DragonsdawnPern was a beautiful planet, Earthlike enough to feel like home, yet unspoiled by the industrial development and interstellar wars that had ravaged the other planets of humankind. And the few thousand colonists who came to Pern intended to keep it that way. They staked their claims on the land and settled down to build a low-tech agricultural paradise on the world they had loved at first sight. Then suddenly disaster struck. Deadly spores fell like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. Fire and water could destroy the Thread, as the stuff came to be called, but the colonists could not keep up with the relentless attacks. Some other solution would have to be found if the colony was to survive. Then some of teh colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting it to safety. And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed - Dragons! |