First Fall -- Anne McCaffrey, Paperback

Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-ever Dragonriders of Pern short-story collection

Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide to recommend it for colonization. Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as a flotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves the dreadful currents of the Pernest ocean. Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill with the dragonriders as they expand into a second, then a third Weyr. And discover a secret lost in time: the rescue of some of the original colonists before the planet was cut off forever

Building a new life on a distant world, braving the dreaded Thread that falls like silver rain from the sky only to destroy every living thing it touches, flying heroically on the wondrous dragons: The Dragonriders of Pern

Author: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 08/29/1994
Pages: 319
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 6.94h x 4.20w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780345368997

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 59258 / Chronicles of Pern: First Fall

About the Author
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world's most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and 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.