Mccaffrey offers both a cautionary and a hopeful tale here. It's a prequel to some of the original pern novels, and you don't need to have read any previous books to understand or enjoy it.

Dragonsdawn is a prequel to the wonderful anne mccaffrey dragonriders of pern fantasy series about a feudal society of people on a planet called pern. The book takes you from beginning to end of the completely, scientifically plausible creation, by sc...  Read More

The characters are well rounded and believable. Great storyline, great action and totally engrossing. Very cohesive and intriguing plot line.

Dragonsdawn jumps back to the founding of the planet pern by some 6,000 colonists. The story is good mix of the speculation of a possible transition between an advanced space-going race and what happens when other worlds are colonized. Immersing my mi...  Read More

There are so many characters barely fleshed out that we care about none of them. How could the descendants of these sluggish morons survive and create a viable civilization? It’s more than a thousand pages of this person saying something with a grin.