Sky Dragons, 9780345500922
Paperback
Plague-ridden Pern’s last hope: new dragonriders, time travel, perilous dangers.

Sky Dragons

Dragonriders of Pern

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2013

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Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Scores of dragons are dead after plague swept across the world of Pern, and now the Weyrs are struggling to rebuild before Threadfall destroys everything—and everyone—left alive. Their best hope lies with a group of new dragonriders who have volunteered to brave the dangers of an unexplored island populated by vicious wild felines and voracious tunnel-snakes to create a safe home for their young dragons, whose offspring will hopefully repleni…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780345500922
ISBN-10:034550092X
Author:Anne McCaffrey, Todd J. McCaffrey
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Del Rey Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:28 May 2013
Weight:215g
Dimensions:169mm x 106mm x 26mm
Series:Dragonriders of Pern
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Critics Review

PRAISE FOR ANNE McCAFFREY AND TODD McCAFFREY

PRAISE FOR ANNE McCAFFREY AND TODD McCAFFREY Dragon’s Time “SF grand master McCaffrey and her son Todd combine their prodigious storytelling talents to craft a complex tale of desperation and sacrifice, love and loss.”—Library Journal (starred review) Dragon’s Fire “These fabled dragons still cast a spell.”—Publishers Weekly Dragon Harper “Captivating … The McCaffreys are well known for their brilliant characterizations, and they do not disappoint here.”—Booklist

About The Author

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the top two prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and the Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Pern novels Dragonsblood, Dragonheart, and Dragongirl, and the co-author, with his mother, Anne McCaffrey, of Dragon’s Time, Dragon’s Kin, Dragon’s Fire, and Dragon Harper. A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern,® he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.

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