Dragonsong

<p><strong><em>Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: </em></strong><strong><em>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.</em></strong><br /><strong><br />"Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants" - <em>THE TIMES</em></strong><br /><strong>"Do yourself a favour and read ANYTHING by this Author, you won't be sorry" -- ***** Reader review</strong><br /><strong>"A real page turner" -- ***** Reader review</strong><br /><strong>"Delightful reading, well written, and wonderful characters, and Dragons! Lots of Dragons! Bliss!" -- ***** Reader review</strong><br /><strong>"A brilliant read" -- ***** Reader review</strong><br />*******************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong>A YOUNG GIRL'S DESTINY AWAITS...</strong><br /><br />Every two hundred years or so, shimmering <strong>Threads</strong> fall from space, raining death and black ruin on <strong>Pern</strong>. <strong>The great dragons of Pern</strong> hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet.<br /><br />But it was not Threadfall that made young <strong>Menolly</strong> unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a <strong>Harper</strong>, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away.<br /><br />When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl around them and taught nine of them to sing.<br /><br />Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- <strong>she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.</strong><br /><br /><strong>The <em>Dragonriders of Pern</em> series continues in <em>Dragonsinger.</em></strong></p>