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Aug 29, 1994 | ISBN 9780345368997 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Feb 26, 2002 | ISBN 9780345453990 Buy
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Aug 29, 1994 | ISBN 9780345368997
Feb 26, 2002 | ISBN 9780345453990
Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short-story collection!Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill with the dragonriders as they expand into a second, then a third Weyr. And discover a secret lost in time: the rescue of some of the original colonists before the planet was cut off forever!Building a new life on a distant world, braving the dreaded Thread that falls like silver rain from the sky only to destroy every living thing it touches, flying heroically on the wondrous dragons: The Dragonriders of Pern!
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was… More about Anne McCaffrey
There are dragons all over Anne McCaffrey’s house. Some she’s bought, but many have been made for her by adoring fans and given to her as gifts. I don’t make dragons, of course. But whenever circumstances allow, I do try to bring her American bacon, something she can’t get easily in Ireland, and something which she has taught all her friends there to love, as well! I remember the first time I went to visit her, when she was still living in her old, much smaller but very homey, house. My husband and I arrived at the doorstep, and she immediately began bustling about, frying up some of the bacon we’d brought and sharing a lovely late breakfast with us before sending us off to the hotel for a nap. She made us dinner that night, too–the one and only time in my life that I’ve actually liked shrimp cocktail. Maybe that’s because if you squint your eyes and look sideways, shrimp are kind of dragonlike, and I was eating them in the right company! –Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor
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