He doesn't get ready for the imminent fall and thus puts his own people in jeopardy.

They go into how he treats his guests as well as his own holders. A lot of the story is around this despicable and cruel man. One of those that doesn't believe thread fall will return is a cruel Lord Holder. With so much time it is understandable that some begin to question if thread will ever fall again. That is a lot of time in between each fall of thread. This story begins 250 years after the first fall. So while the dragonriders desperately train to face an enemy they've never fought before, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin and protect Bitra.Īnother fantastic book from the Dragonriders of Pern series. Impossibly, one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe - and that disbelief could spell disaster for all of Pern. All but one.Įven now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. And most of the Lord Holders are prepared to protect their people, to provide sanctuary, to assemble groundcrews to search out and destroy any Thread that might be missed by the dragons soaring overhead.

Only the dragons, originally created to be a weapon against Thread, are still around to remind people that once before their population was decimated, their hopes and dreams and livelihoods almost destroyed forever.įor two centuries the dragonriders have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the Threadfighting techniques learned on the fly by their besieged ancestors. There's no sign of it anywhere in the world. No one alive remembers that first onslaught. Who could believe that such a horrible thing could exist? After all, it's been 200 years since Thread supposedly fell on Pern. Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path - animals, plants, and people alike.

Dragonseye by Anne McCaffrey