Anne McCaffrey

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

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

Journey to the wonder-filled world of Pern in the first volume of Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy. 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. All her life...

Old enough to be used Young enough to be broken Sassinak was 12 when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her...

Because he is too young, Lord Jaxom is not allowed to fight the dreaded Thread, so he and his white dragon—Ruth—train themselves in secret. Their delightful, illicit flight leads them into danger—and the chance to prevent unimaginable disaster....

Botany is free now, and so is the devastated Earth. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become....

On icy Petaybee, the planet itself seems to be orchestrating its own evolution, but the planet is also rich in resources, and a ruthless company is poised to take advantage. Yana, an ex-company soldier with strong ties to the planet, tries to intervene....

Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the Heptite Guild....

A crisis point has been reached on the sentient planet of Petaybee....

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

Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others....

From Anne McCaffrey comes a collection of captivating short stories that focuses on everything from spaceship adventure and shifting time-storms to ghosts and romance.

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

For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up....

Day by day the sentient planet of Petaybee is learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech. But few outsiders truly care....

Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s defense, he winds up in a fight for his life against the...

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League....

Sassinak and Lunzie team up with the other Generation Warriors to save the galaxy once and for all from the threat posed by the pirates—and worse—in this hair-raising conclusion to the Planet Pirates trilogy....

These are the first five episodes of Anne McCaffrey's fascinating saga of Pern — in which listeners learn about the earliest days of Pernese history. Beginning with the very first ever Dragonriders of Pern adventure, join the original survey team as they explore Pern and recommend it for...

Disdainful of the frivolity of her fellows on Vega III, Nimisha prefers the exciting and challenging world of her father, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense shipyards....