Dragon's Fire - (Dragonriders of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey & Todd J McCaffrey (Paperback)

About the Book

This latest entry in the Dragonriders of Pern series introduces Pellar, an orphan taken in by Masterharper Zist. Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off to take over as harper for Natalon's coal-mining camp, Pellar and his fire-lizard Chitter, join Zist on a secret mission of his own.

Book Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A richly detailed story on a par with the rest of the Pern canon . . . another successful McCaffrey mother-and-son collaboration."--Booklist

At Natalon's mining camp, Pellar embarks on a secret mission to discover whether the condemned criminals known as the Shunned are stealing coal. But the gifted tracker discovers that a far more treacherous plot is unfolding. A heartless thief named Tenim has realized there is profit to be made from firestone, the volatile mineral that enables the dragons of Pern to burn the lethal Thread out of the sky. When the last remaining firestone mine explodes, a desperate race begins to find a new deposit of the deadly but essential mineral. Sure enough, Tenim has a murderous plan to turn tragedy to his own advantage. Now Pellar and his new friends--the kind and gentle Halla, a child of the Shunned, and Cristov, the son of a corrupt miner--must stop Tenim. If they fail, it will mean the end for Pern and its dragonriders.

"Grittier than the early parts of the series; Todd's apparently brought a wider, more current worldview to Pern."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"These fabled dragons still cast a spell."--Publishers Weekly

Review Quotes

Praise for Dragon's Kin by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey

"Superb storytelling . . . Essential for Pern fans of all ages."
-Library Journal (starred review)

"A guaranteed pleaser [in] one of sf's most splendid and longest-lived sagas."
-Booklist

Praise for Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey

"Todd McCaffrey does something I didn't think anyone could do: he writes Anne McCaffrey's Pern. . . . May the saga continue!"
-David Weber, author of The Shadow of Saganami

"The torch has been passed and burns more brightly than ever. . . . [Dragonsblood] fits beautifully into the existing history and style of earlier books while still breaking new ground."
-Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world's most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Pern novel Dragonsblood, as well as Dragon's Kin, which he co-wrote with his mother, Anne McCaffrey. A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.