The white dragon
by Anne McCaffrey
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Tired of his boring life, Lord Jaxom decides to secretly train his extraordinary dragon to take part in the desperate battles of dragons and their riders against the Threadfall that periodically threatens their planet.
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Pern (Imaginary place), Fiction in English, Fiction, Science fiction, Life on other planets, Space colonies, Dragons, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction - General, Non-Classifiable, Fiction - Science Fiction, Pern (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, OverDrivePlaces
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The White Dragon
October 12, 1983, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0345313364 9780345313362
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On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years. When dragons hatch, each gold (the Queen), bronze, blue or green dragon makes a telepathic connection with a child, and they beome inseparable. Naturally, lads destined to inherit and rule the semi-autonomous Holds cannot be part of this Thread-fighting life, but when young Lord Jaxom sees the struggle the last small egg is having, he can't help himself and runs to its assistance. The poor little runt is white and nobody expects it to live long, so Jaxom is allowed to keep Ruth.
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