Anne McCaffrey

When the voice of Piemur, an apprentice at Harper Hall, changes, he has to leave the companionship of Master Shonagar behind. But his disappointment is soon replaced by a new challenge....

Menolly has returned home and entered the Harper Hall....

In a time when no Thread has fallen for centuries, a boy is born to Harper Hall....

Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth....

"Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again....

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell....

Now that Pern can look forward to a future without the threat of Threadfall, the people are free to leave their protective stone holds and spread across more of the planet....

It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population....

For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land....

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League....

On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound....

These are the first five episodes of Anne McCaffrey's fascinating saga of Pern — in which listeners learn about the earliest days of Pernese history....

Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge....

When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern's oceans....

Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space....

The Rowan was one of the greatest telepaths ever born, treasured by the people she saved from alien invasion....

Dragonsong is the spellbinding tale of Menolly of Half Circle Hold, a brave young girl who flees her seaside village and discovers the legendary fire lizards of Pern....

Sassinak was 12 when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength.

Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others....

Botany is free now, and so is the devastated Earth. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become....