Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Technological marvels are changing life on Pern. Dragonriders, lead by F'lessan and Tia, must forge a new place for themselves in a world that may no longer need them.

"Once upon a time, a long time ago, even before the classic novel Dragonflight was written, a story was published. It was called "Weyr Search" and it introduced to the world the incredible Dragonriders of Pern. Now, Anne McCaffrey celebrates a quarter-century of dragons and dragonriders as she returns to the form that started it all: the first-ever Pern short-story collection!" "Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of...

For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that rained from the sky to ravage the land. Now, for the first time, their dream to eradicate Thread could possibly come true as they uncovered the ancient colonist's voice-activated artificial intelligence system which still functioned and instructed them on how to annihilate Thread.

A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.