Anne McCaffrey

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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

The Rowan was one of the greatest telepaths ever born, treasured by the people she saved from alien invasion....

An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern. Then, without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill....

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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....

Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge....

Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short story collection...