Anne McCaffrey is one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Born and raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she now lives permanently in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains, where, as well as writing, she breeds horses. She has recently been awarded the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern series, currently being filmed for TV.
The latest installment in McCaffrey's legendary dragon series sees a time of change on Pern. Could Threadfall be a thing of the past? Can the Abominators be stopped before they destroy the records of the Old Ones? A Science-Fiction feast that will keep your dragon desires at bay until the screening of the TV film. (Kirkus UK)