num_pages: 431
description: The dragonmakersThe beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists --until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything --and everyone -- in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cutoff from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed.Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragon-like lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the Fire-lizards were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider...And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed -- Dragons!
language: English
title: Dragonsdawn
titlecomplete: Dragonsdawn (Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, #6)
characters: Avril Bitra, Sean Connell, Paul Benden, Jim Tillek, Sorka Hanrahan, Emily Boll
genres: Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Adult, Fantasy, Adventure, High Fantasy
ratings_count: 39180
series: Pern , Pern (Chronological Order)
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: SFBC Award
publisher: Del Rey