- Hardcover: 286 pages
- Publisher: Random House Inc (T); First Edition edition (Nov 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345298748
- ISBN-13: 978-0345298744
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,343,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A classic tale in Anne MCaffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
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Some fourteen hundred turns after men first came to Pern rode Moreta, on her great golden dragon, Orlith. It was towards the end of the Pass of the Red Star -- a time when every living creature on Pern was threatened by Threadfall -- when the courage and daring of dragons and their riders was all that kept the planet from extinction. And then, at the height of the battle against Thread, came a new and terrible evil.
Moreta, in one last superhuman endeavour, was to save her people, and become the greatest legend of dragonlore until the end of time.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought that I would find it difficult to pick up the characters as they weren't part of the usual series. I was proved wrong! I found myself deeply involved in the charcters early on and as the story progressed I found myself emotionaly moved by the events, especially the ending which was superb. The start was slower than the other dragon series novels but I attribute that to the fact that the characters were all new and it needed a bit of time to get into them. If you find the prospect of reading a whole series daunting, then this will be a really good read on it's own. Having said that, if you read this then you'll want to read the others!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought the beginning of the book was a little slow- it didn't have the fast pace of some of McCaffrey's other books, like Dragondrums or Dragonsdawn. But I was totally unprepared for the ending of the book, which blew me completely away. This is a good book...
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
....would just like to say that this was the first of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series that I read, when I was about 11 years old. From then on, my fascination with dragons can be laid firmly at her door (though with fantasy in general the award goes to L Frank Baum for The Wizard of Oz!!). Pretty much everything Anne McCaffrey's written I've thoroughly enjoyed; it's a shame that writers of McCaffrey's caliber are so thoroughly overlooked by the mass hysteria generated by writers who are in the right place at the right time, those such as J K Rowling (who has the approximate talent of a goldfish).
Hopefully Anne McCaffrey will continue to spellbind us with her tales of derring-do in the sometimes almost medieval world of Pern, not to mention all her other worlds and characters.
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This book is GREAT!!
This is one of my favourite books of the Dragons of Pern and I think it's brilliant. I thought the information about the Influenza epidemic was very accurate. Read more
Published on 29 April 2001
I'm a dragon worshiper but I only think it's Ok.
This is quite a good book althugh it did not live up to my expectations.It has no relation to any other book except for Nerlikas Story and I have not read that at this time but I'm... Read more
Published on 11 May 2000
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