title: The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: This came from a collection of Sci-Fi books, all carefully preserved and none had any evidence of having been read. Great gift for a Sci-Fi collector. Jacket illustration by Ron Dilg."The first humans to settle on Pern barely noticed a distant planet in the same system; their descendants couldn't afford such an oversight. For the orbit of that Red Star swept it close to Pern at perihelion - and when that happened, deadly silver Threads would fall through the skies of Pern, mindlessly searing all they touched. To combat these invasions, the Pernese bred huge, sensitive flying beast that could teleport..."
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  Dragonheart
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Todd McCaffrey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  FOR READERS NEW TO PERN
  
  
  
  
  
  Thousands of years after man first developed interstellar travel, colonists
  from Earth, Tau Ceti III, and many other worlds settled upon Pern, the third
  planet of the star Rukbat in the Sagittarius sector.
  
  
  They found Pern idyllic for their purposes: a pastoral world far off the
  standard trade routes and perfect for those recovering from the horrors of the
  Nathi Wars.
  
  
  Led by hero Admiral Paul Benden and Governor Emily Boll of war-torn Tau Ceti,
  the colonists quickly abandoned their advanced technology in favor of a
  simpler life. For eight years—“Turns” as they called them on Pern—the settlers
  spread and multiplied on Pern’s lush Southern Continent, unaware that a menace
  was fast approaching: the Red Star.
  
  
  The Red Star was actually a wandering planetoid that had been captured by
  Rukbat millennia before. It had a highly elliptical, cometary orbit, passing
  through the fringes of the system