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Zusatztext “SF grand master McCaffrey and her son Todd combine their prodigious storytelling talents to craft a complex tale of desperation and sacrifice! love and loss.”— Library Journal (starred review) “Smooth! clear writing allows the well-realized characters to resonate with the world of Pern.” —Publishers Weekly “Enjoyable . . . adds depth to Pern.”—SFRevu Informationen zum Autor Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award–winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors. She recently collaborated with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough on the Tale of the Barque Cats books: Catalyst and Catacombs . She lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Pern novels Dragonsblood, Dragonheart, and Dragongirl, and the co-author, with his mother, Anne McCaffrey, of Dragon’s Kin, Dragon’s Fire, Dragon Harper, and Sky Dragons . A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern,® he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even though Lorana cured the plague that was killing the dragons of Pern! sacrificing her queen dragon in the process! the devastating disease has left too few dragons alive to fight the fall of deadly Thread. As morale at Telgar Weyr plunges in the wake of the widespread loss! and Weyrwoman Fiona and the harper Kindan struggle to keep hope from vanishing! a pregnant Lorana decides she must take drastic steps. Nothing short of manipulating time itself will undo the damage done by the plague. But attempting time travel could have devastating consequences-altering history! and destiny! forever. Now! somehow! Lorana must find a way to accomplish what seems impossible: bending the natural laws of the universe without wreaking havoc on existence itself. To ensure the future of Pern! she's willing to take the fateful chance-even if it demands yet another! far greater! sacrifice. ONE The way forward is dark and long. A dragon gold is only the first price you’ll pay for Pern. Cold. Black. Silent. Deadly. Between. That strange nothingness where dragons can go that can only be described as “between one place and another.” “Between only lasts as long as it takes to cough three times.” For a short journey, yes. For a journey from one place to another, anywhere on Pern--yes, three coughs is enough. But when traveling between one time and another--it takes longer. A cold, silent, freezing longer that saps life. Lorana felt nothing, not the warmth of the queen dragon beneath her, not even the tiny, tender presence that warmed her womb. I’m sorry! Lorana cried, her hand going to her belly. There was no other way! No response. Pern was dying, there were too few dragons and riders to protect it from Thread. Slowly, steadily, inexorably, the protection of Pern was being eroded, was dying out. The dragonriders, including Weyrleader T’mar, Weyrwoman Fiona, and all the Weyrleaders of the four other Weyrs, had tried their best, had developed new tactics, had kept adapting, kept striving, kept searching for some way out of their trap. But the problem was that there were too few dragons, less than a third the number required, and more were being lost each Fall. The dragons’ numbers were so few because of the strange sickness that had come upon them just before the start of this new Pass of the Red Star. Lorana, with Kindan’s stout aid, had succeeded in finding help from the distant past and that help had led them to a cure for the sickness. In the meantime, however, too many dragons had succumbed to the sickness--and more to Threa...
