Anne McCaffrey

Dragonsong is the spellbinding tale of Menolly of Half Circle Hold, a brave young girl who flees her seaside village and discovers the legendary fire lizards of Pern....

On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound....

Menolly has returned home and entered the Harper Hall....

For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land....

"Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again....

For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up....

It’s a plan fraught with risk. Attempting time travel means tampering with the natural laws of the universe, which could drastically alter history - and destiny - forever....

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell....

These are the first five episodes of Anne McCaffrey's fascinating saga of Pern — in which listeners learn about the earliest days of Pernese history....

Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth....

Sassinak was 12 when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength.

Leadership of these dragons and riders falls to Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon, who must earn the respect of all who follow her....

Because he is too young, Lord Jaxom is not allowed to fight the dreaded Thread, so he and his white dragon—Ruth—train themselves in secret. Their delightful, illicit flight leads them into danger—and the chance to prevent unimaginable disaster....

Hypatia Cade—a headstrong, smart, and spunky 7-year-old girl—falls ill after contracting an alien virus that renders her a quadriplegic. Robbed of her mobility, Tia's only hope to be free of the prison of her body is to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, a brainship....

Like Helva, The Ship Who Sang, Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shell person....

Now that Pern can look forward to a future without the threat of Threadfall, the people are free to leave their protective stone holds and spread across more of the planet....

Botany is free now, and so is the devastated Earth. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become....

A crisis point has been reached on the sentient planet of Petaybee....

Thomas's Duchess is no ordinary cat. She's a purebred Barque Cat, trained to patrol the ship, sniffing out oxygen leaks and spotting other problems....

Killashandra, one of the most gifted singers on Ballybran, is drawn like a magnet to the song of crystal. In order to work with crystal, singers are infected with a symbiotic life form that heals them and gives them near eternal life—but slowly destroys their memories....