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Summary: Another hit for McCaffrey!!!!!
Review: As a long time follower of Anne McCaffrey's writings and herdragon series in particular I was delighted with this her latestoffering. The thirteenth in this never long enough running saga, is expansive presenting a whole new range of characters and lots of potential for further development in upcoming works. An excellent addition to any dragon fans bookshelf. Anne sets the scene with the interesting premis of humans moving creatively from a techno-agrarian society to an almost totally agrarian one with the steady loss of advanced technology. Many questions that have arrisen from other books in the series, mostly set much later in the history of the settlement of Pern, find answers here. At the same time the reader comes up with a whole new set of questions for the author to mull over. Like, for example, when is one of the more creative and imaginative movie producers in the States going to wake up to the huge movie potential of the Dragons of Pern? Please keep it up Anne.
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Summary: Oh YEAH!
Review: I honestly didn't know that Anne had continued her Pern saga until I found the book hidden amongst the new releases. The cover certainly leaves a great deal to be desired, but Anne keeps the reader moving with the revelations of the origins of many of the mysteries that have plagued the faithful to her stories. Any true fan must have and enjoy this book
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Summary: Aliens be warned
Review: Non-US buyers should be warned that this is a re-titled US issue of "Red Star Rising - the Second Chronicles of Pern" published by Bantam Press in UK, copyright 1996. The contents are identical.
The difficulty in identifying this is partly due to the different copyright date but mainly because the Pern series is so interlinked now that it is almost impossible to disintangle the chronology.
The story contains no surprises but is written with the usual McCaffrey facility. An easy read but one that brings little new to the Pern saga.
Incidentally, the cover on the UK-Bantam book is far superior to the US cove
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Summary: Classic Dragonrider book on a par with the first three.
Review: After McCaffery's first three dragonrider books, I had the feeling she had run out of characters and plot on this story line, but this book is right in there with the first three. It has a captivating plot, good character development and is a real page-turner. I read it in one sitting, missing the better part of a night's sleep - I don't do that much any more. The villain was realistic to a teeth-grinding, annoying degree. In my opinion, the only bad things about it were that it ended too soon and I missed the fire lizards. Pern lovers rejoice, this one doesn't get relegated to "between."
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Summary: Another winner by McCaffrey
Review: After reading what I had thought to be the last book in Anne McCaffrey's Pern Series, I heard tale of a new book. I couldn't imagine what was left to write about, but the Dragonlady has surprised me again! Her tales of the origins of the Pernese culture and of the Second pass held me captive until I had finished the book and longed for yet another
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Summary: This book is not my kinda book . . . . .
Review: If, like myself, you pick up a book to read about two dimensional characters, romance and quality that Mills and Boon would be jealous of, a cover that looks like a two year-old drew it, adventure that would make my maths teacher fall asleep and one which you can't get into at all when your reading you would find that it's only the cover that will satisfy you. If your unlucky enough to live in the UK, you'll find that even that is taken away from you.
I am sickened by this book- and if you take my advice cut off the cover and put it around a book whose author wrote the back of a cornflake packet. . . . and you'll be much more happier. When I read this book, I found it was _so_ boring.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
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Summary: Pig?
Review: First of all, I loved the book just like all the other Pern books I've read. Second, the dragon on the cover, in MY opinion, looks like the dragon described in the books and in the 'Dragonlover's Guide to Pern'. McCaffrey's character's, though, were a little better in her other books than in this one
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Summary: An excellent addition to the tapestry of Pern
Review: When the Dragonriders series was recommended to me, I decided to read the series in story order instead of copyright order (as the author prefers). The first two in that order, Dragonsdawn, and Chronicles Of Pern were good solid SF novels. Moreta (the next, before Dragonseye came out) was pure fantasy. I wasn't expecting the fantasy and almost stopped reading the series. Dragonseye is a perfect transition. The book covers the loss of the last surviving pieces of hi-tech and the beginnings of the society so well loved in the later books. So many wonderful elements of the society of Pern have their beginnings here: the teaching songs and the eye-rocks, to name only two. I used to wonder where all the colonists' technology went.
All in all, I found Dragonseye completed the series. If there are questions unanswered in the history of Pern, I can't think of them. After you've read the series as the author prefers, go back and read it as a history. You'll see how Dragonseye fits in
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Summary: You gotta love dragons
Review: Usual Pern Fare, but always a fun read
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Summary: I love the Dragonriders of Pern.
Review: I am afraid I must agree with most of your other critics, in that you MUST get a new artist. I have never seen such an ugly dragon in all my years of reading. As for the content of the book, it wasn't as good as all of her other Pern books, but who cares? I wait impatiently for each new Pern novel and I would read anything she wrote explaining Pern. I eagerly await her next installment to the Pern series
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