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In Dragon’s Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation. That writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey. Together, they penned a triumphant new chapter in the annals of the extraordinarily popular Dragonriders of Pern. Now, for the first time, Todd McCaffrey flies alone. And Dragonsblood is proof that the future of Pern is in good hands. After all, dragons are in his blood. . . .
Never in the dramatic history of Pern has there been a more dire emergency than that which faces the young dragonrider Lorana. A mysterious fatal illness is striking dragons. The epidemic is spreading like wildfire . . . and the next deadly cycle of Threadfall is only days away. Somehow, Lorana must find a cure before the dragons–including her own beloved Arith–succumb to the sickness, leaving Pern undefended.
The lyrics of an all-but-forgotten song seem to point toward an answer from nearly five hundred years in the past, when Kitti Ping and her daughter Wind Blossom bred the first dragons from their smaller cousins, the fire-lizards. No doubt the first colonists possessed the advanced technology to find the cure for which Lorana seeks, but over the centuries, that knowledge has been lost.
Or has it?
For in the distant past, an aged Wind Blossom worries that the germs that affect the fire-lizards may one day turn on larger prey–and unleash a plague that will destroy the dragons, Pern’s only defenders against Thread. But as her people struggle to survive, Wind Blossom has neither the time nor the resources to expend on a future that may never arrive–until suddenly she uncovers evidence that her worst fears will come true.
Now two brave women, separated by hundreds of years but joined by bonds transcending time, will become unknowing allies in a desperate race against sickness and Threadfall, with nothing less than the survival of all life on Pern at stake.
- Sales Rank: #1050692 in Books
- Brand: Del Rey
- Published on: 2005-01-25
- Released on: 2005-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.52" h x 1.42" w x 6.52" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The torch has been passed and burns more brightly than ever in this latest chapter of the venerable Pern saga, the first of what one hopes will be many solo efforts by the son of series creator Anne McCaffrey (Dragons of Pern). The narrative shifts smoothly between Wind Blossom, one of the original colonists of Pern, who's struggling to create a legacy for future generations before she dies, and Lorana, a young dragonrider born 450 years later with unusual talents for healing and telepathy. A genuinely spellbinding set of time travel puzzles and paradoxes is set against the moving backdrop of two populations struggling to survive: the children of the colonists, learning to live in a new world as they lose the technology of the old one, and the dragons of Lorana's time, who are dying of a mysterious plague just when they're needed to protect Pern. The strength of the two women and the mysterious connection between them is gradually revealed through a number of surprising and sometimes heartbreaking parallel occurrences. This stand-alone tale fits beautifully into the existing history and style of earlier books while still breaking new ground. Despite being geared toward the existing fan base, it will be quite accessible to new readers. In her introduction, the elder McCaffrey writes, "son, you done did good and me proud!" Even the most nepotism-wary will concur and eagerly look forward to the next installment. FYI:McCaffrey co-wrote the previous Pern novel, Dragon's Kin (2003), with his mother.
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From Booklist
After coauthoring Dragon's Kin [BKL S 15 03] with his mother, Anne, McCaffrey smoothly accepts the torch from her to further chronicle the world of the Dragonriders of Pern, her most famous creation. The story alternates between two times--the immediate present, more than 500 turns since the first landing on Pern, and 400 turns earlier, when geneticist Wind Blossom, whose mother had created the dragons, was still alive. The situation in the later period is dire: thread is falling, and the dragons are sickening and dying. Only Wind Blossom can save the dragons, and that seems impossible. Time is the literal cure, however, and making the impossible possible is the bond that Lorana, a marvelous young woman of the present, makes with Wind Blossom by reaching back in time to come up with the cure. McCaffrey convincingly spins a dramatic, thoroughly captivating tale, steeped in the lore and well-drawn characterizations of the people and the dragons for which the Pern novels are prized. Fans old and new will be delighted by his continuance of a beloved saga. Sally Estes
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Praise for Dragonsblood
“Todd McCaffrey does something I didn’t think anyone could do; he writes Anne McCaffrey’s Pern. Not just a novel set in Pern, but Pern. The people, the places, the characters and challenges. This is Pern, in the hands of a new master-grade Harper, carefully trained in the old traditions, but scoring his own ballads. May the saga continue!”
–DAVID WEBER, New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of Saganami
“Dragonsblood is a strong, lively story, with vivid, interesting characters and plenty of exciting action. Todd has captured the tone as well as the familiar settings of the Pern books. Pern fans (and newcomers to the Pern universe) have reason to rejoice.”
–ELIZABETH MOON, Nebula Award—winning author of Marque and Reprisal
“For Pern lovers, the good news is that Todd McCaffrey has inherited his mother’s storytelling ability. His dragons and firelizards, his harpers in Harper’s Hall, carry on the great traditions–and add much to them. Huzzah, Todd! You have learned wisdom indeed.”
