Dragonsdawn - Anne McCaffrey

Colonists from the Federated Sentient Planets set out on a 15 year journey to the planet Pern, to establish a new home in a remote corner of the galaxy. This immediately throws up common themes from the science fiction genre - the main one being that in the future, we will set aside our petty conflicts and colonize our galaxy. A very pretty idea, which I've no doubt we'd all like to believe in after years of being jaded by various wars that have sprung up across Earth. In this 9th novel in the Dragon series by McCaffrey, we get an explanation of how and why colonists set out for Pern and, also, how the fantastic dragons were created. This seems rather ...