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Lessa, the last of the bloodline of Ruatha, disguises herself as a kitchen drudge, biding her time until she can reclaim her birthright, but her plans are changed when she is pressed into service as Weyr woman to the new dragon queen and charged with helping rebuild the dragon force in time to combat an attack of the deadly Thread.

'I must find my own kind!' Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her 'funny' feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her 'Uncle' Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected,...

A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.

The world of Petaybee, a sentient planet, is being protected by humans fighting to keep it from an all-powerful interstellar corporation determined to exploit the planet's natural resources. Unfortunately, that protection does not extend to its inhabitants. When a visiting scientist learns of the shape shifting ability of the Shongili twins, they're in danger of being kidnapped, or worse. So, they're sent away just as their world is undergoing its...

McCaffrey has joined forces with her son, Todd, to produce another entry in the Pern series. The action here centers on Camp Natalon, the site of a coal mine. where some of the miners rely on the expertise of the watch-whers dragons, to help keep them safe in the mines. As Kindan, blind Nuella and master harper Zist puzzle out the lore, habits and abilities of these nocturnal creatures, they find out more about the watch-whers (and themselves) than...

Kidnappers attempt to trade four humans for the mystical planet of Petaybee, not realizing they will have to negotiate with a talking hunk of rock.

Telepathic twins Murel and Ronan must persuade survivors of a meteor shower to leave their world and journey to a new settlement formed by the planet Petaybee; however, they refuse to leave without their sacred animals including the predatory Manos sharks.

While on a test flight in a new craft, spaceship designer Nimisha Rondymense is sucked into a wormhole. She emerges light years away in another part of space and meets other victims of the hole. They are people from various civilizations and together they set about building a new civilization of their own. By the author of Freedom's Challenge.

Apprentice dragon rider Kindan, along with Nonala and Kelsa, tries to stop the spread of a deadly contagion and win the approval Lord Bemin, the father of his true love, Koriana.