were the most dangerous yet--all they needed was Aramina, whose telepathic link with dragons could help them evade the dragonrider patrols. But Jayge was out to stop Thella. . . and he would never let her have Aramina! |
| All the Weyrs of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-36893-2
ISBN: 0-345-41935-9
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine |
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 radicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F'lar and Lessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered the colonists' voice-activated artificial intelligence system-which still functioned! And the computer had incredible news for them: There was a chance--a good chance--that they could, at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all! |
| The Chronicles of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-36899-1
ISBN: 0-345-41959-6
(Ballantine)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Ballantine
|
Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short-story collection! Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernese ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill with the dragonriders as they expand into a second, then a third Weyr. And discover a secret lost time: the rescue of some of the original colonists before the planet was cut off forever! Building a new life on a distant world, braving the dreaded Thread that falls like silver rain from the sky only to destroy every living thing it touches, flying heroically on the wondrous dragons: The Dragonriders of Pern! |
| The Dolphins of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-36895-9
ISBN: 1-879-37181-2
(Publishing Mills)
|
Random House
(Del Rey)
Publishing Mills |
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. The deadly silver spores called Thread fell like rain from the sky, and as the human colonists' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate
struggle for survival, the dolphins were orgotten...
Now, centuries later, as the dragonriders of Pern were preparing to complete the momentous task of ridding their world of Thread forever, T'lion, a young bronze rider, and his friend Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, made contact with the legendary "shipfish." And as the dragonriders grappled with the ending of an era, T'lion, Readis, and the dolphins faced the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land-and ocean-dwellers--and resurrecting the dreams of the first colonist of Pern! |
Dragons Eye
(Originally entitled in the UK - 1996:
"Red Star Rising")
ISBN: 0-345-38821-6
ISBN:
|
Random House |
Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path, animals, plants, and people alike. Who could believe that such horrible things 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 to remind people that once before their population was decimated, their hopes and dreams and livelihoods almost destroyed forever. For two centuries the dragonriders have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the Threadfighting techniques learned on the fly by their besieged ancestors. And most of the Lord Holders are prepared to protect their people, to provide sanctuary, to assemble groundcrews to search out and destroy any Thread that might be missed by the dragons soaring overhead. All but one. Even now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. Impossibly, one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe‹and that disbelief could spell disaster for all of Pern. So while the dragonriders desperately train to face an enemy they've never fought before, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin and protect Bitra. Such a situation can never be allowed tohappen again. If only a way could bedevised to warn future generations of impending Threadfall, and to instill in them an unquestioning belief in its dangers. Join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern! |
| The Masterharper of Pern
ISBN: 0-345-38823-2
ISBN:
|
Random House |
Pern: a beautiful world ravaged by Thread, the deadly spores that fall like silver rain, devouring every living thing in their path. Pern: where dragons' flaming breath burns
Thread out of the sky before it can drop on the helpless land below. Pern: where harper songs warn of Thread, record history, and prepare for the future. The harpers are the glue that holds the people of Pern together; and no man is more influential than the MasterHarper of Pern. In a time when no Thread has fallen for centuries--when, indeed, many are beginning to dare hope that Thread will never fall again--a boy is born to Harper Hall. His name
is Robinton, and he is destined to be one of the most famous and beloved leaders Pern has ever known. The son of Petiron, renowned composer, and Merelan, one of Pern's most gifted singers, Robinton is a prodigy from birth. As a child, he is already composing music that the apprentice and journeyman harpers play with delight. And he also discovers another gift: he has the ability to speak with the dragons, who tend to reach out telepathically only to their riders. But not everyone appreciates his talents. His own father, driven by jealousy, spurns the boy. And far to the north, in the High Reaches, trouble is brewing in the form of a despotic holder, Fax, who hates harpers in
general--and Robinton in particular. It is a perilous time for harpers. They sing of Thread, yet more and more people are beginning to doubt the return of that deadly
scourge. They teach reading, writing, and history, yet Fax is determined to keep his growing area of influence free of the learning that might sow unrest. And they extol the
dragonriders, whom many view increasingly as a drain on the resources of the Holds. Now harpers are being turned away from holds; and, worse yet, they are being derided,
attacked, even beaten. It is in this climate of unrest that Robinton will come into his own. For despite the tragedies
that beset his own life, he continues to believe in music and in the dragons, and he is determined to save his beloved Pern from itself...so that the dragonriders can be ready to fly against the dreaded Thread when at last it returns! |
| The Dragon Lovers Guide to Pern
ISBN:
ISBN:
|
Random House |
An indispensable companion guide to the wonderful world of Anne McCaffrey and her dragons. Guaranteed to enrich every armchair traveler's journey into McCaffrey's legendary world, this illuminating guide leaves no stone in Pern unturned! Both faithful fans and newcomers will relish the fascinating history and lore of...
The Dragons: How they developed from little fire-lizards into the huge telepathic creatures that carry human riders and fightThread
The People: How they live, the clothes they wear, the food they eat
The Places: What to see and do in individual Holds and Weyrs
Thread: Its appearance and behavior, the threat it poses, and ways to combat it
Updated to include The Renegades of Pern, All the Weyrs of Pern, The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, and The Dolphins of Pern. |
