Dragonsdawn

Dragonsdawn is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It was the ninth book published in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey. It was first published in 1989. It was published in the UK by Bantam Press in 1988 as Dragonsdawn: The First Chronicles of the Colony of Pern. While the Dragonriders of Pern series is recognized as science fiction (due to its origin discussing the nature of the star Rukbat and its planetary system), many of its elements in the earlier books were primarily fantasy in origin. Dragonsdawn clearly establishes the science fiction nature of the series by defining the science behind McCaffrey's dragons. The planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new...