The Skies Of Pern (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) info
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. With the planet of Pern no longer threatened by Threadfall, its inhabitants are free build new lives for themselves with the help of recently discovered ancient technology, until a terrifying new peril from the sky endangers the planet.Anne McCaffrey's Pern series has been running successfully for so long that most of the Dragonriders' original problems have been solved. In The Skies of Pern, she confronts her standard cast of characters with the consequences of those solutions, consequences that are a whole new set of problems. Now that the Red Star has been pushed to another orbit, there will only be a few more ravenous Threads descending from it for them and their dragons to fight--and what role will that leave for them? They have successfully reclaimed Earth's lost technology--and suddenly everyone with a craft that might be outmoded, or who is phobic about surgery, is on the rampage, sabotaging and smashing and making up rumors. These fundame