Anne McCaffrey

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....

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

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

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....

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

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....

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

For more than 30 years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons...

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....

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

Molly, Charity, Barbara, Dorotea, and Amalda are members of an elite cadre of beings who have stepped out of the ordinary human race to enter their own! “Talents” are extraordinary people who read minds, heal bodies, and foretell the future. Despite this, they have become pariahs....

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....

A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles....

Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might have to suffer more than just inconvenience....

Yana and Sean are beside themselves with joy over the arrival of their twins Ronan and Murel....

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.

As director of a parapsychic center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinates the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. She is always ready to welcome new Talents. When an extraordinary man with no measurable Talents appears, however, Rhyssa realizes that she will need to reassess....

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....

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

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....