Dragonsdawn

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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: A must read for dragon fanatics... combining the magic of dragons with science. This is where it all began, and particularly good for someone who started with other books in the series. If you've read the others, pay attention when you read this, and you'll pick up on some good puns...!

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Summary: AWESOME BOOK
Review: This is an awesome, awesome book. It was my first Anne McCaffrey book ever, after buying All the Weyrs of Pern, and realizing that this was not anywhere near the first Pern book. I finished it in about a day and a half. I'm only 11. I also finished the White Dragon, and Dragonflight in that same week! This book is about how the first Pern colonists came and settled on Pern, and how Sorka Hanrahan and Sean Connell find the first fire-lizard/dragonets, which help them battle against the deadly silver Thread. They are developed into Thread-scorching dragons, which are to become the most important creatures in Pernese history.

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Summary: I can see clearly now the history's here
Review: Benden Weyr - Admiral Benden, Telgar hold - Telgar (in memory of Sallah). This opens my eyes and is thoroughly brilliant, I reckon that some of the above reveiws have small minds and even smaller imaginations. I believe this to be among her best work, it is fast and exciting allong with the real threat of thread. It is a lengthey version of the history bit they give you at the beginning of the other books. It shows you how they made the dragons and how one woman's genious saved an entire colony. I love this book and the Chronicles, the best Sci-fi/Fantasy books concerning dragons written ever.

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Summary: Dragonriders Alert!! Must read this book!!!!
Review: This book is a must read for anyone who's read the dragonriders of Pern books. Fills in a lot of the gaps and tells us how the first Pernese engineered a whole species. Gives some of us hope for the future of humankind

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Summary: Great really cool book!!!
Review: This book was really great! I'm not very familiar w/ the Anne McCaffrey series. I read "The White Dragon" then this one. I'm definetly going to buy the rest of the series. I recommend this book to anyone, especially Pern lovers!

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Summary: IT FILLED IN THE GAPS FOR ME
Review: This book gives a detailed account of the very beginning of the people of Pern.It cleared up a lot of misconceptions I had about Pern.I always thought it was some kind of meidevil fantay land when really it was a bunch of colonists out looking for a new start in life and they abviously found it.I would have never thought that the pernese were descendants of a hightech/industrious anscestry.I think that is way cool.Well after you get through all the technological mumbo jumbo it/s actually really good.I'd tell you more but I won't spoil the surprises for you.

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Summary: One of the best Pern books out there!
Review: I absolutely loved this "historical" Pern novel chronicling the fist settelers of Pern and their lives up to the move to Fort in the Northern Continent. I thoroughly enjoyed learnign about the individual people and their activities. I was finally able to understand the naming of the holds in the north, as well as certain happenings hinted at in All the Weyrs of Pern. Despite all this, I do wish Anne McCaffrey would have enlarged upon some of the more obscure refrences in this book, such as giving an explanation for why the probes sent to the red planet all blew up, or whether there really was a second cycle to thread that fell to the ground and didn't die. Little things like that weren't totally explained to my satisfaction, but they can be excused in teh face of what a great work this novel is over-all.

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Summary: Whoa! wow! incredible creation! Congrats to McCaffrey!
Review: Wow, this mentasynth theory of hers is so believable that I found myself pondering why its not a reality! Another pat on the back should go to McCaffrey for this book!

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Summary: One of the best
Review: I read just about all of the Pern books. This was a must for Anne Mccaffery to write. It explains so much about the way Dragons came about and how all the Wyers and holds were named. I plane to read it again.

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Summary: Your collection is NOT complete without this book!
Review: I'll tell you now, I'll probably have to get a new copy of this book because I've read it so many times the cover is falling off! It is a must have for all true McCaffrey and Pern fans! If you don't have it as part of your collection please GET IT! You don't know what your missing!