Series: The Pern Series
Volume: 16
Genre: SF
ISBN: 345388232
Publisher: Del Rey
Price: 25
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 14
Volume: 16
Genre: SF
ISBN: 345388232
Publisher: Del Rey
Price: 25
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 14
Description: In a time when no Thread has fallen for centuries-when, indeed, many are beginning to dare hope that Thread will never fall again - a boy is born to Harper Hall. His name is Robinton, and he is destined to be one of the most famous and beloved leaders Pern has ever known.
The son of Petiron, renowned composer, and Merelan, one of Pern's most gifted singers, Robinton is a prodigy from birth. As a child, he is already composing music that the apprentice and journeyman harpers play with delight. And he also discovers another gift: he has the ability to speak with the dragons, who tend to reach out telepathically only to their riders.
But not everyone appreciates his talents. His own father, driven by jealousy, spurns the boy. And far to the north, in the High Reaches, trouble is brewing in the form of a despotic holder, Fax, who hates harpers in general - and Robinton in particular.
It is in this climate of unrest that Robinton will come into his own. For despite the tragedies that beset his own life, he continues to believe in music and in the dragons, and he is determined to save his beloved Pern from itself...so that the dragonriders can be ready to fly against the dreaded Thread when at last it returns! As the teaching songs sing:
Dragonmen must fly
When Threads are in the sky!
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