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Pros

There is a rather long prologue that explains how fugitives from earth long ago came to the planet they call pern and *-landed. It also explains all about “thread” – the main problem that has been plaguing the inhabitants of pern.



Cons

Each story is formulaic and predictable with no real action. I read all genre's and this was just horrible with sci-fi being my favorite. Some book sellers advertise the original hardcopy (showing the original dust cover on the amazon web page) but sh...  Read More

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Quality


Anne mccaferey created a wonderful universe with pern


This leads to problems with the holders and craftsmen of the present not to mention the younger dragonriders


While that is an exciting premise the real strength of these stories lies in the humanity of the characters as they struggle wi...  Read More


I followed it with the three volume set of the harper hall of pern

Shipping


In the process of this exploration they find the remains of the ships in which their ancestors originally came to pern

Packaging/appearance


I have read and reread this series of book multiple time since i was introduced to this author in the mid1980s

Competitiveness


But do begin its a wonderful world

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  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 4,105 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 16 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Loved these books the first time the second time and however many times ive read these


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For the uninitiated this 3 in 1 volume maybe a good start


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The characters are mostly nice or at least relatable – except for those few who just aren’t – despite lessa having a quick temper and a few of the others being easily alarmed


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Before reading these books i was mildly puzzled why the author would consider them science fiction rather than fantasy


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    To me dragons sort of equal fantasy


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There is more technical stuff like how a sort of harmonic convergence of the other planets in the system has kept this other red planet out of range for a long time in recent years breaking what had been a regular cycle of thread falls


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Many of the residents of pern came to believe that the scourge of thread had ended forever

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