Four originals, one magazine reprint: the first story collection
centered on McCaffrey's immensely popular Dragonriders and their
battle to keep planet Pern free of the invidious, corrosive Thread.
As the title implies, the stories form a sort of chronology of the
early days of Pern's colonization. The original survey and
exploration team designate the planet as P.E.R.N.: parallel Earth,
resources negligible. After colonization, the Southern Continent
must be evacuated following a volcanic eruption, the colonists in
their fragile ships aided by intelligent, talking dolphins. Famed
Ruatha Hold is founded by big, genial Irishman Red Hanrahan. Later,
after resounding success in destroying Thread before it can fall to
ground, the Dragonriders expand into a second, then a third Weyr.
Finally, a remnant of the original colonists, cut off from the
Dragonrider groups, are rescued by a Federation vessel before the
Pern system and its cometary cloud, permeated with deadly Thread
organisms, is interdicted, and so cut off from the rest of
humanity. Fairly mediocre stories, overall, but don't underestimate
the crowd-pulling power of McCaffrey's all-but-legendary planet.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space.
Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold — a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.
And here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr.
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