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Dragon's Fire [A Pern Novel] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
eBook by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Romance
eBook Description:  Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award--winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern novels, is one of science fiction's most popular authors. With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she recently co-authored Changelings, Book One of The Twins of Petaybee. McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Pern novel Dragonsblood, as well as Dragon's Kin, which he co-wrote with his mother, Anne McCaffrey. A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.
eBook Publisher: Random House, Inc./Random House Publishing Group
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2006
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Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7 - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT (314 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT (473 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT (289 KB], SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT (1.5 MB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [661 KB]
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Microsoft Reader ISBN, Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN, MobiPocket Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9780345493828
 
"Superb storytelling . . . Essential for Pern fans of all ages." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"A guaranteed pleaser [in] one of sf’s most splendid and longest-lived sagas." -- Booklist "Todd McCaffrey does something I didn’t think anyone could do: he writes Anne McCaffrey’s Pern. . . . May the saga continue!" -- David Weber, author of The Shadow of Saganami "The torch has been passed and burns more brightly than ever. . . . [Dragonsblood] fits beautifully into the existing history and style of earlier books while still breaking new ground." -- Publishers Weekly
CHAPTER I Sent from hold, sent from craft, Whether old, whether daft. Shunned for good into the wild—Father, mother, baby child. HARPERHALL,
SECOND INTERVAL,
AFTER LANDING (AL) 490.3 He's still waving, isn't he?" Master Zist called back for the third time. He sat at the front of the wagon as it slowly drew away from the Harper Hall. The last of the winter snow covered the fields on either side of the track. Every now and then the wagon skidded as the workbeast lost his footing on the hard-packed icy snow and struggled to regain it. "Yes, he is," Cayla agreed, looking back out of the brightly painted wagon at the small figure slowly diminishing in the distance. "We couldn't bring him," Zist said regretfully. "He'd be too obvious." At least, Zist thought to himself, the lad was taking it better than he had when they'd first told him their plans. Pellar had thrown a silent tantrum, had sprawled on the ground in the Harper Hall's courtyard, feet and fists hitting the ground in his outrage. He stopped only when Carissa had started howling in sympathy with him. "She's crying for me, isn't she?" he scrawled quickly on the slate that was never far from his hands. "Yes, I suppose she is," Cayla answered. Pellar swiftly rubbed his slate clean and scrawled a new comment on it, thrusting it under Zist's eyes. "Are you taking her?" "We have to, she's still nursing." "We want to know that you're safe, here," Cayla added. "Aren't I part of your family?" Pellar scrawled in response, tears streaming down his face. "Of course you are!" Zist declared vociferously. "And we need you, as a member of our family, to stay here out of trouble." "You are always part of our family, Pellar," Cayla said firmly. "You've been part of our family since we first found you, ten Turns ago," Zist told him. "Then why can't I come?" Pellar scrawled on his slate, his mouth working soundlessly in emphasis. "Because we don't know who abandoned you," Zist told him, catching Pellar's chin in his hand and forcing the youngster to meet his eyes. "It could be some who were Shunned. If you come with us and they see you, they'll know that we're not Shunned." "You could get in trouble then?" Pellar wrote. Zist nodded. Pellar chewed his lip miserably, shoulders shaking so hard with his unvoiced sobs that he could barely wipe his slate to write a new message. "I'll stay. No trouble for you." Cayla read the note, thrust baby Carissa into Zist's arms, and grabbed Pellar into a firm and fierce hug. Copyright © 2006 by Anne McCaffrey and Todd J. McCaffrey.
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