All resources, every man, woman and child had to fight the terrible nightmare of Thread.īut a new creature was about to save the planet.įrom the delicate fire lizards a new life was born - a new symbiosis between man and beast. Many died - a horrible and consuming death. The strange, unidentifiable circles in the grass suddenly revealed a meaning, and every living thing was at risk. It was a jewel of a planet, with rivers and seas and mountains, and breathable air and growing things. In the beginning, before Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ships gliding through space with nearly six thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty task of beginning a new world on a strange planet.
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