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Dragonquest

Book 2 of Dragonriders of Pern

  • 333 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1971
  • 56 editions

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1 About this book

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.

But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent... before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission... and before those dratted fire-lizards could stir up any more trouble!

Good for readers who want: science fiction, adventure, and dragons.

  • Dragons
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy, epic
  • Pern
  • Life on other planets
  • Space colonies

2 About Anne McCaffrey

1926–2011

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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