Dragonflight: (Dragonriders of Pern: 1): an awe-inspiring epic fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation (The Dragon Books, 1)

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Unfortunately I do not have my old paperbacks anymore, I gave them all away 25 years ago, when I moved. While discussing how they deal with Thread that lands, Masterweaver Zurg notes a tapestry he once saw at Ruatha Hold depicting people using flamethrowers.

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In 1983, Epyx released the video game Dragonriders of Pern for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 in which the player could battle Thread and engage in diplomacy on Pern. The women do all the cooking and act as servants to the men, the actual servants are faceless drudges (I always deeply disliked that term), the farmers are beholden to their lords and the droit-de-seigneur is alive and well. When she recovers, she tells them of the events in the Ninth Pass, convincing them when she describes the tapestry, which she learns has just been commissioned by Mardra's father, the Ruathan Lord Holder. Without spoiling the plot, the red-star threat isn’t really plausible, the dragons are too big and their method of covering distances, including their special conundrum causing method of travel, is firmly in the realm of fantasy not science fiction.The project began as an idea to include written music in the book of the same name, printed on the inner faces of the cover.

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I must admit the first volume kept me interested because of the world and I had to turn a blind eye to a small amount of awkwardness and even some rather dates relationship dynamics.This is the first of the series, and is the story of how Lessa became Weyrwoman of the dragons, and the story of how they fight the evil Threads. Leadership of these dragons and riders falls to Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon, who must earn the respect of all who follow her and solve the problem of how to get sufficient numbers of dragon eggs, all while protecting her people and baby dragons from the predators and, worse, traitors!

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It seems difficult to believe that Thread could perfectly survive the heat of entering Pern's atmosphere from space, then be incinerated by dragonfire.Lessa disbelieves him — noting that a Weyrwoman and her queen were not forbidden from flying in the historical Ballad of « Moreta's Ride». By the time the composers had written and auditioned the early drafts at the author's table it was clear that making the songs a reality to their creator's satisfaction was finally possible. As he leaves, they realise that this was a future F'nor, warning them about their plan before they'd even begun it. Very Good, light wear, former owner's stamp on paste down, light wear, in Good+ dust jacket, light wear.

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Each time I read a book, no matter what the book is, I find myself discovering new things, or remembering things that had slipped my mind in regards to the book. She stays in that condition until the alien ship she is in is captured by humans from the planet Lothar.Lytol arrives shortly afterwards with the tapestry mentioned by Zurg, and Lessa notices that Ruatha Hold's buildings are different from how they appear in the present day.