title: 5 Books By Anne Mccaffrey: Dragon Flight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon, Dragonsinger & Nerilka's Story (The Dragonriders of Pern)
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: 5 Books By Anne Mccaffrey: Dragon Flight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon, Dragonsinger & Nerilka's Story McCaffrey's best-known works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. After colonists from Earth make a decades-long journey to a new planet (which they name 'Pern'), a volcanic eruption and an extra-planetary threat called Thread force the original colonists to retreat into caves in the northern hemisphere of the planet, abandoning most of their advanced technology in the process. Adopting an agrarian lifestyle, the survivors of the original expedition create genetically-engineered 'dragons' from a native species of reptiles, and use them to fight back the encroaching thread.
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  "Not since St. George set off on his quest has 
  there been such a flap over dragons." 
  -People Magazine 
  "Anne McCaffrey, with her dragons, says some-
  thing very valuable about the interplay of humans 
  and the world around them." 
  -Marion Zimmer Bradley 
  "Few are better at mixing elements of high fan-
  tasy and hard science fiction in a narrative that 
  disarms skepticism by its open embrace of the 
  joys of wish fulfillment." 
  -The New York Times Book Review 
  Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which 
  fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books 
  for many years have been national bestsellers. She 
  is one of the most popular writers ever in fantasy 
  and science fiction. 
  THE GIRL WHO HEARD DRAGONS is a 
  feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers, a 
  big, satisfying compilation of her fiction never be-
  fore collected in a McCaffrey book. Best of all, it 
  opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The 
  Girl Who Heard