–JANE YOLEN, award-winning author of Briar Rose
“Dragonsblood is cause for celebration! A worthy addition to one of the grandest traditions in the literature of the fantastic, this is a lock-the-door, take-the-phone-off-the-hook, send-the-kids-out-to-play, curl-up-and-enjoy adventure!”
–DAVID GERROLD, author of Blood and Fire
“The torch has been passed and burns more brightly than ever in this latest chapter of the venerable Pern saga, the first of what one hopes will be many solo efforts by the son of series creator Anne McCaffrey. . . . This stand-alone tale fits beautifully into the existing history and style of earlier books while still breaking new ground.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“McCaffrey convincingly spins a dramatic, thoroughly captivating tale, steeped in the lore and well-drawn characterizations of the people and the dragons for which the Pern novels are prized. Fans old and new will be delighted by his continuance of a beloved saga.”
–Booklist
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117 of 125 people found the following review helpful.
in the middle tier of Pern books, better than some later one
By B. Capossere
My theory on lengthy series is they tend to be divided into several tiers of quality: great ones (usually early on), good ones that don't match the passion or excitement of the top ones, adequate ones that serviceably move the grand story along but aren't particularly original or well-written, and the bad ones that were just spit out because series fans would by them. Dragonsblood for the most part falls into the second category, with a few flaws that move it down a bit within that tier.
It isn't such harsh praise to say the book doesn't match the first two series (dragonflight/quest/singer/song/drums, White Dragon) since they were so good, but one does miss the deep characterization, the passion, the originality of those earlier works. It's also not on par with some of the later "good-but-not-great" ones, such as All the Weyrs, but it does a decent job of storytelling within a familiar world.
Unfortunately, one of the flaws is that it's a bit too familiar plot-wise. We've seen much of Dragonsblood's story before: the plague, the race against time for a cure, the use of timing it to heal wounded dragonriders, the girl who can hear all dragons, the intemperate and/or incompetent weyrleader/weyrwoman who threatens the weyr's survival, found technology from the past helping out in the present, and perhaps most egregious, the use of a song from the past to inform the future of what they should be doing. It would have been nice to have been given a more original storyline.
Dragonsblood tracks two time periods, the second generation after original colonization, focusing mostly on Wind Blossom, and 500 turns later, focusing on Lorana. During threadfall, a plague strikes first dragonlizards and then dragons themselves, calling into the question the very survival of the humans on Pern. Without going into how, both time periods race to find a cure. Wind Blossom and others must also figure out a way to get that cure to the future. It's a more compelling and fast-paced plot than most of the later Pern books, and the time switches are handled well for the most part, with little confusion. Some confusion does arise, however, from the sheer number of characters, many of whom seem a bit superfluous. Some judicious editing would have helped here.
The characters range from fully fleshed out ones such as Lorana and Wind Blossom to several who are more shallowly presented and a few who simply appear and disappear both in the text and in memory.
There are a few clumsy attempts to "explain" why things happen as they do in the future, those awkward "so that's why people call them that" moments that often occur in prequel books. Even worse, there are a few times where things seem to contradict earlier, accepted Pern history. The suspension of disbelief at those moments is pretty hard.
The ending has a bit of a deus ex machina feel to it and is greatly burdened by the sudden influx of techno-speak. Here again, it's hard to believe what is happening, as characters in a barely-technological society are suddenly spouting gene theory and actually performing experiments, and doing it all quickly and smoothly. The ending, therefore, pulls the book down a bit in its rating.
In the end, while it has its many problems, Dragonsblood isn't a bad addition to the Pern canon, though it doesn't add much. Since it's better than Dragon's Kin, the previous book and one which McCaffery worked on as well, the trend is towards improvement, which bodes well. I'm not sure there are a lot of Pern stories left to tell (the overly familiar plot in this one gives pause), but with Dragonsblood's improvement over Dragon's Kin, McCaffery junior shows he might be able to handle what ones are left. Recommended for fans of the series, who won't be as disappointed as they've been with others. But for newbies, go back and start with Dragonflight and read in publication order. Then you'll understand why so many people flock to buy even the weaker ones.
222 of 242 people found the following review helpful.
Another slide downwards for Pern
By Mishal
Please ignore all but the first review of this particular book. Honestly, this was *not* good work, in a few ways, it was superior to Dragon's Kin, but not by very much. And it spoils more than it helps continuing the story of Pern.
~*Mild Spoiler alert.*~
Anne has made a reputation for not allowing fanfiction to be written (up until very recently) about her world, Pern. Her fear was that people would warp her world in ways she did not want. However, she seems to have allowed Todd to do plenty of warping on his own. And to be honest, I have seen better fanfiction than this book! (Track down Dragonschoice, if you don't belive me.) Where this book mostly fails is in it's treatment of previous canon, storyline and characterization.
