Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern Series #7)

by Anne McCaffrey

Overview

Anne McCaffrey draws the reader back in time to an earlier Pern to tell the story of one of Pern’s great and true heroines.

An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. 

Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders were dying; and the mysterious ailment had spread to all but the most inaccessible holds. Pern was in mortal danger. For, if dragonriders did not rise to char Thread, the parasite would devour any and all organic life it encountered.

The future of the planet rested in the hands of Moreta and the other deicated, lelfless Pernese leaders. But of all their problems, the most difficult to overcome was time. . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780345298737
Publisher:	Random House Worlds
Publication date:	09/12/1984
Series:	Dragonriders of Pern Series , #7
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	173,254
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.68(h) x 1.05(d)
Lexile:	920L (what's this?)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

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Table of Contents

	Prologue	xi
I	Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.10.43-1541, and Ruatha Hold	1
II	Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.10.43	25
III	Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43	45
IV	South Boll and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	58
V	Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	67
VI	Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43	89
VII	Healer Hall and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	107
VIII	Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.12.43	120
IX	Healer Hall, Present Pass, 3.13.43; Butte Meeting and Fort Weyr, 3.14.43; Healer Hall, 3.15.43	153
X	Fort Weyr and Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.16.43	188
XI	Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.17.43	203
XII	Fort Hold, Fort and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.18.43	218
XIII	Ruatha Hold and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.19.43	236
XIV	Healer Hall, Ruatha Hold, Fort Weyr, Ista Hold, Present Pass, 3.20.43	248
XV	Fort, Benden, Ista, Igen, Telgar, and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.21.43	299
	Aftermath, Present Pass, 4.23.43	334
	Dragondex	341