So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Ol Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again.
But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Original Title. Lessa , F'lar , F'nor , Brekke. Edwards Award Other Editions 3.
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Start your review of Dragonquest Pern, 2. Jul 25, Judah Nielsen rated it it was ok Shelves: fluff , sf-f , 2-star , So, this is the second book of a trilogy, and then there's another trilogy, and then some other books, and when you've tallied it all up, you have something like 27 books in the series. And I've read the first two, but unless I get pneumonia and my reading time suddenly quadruples, I'm probably done, and I feel strange about it, because when all is said and done, I don't hate these books.
The setting is imaginative. The stories move along at a good pace. The stories are interesting. If that was a So, this is the second book of a trilogy, and then there's another trilogy, and then some other books, and when you've tallied it all up, you have something like 27 books in the series. If that was all their was to a book, this would be a pretty decent read.
But it isn't. The characters are garbage. They're cardboard. The heroes never make any mistakes, but they also never do anything interesting. If anything they do is surprising, it isn't genuinely surprising, it just wasn't foreshadowed. The writing, the style? Also largely nonsense. When I got to the end of the book, and I found myself wondering what happened in the next one, I had a flash of inspiration: I would much rather read the plot summary than the actual plot. What I like about this series is the hierarchy, the relationships between people, the structure of the world, and how the events in the story impact that society.
But since I don't like or care about any of the individual people, it's more than enough to just read what happened next, in bullet points or on a timeline. So fuck it. View all 8 comments. Oct 27, Cathy rated it it was amazing Shelves: favouritesstars. My first re-read since being a young adult. I went into Dragonquest with slight apprehension.
I never much liked the drama with the Oldtimers and Kylara always grated. But we also get fire-lizards! Love them! Want one! My memory had placed them securely with Menolly and the Harperhall trilogy The language feels a little dated sometimes, however that feeling disappeared as I delved deeper into the story.
The gender roles are My first re-read since being a young adult. The gender roles are old-fashioned. But I think that is largely on purpose and there are some indications that it could or should be different. There are some hints at non-normative pairings, because what do you do when you ride a green dragon, right? Characters in general are not explored much emotionally. Writing sex scenes is not something that McCaffrey did well, even for the non-graphic variety.
The dragons feel more real to me than they appeared to be in my memory, with more pronounced personalities and intelligence. In this one they find some more ancient tech. As a teenager I found that confusing.
And now I find it surprising that they just grab any old tech they find and use it. As if it was perfectly normal to live in a quasi feudal, medieval society, find a microscope or a telescope, figure out how works and just use it. How can they be at the level they are and then back-engineer electrical wiring, etc.?
Anyway, I ended up enjoying this book very much, more than Dragonflight. Onwards to The White Dragon! Again, this book teaches that the way to a woman's heart is through dubious consent.
This time it's just F'nor being a dick; horny telepathic dragons had nothing to do with it. Apparently our hero sees nothing wrong with having sex with a woman who is "fighting him. Her dragon wouldn't permit it but a sound thrashing was what Kylara badly needed. No Fantasy. No one likes Kylara because McCaffrey didn't want us to like her. The woman is extremely unsympathetic. But oh my god that does not make it okay for the hero to want to beat her.
Despite Anne McCaffrey's issues, which I knew about going into this, I like this world enough to keep reading until she really pisses me off. In this book she addresses the tension between the modern and the old weyrs.
They have different ways of managing their societies and of course those ways clash so there's some political maneuvering and palace intrigue type stuff while F'lar tries to rule all of Pern. Three stars. I liked this one for the science, the problem-solving, and the fire lizards.
The plot's pretty engaging too, when it isn't broken up by pointless rambling. View 2 comments. Jul 22, Jerry rated it really liked it. In my review of Dragonflight , I compared that starter Pern novel to a series premiere of a television show; although it was a bit rough around the edges, it showed some signs of promise. Dragonquest , although still not perfect, was an improvement over its prequel.
