. . . of fire lizards, the periodic Fall of all-consuming Thread,
and the girl Menolly, forbidden because of her sex to realize her
talents as a Harper. This takes place on Pern, one of those Other
planets where the names are vaguely Welsh, and there's a portentous
foreword about the deadly Thread spores, the flying dragons bred to
char Thread to ash in the sky, and the perilous neglect of the
dragon Weyrs as people become complacent. But McCaffrey seems to
have scrapped the story you'd expect to follow from this for a
smaller one about Menolly, who runs away from her Hold when she's
deprived of her music, gets caught in a couple of Thread falls,
lives in a cave with a family of the elusive, much sought fire
lizards, and is at last taken in to a Weyr community where the
people admire her command of the creatures and - being less sexist
than traditional Holdmaster father - encourage her musical ability.
As the master Harper puts it, "(had I but known) you might have
been spared a great deal of anguish" - always a thin thread on
which to hang a whole adventure. For those who are content with the
trappings of winged fantasy both Menolly and her society are
smoothly realized, but McCaffrey's setting and framework suggest a
weightier Peru that the center cannot hold. (Kirkus Reviews)
Every two hundred years or so, shimmering threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleaguered skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away. When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl about them. She taught nine of them to sing. Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone — she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire lizards.
DRAGONSONG is a further chapter in Anne McCaffrey’s world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
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