The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall (Dragonriders of Pern: 12): five fascinating epic fantasy scenes from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation

<p><b><i>Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: </i></b><b><i>Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this.</i></b><br><b><br>'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' -- <i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><b>'Mesmerising and totally unputdownable' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Staggeringly good' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Another story of Pern I simply couldn't put down' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Just brilliant!!!' </b><b>-- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>***********************************************************************************</b><br><br>Here are <b>five gripping episodes of early Pern</b> -- from the very first space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space.<br><br>Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by <b>a flotilla of dolphins</b>.<br><br>Here, too, is the story of the creation of <b>Ruatha Hold</b> -- a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.<br><br>And here is one of the most fascinating <b>dragon tales</b> ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when <b>Fort Weyr</b> was the only weyr, and when <b>dragonriders</b> and <b>dragons</b> were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, <b>Torene</b>, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed <b>Benden Weyr</b>...</p>