#306 in Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy (Books).Best Sellers Rank: #35,592 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books).Publisher : Del Rey Reissue edition (May 12, 1986).On Ramoth’s first mating flight, Mnementh catches her, and by Weyr tradition, this makes F’lar the Weyrleader. F’lar takes Lessa to Benden Weyr, where she Impresses the queen hatchling Ramoth and becomes the Weyrwoman, the new co-leader of the last active Weyr. F’lar convinces a reluctant Lessa to give up her birthright as Lord Holder of Ruatha Hold for the larger domain of the dragonweyr and she agrees to pass the title on to Fax’s newborn son (who later features in The White Dragon). He recognizes her potential to be the strongest Weyrwoman in recent history, and the path to his own leadership at Benden Weyr. F’lar recognizes that Lessa possesses both unusually strong psychic abilities and great strength of will. After killing Fax in single combat, following the rules of the Pernese code duello, he realises that she manipulated him emotionally to kill Fax and engineered Fax’s renouncement. The current queen has a batch of eggs due to hatch shortly, including a crucial golden egg. Lessa psychically influences other Hold workers to do less than their best work, or to become clumsy or inefficient, in order to sabotage Ruatha as part of her strategy to make it economically unproductive, so that Fax will renounce it and she can retake her Hold.į’lar, wingleader at Benden Weyr, and rider of the bronze dragon Mnementh, finds Lessa while searching for candidates to impress a new queen dragon. Her only friend is a watch-wher, a somewhat telepathic animal related to dragons, that guards the Hold. When the rest of her family is killed by a cruel usurper, Fax, she survives by disguising herself as a drudge (a menial servant), partly through simply adopting a slovenly appearance, but also by using her hereditary telepathic abilities to make others see her as far older and less attractive than she actually is. First published by Ballantine Books in July 1968, it was a fix-up of two novellas which between them had made the writer McCaffrey the first woman writer to win a Hugo and a Nebula Award.ĭragonflight pdf book is the story of Lessa, the sole survivor of the noble ruling family of Ruatha Hold on the northern continent of Pern. Dragonflight pdf Book is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series.
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