Authors: Anne McCaffrey
ISBN-13: 9780345298737, ISBN-10: 034529873X
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1984
Edition: Reprint
Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors. With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough she co-authored Changelings and Maelstrom, Books One and Two of The Twins of Petaybee. McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
A mysterious ailment is killing myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders, spreading throughout Pern's Halls, Holds, and Weyrs. Pern is in mortal danger. The future of the planet rests in the hands of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, and the Pernese leaders. Of all their problems, the most difficult to overcome is time.
Prologue | xi | |
I | Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.10.43-1541, and Ruatha Hold | 1 |
II | Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.10.43 | 25 |
III | Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43 | 45 |
IV | South Boll and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43 | 58 |
V | Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43 | 67 |
VI | Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43 | 89 |
VII | Healer Hall and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43 | 107 |
VIII | Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.12.43 | 120 |
IX | Healer Hall, Present Pass, 3.13.43; Butte Meeting and Fort Weyr, 3.14.43; Healer Hall, 3.15.43 | 153 |
X | Fort Weyr and Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.16.43 | 188 |
XI | Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.17.43 | 203 |
XII | Fort Hold, Fort and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.18.43 | 218 |
XIII | Ruatha Hold and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.19.43 | 236 |
XIV | Healer Hall, Ruatha Hold, Fort Weyr, Ista Hold, Present Pass, 3.20.43 | 248 |
XV | Fort, Benden, Ista, Igen, Telgar, and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.21.43 | 299 |
Aftermath, Present Pass, 4.23.43 | 334 | |
Dragondex | 341 |