When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.

Menolly flees her home, because she is not permitted to make music there, and is taken by the Masterharper himself to Harpershall, where she learns that only her own self-doubt stands in her way.

A young woman faced with the prospect of losing her musical career travels to a mining planet, where the mining of crystal requires musical talent but causes irreversible physiological changes.

The homeworld Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari -- the unicorn girl's gentle, spiritual race -- live on. Now is the time for healing and rebuilding, for restoring the natural beauty corrupted by the savage insectile oppressors. But Acorna's Linyaari friends and colleagues begin mysteriously disappearing soon after work gets under way, among them her beloved Aari. And her...

Acorna the unicorn girl, triumphant over a wealth of enemies, looks forward to rebuilding her home world with her newly returned lifemate Aari, but something seems very wrong with Aari's behavior, and other complications arise with a vicious criminal on the loose, and a renewed attack by the alien Khleevi.

Collection of short stories dealing with the early days of the colonization of Pern. Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection.

McCaffrey has joined forces with her son, Todd, to produce another entry in the Pern series. The action here centers on Camp Natalon, the site of a coal mine. where some of the miners rely on the expertise of the watch-whers dragons, to help keep them safe in the mines. As Kindan, blind Nuella and master harper Zist puzzle out the lore, habits and abilities of these nocturnal creatures, they find out more about the watch-whers (and themselves) than...

On the planet of Pern, a small white dragon and his rider prove their value as destroyers of Threadfire.

A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.