[bksvol-discuss] SUBMITTED: Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey with Intro by Anne McCaffrey
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:34:15 -0500
This is the latest Pern novel, and the first to be completely written by
someone other than Anne McCaffrey. It was written by her son, Todd.
It's been proof read and spell checked, and the headers have been stripped.
448 pages.
Gerald
Never in the dramatic history of Pern has there been a more dire emergency
than that which faces the young dragonrider Lorana. A mysterious fatal
illness is striking dragons. The epidemic is spreading like wildfire . . .
and the next deadly cycle of Threadfall is only days away. Somehow, Lorana
must find a cure before the dragons-including her own beloved Arith-succumb
to the sickness, leaving Pern undefended.
The lyrics of an all-but-forgotten song seem to point toward an answer, an
answer from nearly five hundred years in the past, when Kitti Ping and her
daughter Wind Blossom bred the first dragons from their smaller cousins, the
fire-lizards. No doubt the first Pern colonists possessed the advanced
technology to find the cure Lorana seeks, but over the centuries, that
knowledge has been lost. Or has it?
For in the distant past, an aged Wind Blossom worries that the germs that
affect the fire-lizards may one day turn against larger prey-and unleash a
plague that will destroy the dragons, Pern's only defenders against Thread.
But as her people struggle to survive, Wind Blossom has neither the time nor
the resources to expend on a future that may never arrive-until suddenly she
uncovers evidence that her worst fears will come true. Now two brave women,
separated by hundreds of years but joined by bonds transcending time, will
become unknowing allies in a desperate race against sickness and Threadfall,
with nothing less than the survival of all life on Pern at stake.
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