Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-everDragonriders of Pern short-story collection!Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide torecommend it for colonization.
Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as aflotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves thedreadful currents of the Pernese ocean.
Learn how the famous Ruatha Hold was founded, and thrill with thedragonriders as they expand into a second, then a third Weyr.And discover a secret lost time: the rescue of some of the originalcolonists before the planet was cut off forever!
Building a new life on a distant world, braving the dreaded Thread thatfalls like silver rain from the sky only to destroy every living thingit touches, flying heroically on the wondrous dragons: TheDragonriders of Pern!