Dragonsblood does not follow earlier story canon [Whers *were* an error, *not* a secret back-up plan, meant to look like a mistake]. Years of Anne telling us it was supposed to be a mistake, cannot suddenly be undone by deciding that "No! They weren't a mistake! They're supposed to eat Thread at night! Yeah! Because the air's all thick and stuff, and they fly in teams just like dragons!" Let's forget completely for a moment that: 1. Whers aren't that social (Dragonflight), and have lousy telepathy, so they couldn't really organize themselves anyway. 2. They have stubby, nothing wings that are clipped on top of it (Dragonflight). 3. How does the air get "thick" at night? 4. Anne's said in more than one place that Thread does not fall at night (http(colon)//www(dot)ids(dot)org(dot)au/~annac/dr/drmain/ammsg(dot)html, and Skies of Pern, and if it does, that's what the grubs are for. Not whers that have suddenly developed the ability to fly, and somehow eat Thread without it eating them from the inside out before it dies.
Todd also unfortunately forgets basic details about the very creatures he's writting about: whers have only 2 toes on each foot, not 3, *cannot* fly, and cannot hang about during the day. Experienced Weyrfolk do not suddenly forget that gold dragon eggs are 30% larger than regular eggs, and golden-tinged, so cannot "regular" eggs cannot be confused for gold ones.
And also about the world itself, Tea plants simply didn't take to Pernese soil, they were not lost because of the Crossing (Dragonsdawn), Pern does not have honey, because bees didn't survive the trip (The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern). Forgetting one or two of these things isn't so bad, its the fact that so many of these little facts are wrong and the incorrect statements repeated so much that rankles the mind of anyone who loves the original Anne books.
The storylines are a tangled mess, the jumping back and forth between the first and third Passes makes following the story difficult. Between having a new character being added every few pages and sumarilly forgeting they exist or killing them, leaves little opportunity to empathize with many of the characters or even care much when they do die or dissapear. Many plotlines were started, and nothing was made of them, Todd's editor should've snapped those out when she saw them. It probably would've helped kept the book from being a 400+ page monster if she had. That's disgraceful really, just because the McCaffrey's write-something, doesn't mean it has to go into print. There is such a thing as viciously and heartlessly murdering your darlings in the editing and polishing phases of writting.
Characterization was poor, lacking both in nearly any empathizing qualities or even likability. Wind Blossom was nicely portrayed as a somewhat bitter woman, forever living with the memory of her mother's standards, this created a good area of sympathizing with her, but she has no real redemming qualities to either make her even somewhat likable or able to be seen as anything but a plot device.
Lorana is a Mary Sue character if there ever was one, entirely too sweet and naive for anyone's tolerance, all she wants is to do good for the world, sketching pictues (I take the time now to remind you that at the 3rd Pass, paper was replaced with hides for record keeping, only paid Artists got canvas to paint or draw on), but all those icky-bad people and that yucky-yuck disease just make things so hard for her to do all those lovely sketches that people find so enchanting. Because she's had such a hard life after that plague; "Wait, wasn't there The Big Plague in Moreta? Yeah, but this is another plague. They happen a whole lot, just no one talks about them, for some reason I don't really explain all that well." Like they've never seen a portrait made before Lorana showed up.... She's too damn wishy-washy. And let's not start on the Talent universe infringements: her carisaks (you just couldn't say shoulder bag, could you Todd?), her Damia-style God-like telepathic powers. "She's so strong not only can she talk to other dragons, all of them talking all of the time doesn't seem to drive her out of her mind, and she can toss dragons /between/ to the colony days, and they aren't even hers!" It's nauseating, for once can we have a sona solve problems with a bit of ingenuity? Not all that tossing about of super-powers like they've been doing since Skies of Pern.
Aside from those two, every other character tends to slip through the cracks of one's mind, there's nothing in particular to keep them stuck in your memory. They basically did nothing but be plot fodder, and not even good fodder at that, choking their way down the throat of the reader as they struggled to find the signifigance of naming every single person in the Lower Caverns, and medical tents, even as some of them did only minor things like bringing food in for the main characters to eat, or offering Wind Blossom a cup of klah. Is it really necessary to mention all of those people? When they have absolutely no influence over the storyline or even in the actions of the main chracters?
Dragonsblood is unpolished, sorely needed to be cut by 50 pages, the hanging plots needed to be tied up, and for Faranth's sake Todd, Read ALL of your mother's books first! Get your facts straight, and make post-it notes of them somewhere where you can see them to remember that whers have two toes, that Pern doesn't have honey, that whers were an error and no amount of covering your ears and saying "nah-nah" won't unmake that statement, and for all of those little things that ruin the atmosphere of the world we've all come to know and love.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Very engaging...
By rebkah
Mr. McCaffrey writes almost exactly like his mother Anne McCaffrey, only a faint difference. The Pern books are uniformly pleasant adventure on another human world; engaging, entertaining, sometimes moving; comfortable reading for all.
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