The story was just as good, and the writing was better. Now, I just hope that the upswing continues throughout the rest of the Pern series, as long as it is. Oct 28, Justine rated it really liked it Shelves: read. I'm not sure why I never read these as a teenager, but I sure am enjoying them now. The writing has an unselfconscious quaintness and ease that is quite endearing. The story easily positions itself as a kind of science fantasy hybrid without even trying to align wholly on one end or the other of the speculative fiction spectrum.
The characters are all much more fleshed out than they were in Dragonflight , and the story has a smoother and well paced progression. I am enjoying the mix of politics a I'm not sure why I never read these as a teenager, but I sure am enjoying them now. I am enjoying the mix of politics and action that arises with conflict between Craft, Holder, and Weyr; and the extent to which they put aside or don't their differences in the effort to fight the shared threat of Thread.
The tension between the Oldtimer riders and Benden Weyr is actually quite frustrating, but at the same time, has the unfortunate ring of truth. The individual characters are a realistic mix of likeable to horrible, with varying degrees of competence arrayed among them.
I never tired of reading about whoever the story followed at any given time. The dragons are amazing, but I wish we actually had a dragon POV as they are such interesting creatures. The fire-lizards seem like they are even more than they appear, and I hope to see more of them!
View all 10 comments. I am able to just immerse myself into this world. I can feel like I belong there. The characters are fantastically written and I feel myself becoming attached to them.
There are also some that I just despise. I love this world that McCaffrey created. I love the history of it, but these books that I am reading now are at the heart of the world and what I loved about Pern. This has been such a great reread. I am thoroughly enjoying reliving all of these events that were so long forgotte Fantastic.
I am thoroughly enjoying reliving all of these events that were so long forgotten. So much goes on that it is hard to summarize. It is definitely not boring. There is always something happening. There is love and tragedy and perseverance. Great series to read. Oct 09, Mike the Paladin rated it really liked it Shelves: science-fiction , fantasy. Well, we found out dragons can travel in time as well as space, and people from the past don't get along well with people in the present The ongoing saga of a distant future offworld colony where society and technology have regressed to feudal times yet men and a few women ride genetically engineered, teleporting, time-traveling, telepathic dragons in order to protect their homelands from the menacing threat of destructive intergalactic, uh, thread.
The writing is an improvement over the first installment which was an uneven mashup of two novellas, although the story this time is really just an episodic continuation of the firs The ongoing saga of a distant future offworld colony where society and technology have regressed to feudal times yet men and a few women ride genetically engineered, teleporting, time-traveling, telepathic dragons in order to protect their homelands from the menacing threat of destructive intergalactic, uh, thread.
The writing is an improvement over the first installment which was an uneven mashup of two novellas, although the story this time is really just an episodic continuation of the first book with a focus on clarifying aspects of the society and culture and expanding the world of Pern rather than on boring, unimportant things like character arcs or plot.
Published almost 50 years ago, the book certainly shows its age with women in traditional and subservient roles for the most part, cooking and cleaning and waiting around for a man to take interest in them, although consent doesn't necessarily play a big part in relationships apparently. And although some of the action moments can be gloriously fun, it's mystifying why the majority of the book focuses instead on romantic swooning and political bickering.
I've always liked this book in the Pern series, probably more than I like Dragonflight. I really like F'nor and Brekke and the introduction of the fire lizards.
I love those cross-over books that feel like fantasy but you discover have a solid, SF premise underneath. I absorbed the Pern books so long ago in my I've always liked this book in the Pern series, probably more than I like Dragonflight.
I absorbed the Pern books so long ago in my reading life they were some of my first SFF, loaned to me by one of my father's PhD students; she was my book provider for a long time in my teens that I don't think I've ever really watched the progress of the story McCaffrey unfolded. I remember I got a delightful surprise with The White Dragon and later Dragonsdawn as we really began to discover the Ancients oh, how I loved Dragonsdawn when it came out.
Looking back now, with much older eyes, and reading the books in sequence, I can see that McCaffrey must have had the basic idea for the Ninth and First Passes from the beginning. The first setup came in Dragonflight , but that book was too full of world building, character introduction and the beginning of Threadfall for much to be done with it.
