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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100836 in Books
• Published on: 1986-10-13
• Released on: 1986-10-13
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

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Dragonfire

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So thebold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flyingdragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed theshimmering strands before they reach the ground.

But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern,and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent... before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough tolaunch another suicide mission... and before those dratted fire-lizardscould stir up any more trouble!

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Cover art by Michael Whelan

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From the Publisher
There are dragons all over Anne McCaffrey's house. Some she's bought, but many have been made for her by adoring fans and given to her as gifts. I don't make dragons, of course. But whenever circumstances allow, I do try to bring her American bacon, something she can't get easily in Ireland, and something which she has taught all her friends there to love, as well! I remember the first time I went to visit her, when she was still living in her old, much smaller but very homey, house. My husband and I arrived at the doorstep, and she immediately began bustling about, frying up some of the bacon we'd brought and sharing a lovely late breakfast with us before sending us off to the hotel for a nap. She made us dinner that night, too--the one and only time in my life that I've actually liked shrimp cocktail. Maybe that's because if you squint your eyes and look sideways, shrimp are kind of dragonlike, and I was eating them in the right company!
--Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor

Download Description
Dragonfire

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So thebold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flyingdragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed theshimmering strands before they reach the ground.

But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern,and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent... before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough tolaunch another suicide mission... and before those dratted fire-lizardscould stir up any more trouble!

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Cover art by Michael Whelan

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Customer Reviews

A pleasant entertainment, lacking the wonder of the original
F'lar and his brother F'nor must save the planet Pern from unexpected falls of the deadly Thread in this sequel to McCaffrey's marvelous fantasy `Dragonflight'. Reading the earlier volume first is probably a good idea - it sets up the characters and the situation on Pern to an extent that this book does not. Lessa, the heroine of volume one, is still present, but no longer a crucial player in this story. Much of the emphasis is on the rivalries between Weirs (homes of the Dragonmen) and the Holds (enclaves). At the same time, tensions are rising among the Dragon Riders themselves between the ultra-conservative Old-Timers (who were brought forward through time from the distant past in Volume 1) and their more modern and forward-thinking counterparts led by F'lar. A lot of pages were devoted to topics that didn't really go anywhere (the fire lizards, for example) but will likely be addressed further on in the series. This was a pleasant-enough entertainment, but didn't possess anything like the wonder and majesty of the original.

Typical Anne McCaffrey - Great!
This is the 2nd novel of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.
It is written so that it can be read not only in the series, but also stand alone.

Our local library classifies these novels as "Science Fiction" and/or "Fantasy". I classify them as "Great Reading". Anne McCaffrey is one of the best authors I have read. Her other works are very good also.

If you want to start with the first in the series, read "Dragonflight".
After that "Dragonquest". Then "The White Dragon".

Get all three! They may even have them as a set.

After that - you'll be back to find out what else she has written.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Dragonquest
Explains how dragons and their riders managed to combat thread and what happened when thread ended.