The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey

...(due to their similarity to the mythical creatures of earth) were developed to combat an unthinking but deadly enemy called Thread, which fell towards Pern from a nearby planet termed the "Red Star" every 200 years or so. Another plan involving genetically engineered grubs was hatched but this fell out of memory, as did the origins of human life on the planet. This is the third chronicle of Pern. In the first (DragonFlight), Weyrleader F'Lar and ...
...time to save Pern from the Threadfall. In the second (DragonQuest), the Oldtimers (those brought forward in time) are not too happy with the changes in Pern since their time and start causing trouble. Also the Thread begins to fall in unpredictable patterns, and an object of the early settlers is discovered, which allows small objects to be magnified. Copying this technology, the Craftmasters of Pern manage to create a basic telescope, and thus begin ...

CaptainDisaster 14.05.2005 · Read full review
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...smarter than most others and the obsession of the fire lizards...assets when trouble strikes and a golden egg is stolen from one of Ramoth's clutches. Now it is only Ruth's unique abilities and Jaxom's adeptness in applying them that will prevent Pern's dragons from flying against each other in open warfare. The only problem is this: no one trusts the fire lizards anymore! What will happen when people learn that Ruth and Jaxom received help from ...
...Time has passed, naturally, since the ending of Dragonquest, so seeing a full-grown Ruth where before there was a recent hatchling isn't a discrepancy. On another note, this is also the first time McCaffrey ties her young adult series, The Harper Hall of Pern, into the rest of her Pern novels with Menolly, a mainstay in that trilogy putting in her first appearance. The Masterharper's roles in the first and second books don't quite count. Here too ...

Tony_Edwards 13.08.2004 · Read full review
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...writes in such detail about the dragons of pern that its hard to belive that such creatures are not out there some were, but enough of my wishfull thinking. though the pern books are, to me best read in order, thay do contain a whole story in one book. if you only want to read one of her pern books, then from the series this is my favorite.the book is set on a planet called pern that has been collanised be people from earth and is about how their ...
...creature as it grows from the words written by anne mcaffrey and as the characters evolve in the story line it just keeps you wanting to read more. i dont want to tell the story as to me that spoils the read of a good book. but it is a book that i have read time and time again, i call her books "my fairy tails for grown ups books" the white dragon is the 5th book in the dragon series of 14 books. if you choose to read this one as your first book ...

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