Here, it starts in earnest. I ate it up way back then, and I admit, I'm eating it up all over again. This book was originally published in and it mostly holds up.
But, ouch, there are a few misogynistic moments that made me cringe. This was a matter for men to settle, F'lar thinks at one point, although at least he'd been thinking Lessa might be helpful the moment before. Later, someone F'lar again I think but my quote doesn't include who was thinking it reflects It was too bad you couldn't beat a Weyrwoman with impunity. Her dragon wouldn't permit it, but a sound thrashing was what Kylara badly needed. And the Oldtimers themselves do not like the Pern in which they are now living.
Four hundred Turns brought too many subtle changes, and dissensions mount. He frowned thoughtfully down at the smoothed, moist sand in the shallow trays of his workdesk. His long face settled into deep-grooved lines and creases, and his eyes, usually snapping blue with inner amusement, were gray-shadowed with unusual gravity.
Because of recent reports of unrest from his network of drummers and Harper journeymen, Robinton had decided to remind the guests on this auspicious occasion—for every Lord Holder and Craftmaster would be invited—of the debt they owed the dragonmen of Pern. As the subject of his ballad, he had decided to tell of the fantastic ride, between time itself, of Lessa, Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr on her great golden queen, Ramoth.
The Lords and Craftsmen of Pern had been glad enough then for the arrival of dragonriders from the five ancient Weyrs from four hundred Turns in the past. Yet how to reduce those fascinating, frantic days, those braveries, to a rhyme? It had not been just a sudden resurgence of forgotten loyalties that had prompted the Lords, but the all too real sense of disaster as they envisioned their prosperous acres blackened with the Thread they had dismissed as myth, of the thought of burrows of the lightning propagating parasites, of themselves walled up in the cliff-Holds behind thick metal doors and shutters.
And it was Lessa who had bought them that protection, almost with her life. Robinton looked up from the sandtrays, his expression suddenly bleak. There was one watchman on the fire ridges. There ought to be six, but it was planting time; Lord Holder Groghe of Fort Hold had everyone who could walk upright in the fields, even the gangs of children who were supposed to weed spring grass from stone interstices and pull moss from the walls. Last spring, Lord Groghe would not have neglected that duty no matter how many dragonlengths of land he wanted to put under seed.
Lord Groghe was undoubtedly out in the fields right now, prowling from one tract of land to another on one of those long-legged running beasts which the Masterherdsman Sograny was developing. Groghe of Fort Hold was indefatigable, his slightly protuberant blue eyes never missing an unpruned tree or a badly harrowed row. He was a burly man, with grizzled hair which he wore tied in a neat band. His complexion was florid, with a temper to match.
But, if he pushed his holders, he pushed himself as well, demanding nothing of his people, his children nor his fosterlings that he was not able to do himself. If he was conservative in his thinking, it was because he knew his own limitations and felt secure in that knowledge.
Robinton pulled at his lower lip, wondering if Lord Groghe was an exception in his disregard for this traditional Hold duty of removing all greenery near habitations. Yet Lord Groghe had been scrupulous in the matter of ground crews and flame-throwing equipment when Thread fell over his forests.
He had a stable of runners spread out through the Hold in an efficient network so that if dragonriders were competent in flight, there was adequate ground coverage for any Thread that might elude the flaming breath of the airborne beasts.
But Robinton had heard ugly rumors of late, and not just from Fort Hold. Since he eventually heard every derogatory whisper and accusation uttered in Pern, he had learned to separate fact from spite, calumny from crime. And if his suspicions were valid, what could he do? Write a scolding song? A satire? Robinton snorted. Lord Groghe was too literal a man to interpret satire and too righteous to take a scold.
Furthermore, and Robinton pushed himself upright on his elbows, if Lord Groghe was neglectful, it was in protest at Weyr neglect of far greater magnitude. Some of the techniques listed in Dragonquest may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url.
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