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Title: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, Dick Hill, Lee Dreese ISBN: 1590862880 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8
Rating: 5
Summary: Dragonflight
Comment: I only got acquainted with Anne McCaffrey this year, I am affraid. My first book by this author wasn't even related in any way with the Chronicles of Pern but it introduced me to an author who has now become one of my favorites. I had heard of these series of books and heard people talking of them. Living in Portugal as I do, you cannot find books as well as you can in the United States or in England, for example, and I had to read this series in English, which I did not mind at all. But it took a lot of searching...
The fact is, it was worth it. In no time I had become an addict to this author's works and when I first read Dragonflight, I was hooked on the marvellous world Pern was and the amazing relationship between man and dragon, a relationship based on love and trust... and necessity. This is an amazing introduction to a world and a society brought to us by the imaginative mind of Anne McCaffrey.
Lessa is of the Ruatha Blood and when her Hold is conquered by the greedy High Reaches Holder Fax, she sweares vengeance. Working as a drudge, plotting the death of Fax, with a watch wher as her only friend, she grows up for ten Turns with the thought of regaining her Hold from Fax's hands. During the Dragonriders of Pern Search, she sees the opportunity to get rid, once and for all, of Fax. But instead of becoming Holder of Ruatha, she is given the choice of becoming Weyrwoman in the only Weyr left. The Dragonmen of Pern are sworn to fight Thread, the threat which plagues the wonderful world of Pern, a threat long forgotten as it has not returned. But the pass of the Red Star promises the return of the Thread, even if only F'lar, rider of Bronze Mnementh, believes the time has come. In the Weyr a last Golden Egg of a Queen lies, awaiting hatching, when Impression will be made (the total empathic connection between man and dragon), awaiting a Weyrwoman to take the place of the old and a new Queen to reborn the Dragonrider's of Pern who will need all their courage and strength to fight for the future of their world. Will Lessa and F'lar succeed when the Dragonriders have fallen into disgrace to the eyes of the Holders? When a threat is no longer perceived as existent, how can one hope to protect themselves? When hope is lost... there is a spark that will brighten and bring hope back... a spark in the hands of the Dragonriders of Pern...
I highly recommend this book, the first of a worldwilde cult of the amazing chronicles of the Dragonriders of Pern.
Rating: 4
Summary: The beginning of a pretty good thing...
Comment: This is a typical coming-of-age SF/fantasy story, where the protaganist must overcome overwhelming odds to triumph over the forces of evil. It's main selling point is that it's a hybrid, giving us dragons and romance in an SF setting (altho the reader isn't necessarily aware that it's SF at first).
Lessa is the Cinderella of the story, working as hard in her hold as the lowliest peasant despite being the heir. The arrival of dragonriders to the hold upsets all of her long-range plans and she eventually ends up 'impressed' to a dragon queen. This opens the way for romance and more adventures as 'thread' (a burning, sometimes fatal thing that falls from the sky like rain) suddenly returns to bedevil the lives of people on Pern.
The story of Lessa is perfectly aimed at the Young Adult audience, with lots of adventure and many chances for the reader to try to figure out what 'thread' is and where the people of Pern are from. I first read it in my 20s and have reread it and the next 3 books in the series many times since (altho after that the series goes down the tubes).
I consider it on the same par as the Foundation series - light SF/fantasy entertainment. It's nowhere near as difficult to read as Tolkien or Cherryh but you don't get the same payoff either.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect for early teens
Comment: I read science fiction voraciously when I was a kid (still do as an adult. :)) and this novel's one of my all-time favorites. McCaffrey creates a living world filled with history, and truly heroic characters driven by a passion to not only survive, but to thrive.
Lessa is one of the strongest women in science fiction, and F'lar's the sort of man teenaged boys want to grow up to be. Together they form a strong, dynamic couple that shows what relationships can and should be like.
And then there's the dragons.
They are simply awe-inspiring, and its impossible to read this book -- or its successors -- without wishing that some how, some way, you could have one. Their like draconic Labrador Retrievers, filled with love, admiration and more than a little stubborness.
The book's immediate sequels -- Dragonquest and The White Dragon -- are equally good, but I've been disappointed by most of the other books in the series. With the exception of Dragondawn, they just don't seem to have the same passion as the earlier books.
If you know pre-teens or early teens who're into science fiction or fantasy, do them a favor and buy them this book!
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Title: Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345335082 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern Vol 3) by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345341678 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0553258524 Publisher: Bantam Spectra Pub. Date: 01 May, 1977 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0553258559 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345362861 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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