The Chronicles of Pern
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Five fascinating scenes from Anne McCaffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
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Five fascinating scenes from Anne McCaffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
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Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this.'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' -- THE TIMES
'Mesmerising and totally unputdownable' -- ***** Reader review
'Staggeringly good' -- ***** Reader review
'Another story of Pern I simply couldn't put down' -- ***** Reader review
'Just brilliant!!!' -- ***** Reader review
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Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern -- from the very first space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space.
Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins.
Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold -- a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.
And here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr...
Autoren-Porträt von Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the 'Garden of Ireland', County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series. Her website is www.pernhome.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anne McCaffrey
- 1994, 288 Seiten, Maße: 10,6 x 2,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Corgi
- ISBN-10: 0552139130
- ISBN-13: 9780552139137
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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