Dragonsong

Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away. When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl around them. She taught nine of them to sing. Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.

About the author

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series.

Product details

• Authors: Anne McCaffrey
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1983
• EAN: 9780552106610
• ISBN: 978-0-552-10661-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 178 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The Dragon Books; The Dragon Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Science fiction: Space opera, Classic fiction, Adventure fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Science fiction: near-future, Mythical creatures: Dragons, Classic fiction: general and literary