'Wonderful descriptive writing, the dragons are totally believable and their riders are very human.' - ***** Reader review

'Read Dragonflight and you're confronted with McCaffrey the storyteller in her prime.' - SFX 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this. A world of dragons and other worldly forces a world of mighty power and ominous threat. The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonquest.Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, introduce you to a whole new world: Pern. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world.

Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches.

The bond they share will be deep and last forever. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright.īut everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. 'Well written, extraordinary world building whose influence can be seen even today.' ***** Reader review 'One of the all time classics of science fiction.' - ***** Reader review

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, introduce you to a whole new world: Pern.

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey