Anne McCaffrey

Dragonsinger (Harper Hall of Pern #2)

The planet Pern has been colonized for centuries by humans. When humans first settled on this world, they did not take notice of its sister planet, which had an indigenous life form that attempted to land on Pern when it came within reach. These silver "threads" fell in a destructive wave on the temperate lands of Pern once every 200 years, destroying all life they encountered. To combat this menace, the inhabitants of Pern developed a species of dragon that could burn these threads out of the sky before they touched down. Now, centuries have passed between threadfalls, and the danger of thread is considered a myth. However, a dragon rider named F'lar knows that the riders are once again needed.

Dragonsinger

Tom Turner

** spoiler alert **
           When reading this book I think, for one main reason, it is important to understand when it was written. For there is one particular character, that of written today I would think would be written very differently. That's the character of Camo. Don't get me wrong, Camo is a very endearing and delightful character, but he is introduced to us by being described as a halfwit, and behaves in a very stereotypical way for times less enlightened about mental disabilities as we are today. So this fact kept jarring with me. But I have to be forgiving. Apart from that this was as warning and as delightful as Dragonsong. Though I can't say there is as much character development as I'm used to I'm modern literature, it's a wonderful capsule of another age of literature.

Dragonsinger (Harper Hall of Pern #2)

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