Dragon's Code: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern

by Gigi McCaffrey, Ryan Burke (Read by)

Overview

A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi’s most beloved series—Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern—relaunches with this original adventure from Anne’s daughter, Gigi McCaffrey.

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does her mother proud, adding to the family tradition of spinning unputdownable tales that recount the adventures of the brave inhabitants of a distant planet who battle the pitiless adversary known as Thread.

The last time Thread attacked Pern, the world was unprepared for the fight—until the Oldtimers appeared. These courageous dragonriders arrived from the past, traveling four hundred years to help their descendants survive. But the collision of past and present took its toll. While most of the displaced rescuers adapted to their new reality, others could not abide the jarring change and found themselves in soul-crushing exile, where unhappiness and resentment seethed.

Piemur, a journeyman harper, also feels displaced, cast adrift by the loss of his spectacular boyhood voice and uncertain of his future. But when the Masterharper of Pern sees promise in the young man and sends him undercover among the exiled Oldtimers, Piemur senses the looming catastrophe that threatens the balance of power between the Weyrs and Holds of Pern.

When the unthinkable happens, Piemur must rise to the challenge to avert disaster and restore honor to the dragons and dragonriders of Pern. Because now, in a world already beset by Thread, another, more insidious danger looms: For the first time in living memory, dragons may be on the verge of fighting dragons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781721336876
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Series:	Dragonriders of Pern Series , #24
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gigi McCaffrey collaborated with her late mother, Anne McCaffrey, on three short stories collected in the anthologies Great Writers & Kids Write Spooky Stories and Mothers and Daughters. She also contributed an essay to Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern, edited by her brother Todd McCaffrey. She lives in the Devil’s Glen, in the garden county of Ireland with her husband, their son, and the infamous hound, Sidney.

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Editorial Reviews

08/20/2018
This underdeveloped first novel from the daughter of the late Anne McCaffrey disappointingly drags out the latter’s legacy with a halfhearted return to one of the first stories set on the world of Pern, where humans and dragons form telepathic bonds. The near-nonexistent story gets away from the teenage main character, Piemur, forcing him to be passive and reactive as important events from the original series swirl about him, almost as if the author is afraid to do more than peer at established canon; she neither develops it in a new direction nor tells new stories in the classic setting. The clunky dialogue, heavy exposition, and generally novice writing make the lack of substantive plot uncomfortably apparent, and the lazy characterizations mostly involve noble dragonriders looking beautiful and graceful while antagonists are ugly and uncouth. (One character’s only notable feature is a speech impediment, which is put on display in a cartoonish, discomfiting way.) Sadly, this volume comes across as an attempt to trade on the McCaffrey name rather than an effort to nurture and extend the much-beloved franchise. Agent: Diana Tyler, MBA Literary. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

11/01/2018

Marking the 50th anniversary of her mother Anne McCaffrey's prolific "Dragonriders of Pern" books, Gigi McCaffrey makes her novel-writing debut with a fresh reboot of the series. In this coming-of-age story, Piemur, a journeyman harper, mourns the loss of his boyish voice but soon discovers a chance for redemption when the Masterharper of Pern sends him on a mission to spy among the Oldtimers. While with them, he becomes embroiled in social unrest and uncovers a disease threatening the Oldtimers as well as their dragons. Their fate rests on Piemur's young shoulders as he uses diplomacy to attempt to restore peace. Readers familiar with the series should appreciate the effort to be faithful to the original world of the Dragonriders. This entry includes a prologue, which helps newbies with the history of Pern. Teens will cheer for Piemur and his enthralling adventures with the dragons. VERDICT This fantasy series debut belongs on all teen shelves.—Sandi Jones, Wynne High School, AR

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