Anne McCaffrey

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....

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

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....

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....

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

Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. Then fate intervenes in the form of a virulent plague as fast-spreading as it is deadly....

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

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....

Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker....

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....

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....

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....

For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind....

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

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

Disdainful of the frivolity of her fellows on Vega III, Nimisha prefers the exciting and challenging world of her father, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense shipyards....

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

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

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