Dragonsdawn

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Ultramarine Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1988 - Fiction - 431 pages
Pern 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!

About the author (1988)

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 1, 1926. She received a degree in Slavonic languages from Radcliffe College. She worked in advertising for Helena Rubenstein from 1947 to 1952. Her first publication was a short story in Science Fiction Magazine, and her first novel, Restoree, was published in 1967. She is a well-known author of over 100 books, mostly science fiction, including the Dragonriders of Pern series, the Crystal Singer series, Acorna's Children series, The Twins of Petaybee series, and Barque Cats series. She won numerous awards including the Hugo Award for Best Novella for the short story Weyr Search in 1968 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella for Dragonrider in 1969. In 2006, she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. She has also written books under the pseudonym Jody Lynn. She died of a stroke on November 21, 2011 at the age of 85.

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