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Red Star Rising - Anne McCaffrey

 
Description: ISBN 0552142727 / Author: Anne McCaffrey / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / The Second Chronicles of Pern. The inhabitants of Pern face a ... more
Red Star Rising - Anne McCaffrey ... titanic struggle for survival as violent storms and erupting volcanoes herald the coming of Thread, a deadly power which could destroy them all.

Newest Review: ... power in order to ensure the safety of his people and that of the rest of their world. PERN The land of Pern was colonised ... more

 ... by people from Earth some time in our planet?s future. They no longer have any contact with Earth and the technology they had is slowly breaking and becoming unusable. As a result their culture is a more primitiv e one than our own but is more community orientated with all working towards the common good rather than personal gain. The original settlers on the planet had to find a way to fight Thread. They genetically engineered drago...more

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Premium Review Red Star Rising - Anne McCaffrey: What a Star! (1123 words)
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We advise you to prepare your review offline, then to copy it to this space. This ensures that in the event of a connection time-out your contribution is not lost on posting.As a teenager I loved to read fantasy novels, to immerse myself in the complex and extraordinary alternate universes and escape from the mundane troubles of life. One of the series of books I enjoyed reading were the Chronicles of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. Anne McCaffrey?s world of Pern was inhabited by fantastic dragons: gold egg-laying queens, bronze, blue and green dragons. They were friendly dragons but brave and utterly removed from the boring realities of the real world. I ...  Read the complete review

 

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