Dragonflight: Volume I in The Dragonriders of Pern

Anne McCaffrey

Feb 2002 · Pern Book 1 · Sold by Del Rey

About this ebook

The first novel in the legendary and magical New York Times bestselling dragonriding series, “a masterpiece of adventure, intrigue, and romance” (Danielle L. Jensen), from Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Anne McCaffrey

“Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels are truly foundational books; it’s hard to imagine the modern-day landscape of fantasy and science fiction without them.”—Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series
 
On a beautiful world called Pern, Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a fierce young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. That is, until an ambitious young dragonrider, F’lar, offers her something even greater: the chance to lead Pern at his side by Impressing a golden dragon with whom she will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Although there is also her intense relationship with F’lar himself.
 
But Lessa’s fierceness and courage will be put to the test when an ancient scourge returns to the land: a deadly silver spore that falls from the sky, destroying all it touches. Only dragons can fight this Thread, and there are not enough dragons to protect all of Pern. Lessa and her dragon may hold the key to their world’s salvation . . . but executing her daring plan may be costlier than she ever envisioned.
 
Don’t miss the original trilogy from Anne McCaffrey’s beloved Dragonriders of Pern series:
DRAGONFLIGHT • DRAGONQUEST • THE WHITE DRAGON

Ratings and reviews

Loved all the books 📚 first time I read the trilogy was in the Navy on a submarine in the mid 70's. I've read all the books and met Ann in the late 90's and her son was writing his own Pern series in the same fashion as his mother. I highly recommend you take an adventure with dragons and the people who ride them. A great sci-fi series of all time.

Wow, it's been a lot more decades than I wish to discuss 🤣 since I finally began reading the Pern series! Of course the name of the book was different than it is now! Originally, my sister was into it right before my 16th birthday. Of course I was an idiot being a teen in the mid~70's! I had other exciting adventures coming up that summer of '76. Little did I know that I'd be whisked away on a starship to start a new colony on a planet FAR FAR AWAY! Of course that nugget is told in a different book lol. I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I BEGAN TO READ ... I fell into the Dragon Riders of Pern series! NICE !This exciting adventure book is thick with rich imagery about their lives, societal morés (so different between riders & people of the land,) relationships, the regression of technology/medical abilities, & their history they experienced~taught the next. ❤️ Love how lives merged together in the now, previous generations, & into the next generations!

Anne M. , has a very distinctive way of putting together a fantasy book that grabs your interest from the very beginning . Not only that , she has an ability to bring you into the story as if you are a part of it. The way she incorperates the same characters in almost all her novels and intergrates them instills an almost historical sense that brings the stories alive and and makes them believable . I find it at times very hard to put the books down while I tend to other things. And when I finish a book , I feel as though I'm a part of the story and can't wait to start the next one. I've read several already and I'm looking forward to reading them all . I do recommend them to all who loves a good adventure . But be ready to laugh and cry , and feel all the emotions like on a beloved roller-coaster ride.

About the author

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world’s leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards’ Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series.