- Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), Dragons, Life on other planets
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flow to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface.
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Epic, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey, Mel Foster
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 478
- Publisher
- Corgi, Acervo, Bantam
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- French, Spanish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780785787341
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“BY THE TIME the Aivas had finished its recital of the first nine years of the colonization of Pern, the sun Rukbat had set with an unusually fine display.”
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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