The author takes you back to the earliest days of Pernese history where you join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization.
Jaxom, a rebellious youth, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.
The dragonriders of Pern have dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, spores that rained on and ravaged the land, and now they finally have the chance to eradicate it forever.
A beautiful woman with psychic talents combines her abilities with the psychic man she loves to become the most powerful team in all the inhabited worlds.
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
Some people on Pern stayed in Holds, protected from Thread. Others had lost their holds through injustice, but some were criminals & the disaffected. From this group rose a band known as Renagades.
