Anne McCaffrey

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

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

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

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

Journey to the wonder-filled world of Pern in the first volume of Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy. 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. All her life...

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....

The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. 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...

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....

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

Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s defense, he winds up in a fight for his life against the...

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....

An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern. Then, without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill....

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

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....

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

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. Beginning with the very first ever Dragonriders of Pern adventure, join the original survey team as they explore Pern and recommend it for...

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....

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