Dragonriders' Dawn

by Anne McCaffrey

Newcomers to Pern, rejoice! Now you can start this bestselling adventure series from the very beginning of Pernese history. This exclusive omnibus edition collects the novel Dragonsdawn, the story of how men and women first came to Pern and how they created the magnificent telepathic Dragons to fight the alien Thread, and The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, a collection of four novellas and one short story that adds richness and depth to the earliest days of the Dragon World.

599 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.
In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.