So finally got to read the first book of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, "Dragonflight"!
Lessa, after ten turns, is now ready to come out of hiding and reclaim her birthright, and impress a dragon queen to which she becomes the weyrwoman of Benden.
Then the lethal silver Thread suddenly threatens Pern again with destruction. Only now the telepathic dragons that have protected the planet for many centuries are few in number, nowhere near enough to protect Pern in its hour of greatest peril. But Lessa comes up with a daring and dangerous plan, that is to rally people who ceased to exist long ago.
"Dragonflight" is the first book of the original trilogy, and is also a fix up of two novellas that were previously published in Analog. The story is a bit clunky, but is pretty good! Moments of action and some moments of romance, plus some tense ones too.
This one is going to be good series. Nothing that is exactly perfect in any sense, but still good. There are several other books in this series, but my focus is on the original trilogy. Still have to get the other two volumes of that original trilogy and see how it all progresses!
by i-the-muso-1968
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This reads like an ad.
“several other books in this series” is a massive understatement.
I probably read all the books in the series. There is a whole plot explaining why they lost the knowledge about dragons and why there were so few left. Which unfortunately changes it from the lesson of us forgetting things from the past. Then there is a prequel about how it all started back in the day.
With the Crystal Singers series you realise that her books are ultimately about how, no matter how technology progresses, there is something else that matters.
The Dragonriders series is one of my all time favorite sci-fi book series I’ve ever read. It’s truly magnificent but it doesn’t really set in just how well written these books are until you have read the original trilogy (and gets even better as you read the rest of the books in the Pern universe). Keep going! I would love to hear your thoughts after finishing the original trilogy.