Anne McCaffrey

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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.

For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up....

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

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

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....

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....

Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path - animals, plants, and people alike....

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

Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement....

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

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

As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land....

Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the Heptite Guild....

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....