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 Dragon's Fire - Anne McCaffrey
Newest Review: ... the planet was colonised. This means that the Pernese society is well-formed and largely as we know it, but the inhabitants ... more  ... still retain most of the knowledge - if not the technology - of their beginnings on the planet.
The focus of the novel is new (apart from the concurrent Dragon's Kin), centred around the Shunned - people who have been cast out of their Hold societies for laziness or misdeeds, forced to try and scrape a life in the wild. It really doesn't seem to be a good solution, to me: outcast, they often have little choice but to resort to criminal activity to survive, becoming yet more of a problem. And it is desperately unfair ...more |
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Dragon's Fire - Anne McCaffrey: A bit of a damp squib (1302 words)
by - written on 29/11/08 (Very useful, 153 readings)
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There's something about winter's approach that makes me seek that extra comfort factor. Stodgy comfort food, of course! A favourite 'comfort movie' when you're feeling cold or poorly, snuggled up on the sofa. And I wholly recommend comfort reading - when you want an excuse to spend extra time under the duvet, or giving your brain a rest from more taxing pursuits. For me, Anne McCaffrey's Chronicles of Pern novels are perfect comfort reading. Not exactly young reader, but not demanding; flights of sheer fantasy to another world - perfect! The story of Pern is one of planet colonisation gone wrong - the idyllic world turns out to be attacked by plant- and ... Read the complete review
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