Dragonsdawn

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Summary: #1 Dragon book
Review: If you want to find out how the Dragons made? Here's the book with all the answers! Discover the 1st Weyrleader and Werywoman. You'll love this book from the very 1st sentance.

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Summary: WOW!
Review: I loved this book! Great to see how things were at Landing and First Fall. I love the way Anne portrays Sorka and Sean. BUY THIS BOOK! It is very worthwile even if you are not a big fan of fantasy and Sci-Fi.

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Summary: An absolut treat for any sci-fi fan!
Review: Dragonsdawn is possibly my favorite of the Dragon riders series. It shows how fantasy can be created without resorting to sorcery. It is also a historical novel in the finest sense. For anyone who has become familiar with lives of the characters and the world of PERN, the novel offer the fascinating glimpe into the personalities that set the stage for the novels we all love. It's great stuff and a must read.

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Summary: Excellent reading if you want everything explaining.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dragonsdawn, the characters were warm and inviting, and you felt as though you knew them by the end. I have read all of the Dragonriders books and this rates up there with the best, although I think for us die hard fans, it may be a case of reading anything which says Pern in the first paragraph, even if it were on the back of the cornflakes. Some fans may find it annoying having everything explained and if you want to leave things to the imagination , then don't read it, because it shatters a lot of illusions of the medievel land we were first introduced to in Dragonflight, which was where it all began 38 years ago. But, at the end of the day, its 100 times better than Renegades, which was dire. But is not up there with the White Dragon, which was 10 stars, or All the Weyrs of Pern. Happy reading

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Summary: So this is who engineered the dragons and defenses:
Review: It's amazing to go back in the history of Pern and really see what it was like, at Landing and during the First Fall. I love the way you can follow the growing up of the first Weyrleaders as you watch the colony develop. I particularly loved Poll and Bay, the biologists. Definitely a must for all McCaffrey fans, and a great book to start on if you've only heard of this marvelous author. Anne, don't stop wrting "historical novels"!

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Summary: Check it out!
Review: I've wanted to read about the dragons of Pern for a long time, and got a book listing of chronological order of Pern. So I began with Dragonsdawn, and fully intend to read the rest of them. Anne McCaffrey rules! I collect dragons and have named one of them McCaffrey after her. If you have a love of dragons, or an affinity with a story that draws you in and makes you feel that you're part of the whole experience, then this is a book for you. Thank you, Anne!!

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Summary: What's all the fuss about, anyway?
Review: I saw the Dragonriders of Pern series in the SF and Fantasy Top 100 list, and since the book was both SF and fantasy, my two favorite genres, I snapped it up when I saw the book in the bookstore.(Enlish titles are hard to come by here, anyway.)And then I read it. And then I realized that not all books are good merely for being science fiction or fantasy, or even science fiction and fantasy at the same time. The whole book is about how resourceful, loving, and noble Sean and Sorka are, what an (unbelievably) evil slut Bitra is, what great leaders Benden and Boll are, and so on. The author's obsession with detail, which would have been pleasing in many other books, make reading this book laborious work. Phew! The other Pern book at the bookstore, Dragonquest or whatever, is about the same. What are all these people, reincarnations or something? First novel where I counted the remaining pages while I read.

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Summary: Her worst book (and I'll tell you why)
Review: This was McCaffrey's worst book (okay, Renegades did suck worse), and the reason is that it destroys all the thrill of discovery that we felt all through the first three books and the rest of the series. The "ancients" are revealed to be boring, stiff characters not half as interesting as the best of her 2nd string characters. The "main characters" are stupid and allow themselves to be duped, the evil characters are way too evil, and it basically takes much of the magic of the series away. All this history is meant to be subtle, to be something you think about after you put the book down -- but it's just a lot of dreck. It offers nothing that we didn't know, but a lot of flat, boring characters named Benden, Bitra and so on, and does nothing good. Please, do NOT read this book. Spend time with your kids instead.

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Summary: Wow! All aboard PERN!
Review: Check out the arrival of the first Pernese. It's fascinating to discover exactly how the colony was founded. I keep thinking that these poeple would love Robinton or some of the other later-on Pernese. The colonists certainly seem to have passed their character traits along to their descendants through Anne McCaffrey's pen (well, nowadays, her keyboard). Nabhi Nabol and Lord Meron of Nabol both make records in creepiness. I've always wanted to know what the founders of the major Holds and Weyrs were like and now I love them as much as Menolly , F'lar, Lessa,and the Dragons. Gobs of great character developpement combined with the interest of seeing how poeple coped with a difficult situation (the first threadfall) makes for a great book. High point of this page-turner: following the impression and developement of those magestic creatures all Pern addicts call Dragons

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Summary: Entertaining. A great look at the start of the Pern colony.
Review: Annie McCaffrey takes you the reader back to the start of the Pern Colony. After the spaceships up above Pern have been left for the surface and the colony has started for eight years the deadly rain known as Thread starts to fall. Then people see Fire-lizards flaming thread and wish they could only be bigger. So they set Kitty Ping, one of the most talented genetist ever, to make the Fire-lizards larger. Great story, very entertaing reading about the heroics of the first Dragon riders and the people of Pern