Dragonflight
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. 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. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .From the Paperback edition.
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On the long-colonized world of Pern, a young woman named Lessa is the last of her line and unexpectedly impresses a queen dragon. The planet's old enemy, Thread, has not fallen in centuries. It is about to.
Anne McCaffrey wrote more than 20 novels in the Dragonriders of Pern series before her death in 2011. Her son Todd McCaffrey has continued the series with additional novels. Dragonflight (1968) is the first.
Two reading orders are popular. Publication order starts with Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. Chronological order starts with the prequel Dragonsdawn. Most new readers begin with publication order.
Dragonflight was written by Anne McCaffrey, published in 1968 by Del Rey.
Dragonflight is 309 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Dragonflight takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Dragonflight is a standalone novel by Anne McCaffrey, not part of a series.
Dragonflight is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
