Anne McCaffrey

Menolly has returned home and entered the Harper Hall....

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....

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 unusual physical strength.

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....

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....

The Dragons of Pern are the world's only defence against an ancient threat - Thread, an evil rain that devours everything it touches....

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

Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonisation. Before Thread, Dragons and Holds the Yokohama, Bahrain and Buenos Airies, three mighty colony ships from earth, delivered nearly six thousand colonist to their green, beautiful new home.

For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind....

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

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

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....

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....

It’s a plan fraught with risk. Attempting time travel means tampering with the natural laws of the universe, which could drastically alter history - and destiny - forever....

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

Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space....

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....

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

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

Leadership of these dragons and riders falls to Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon, who must earn the respect of all who follow her....