Anne McCaffrey 
Dragonflight 
(Dragonriders of Pern: 1): an awe-inspiring epic fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation

Let Anne Mc Caffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, introduce you to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this."Anne Mc Caffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants" – THE TIMES"Read Dragonflight and you’re confronted with Mc Caffrey the storyteller in her prime…" – SFX"Wonderful descriptive writing, the dragons are totally believable and their riders are very human." — ***** Reader review"Pure genius." — ***** Reader review"One of the all time classics of science fiction." — ***** Reader review"Well written, extraordinary world building whose influence can be seen even today." ***** Reader review********************************************************HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright.But everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa’s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. And the Queen is fading . . . dying . . .Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonquest.