Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

by MCCAFFREY, ANNE

• ISBN13: 9780345298737
• ISBN10: 034529873X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-09-12
• Publisher: Del Rey

Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. Moreta, Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, struggles to save the dragons of Pern from a deadly plague and risks her life to destroy the lethal parasite Thread and to preserve the future of the planet.

Author Biography

Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.10.43-1541, and Ruatha Hold	p. 1
Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.10.43	p. 25
Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43	p. 45
South Boll and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	p. 58
Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	p. 67
Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.11.43	p. 89
Healer Hall and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.11.43	p. 107
Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.12.43	p. 120
Healer Hall, Present Pass, 3.13.43; Butte Meeting and Fort Weyr, 3.14.43; Healer Hall, 3.15.43	p. 153
Fort Weyr and Ruatha Hold, Present Pass, 3.16.43	p. 188
Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.17.43	p. 203
Fort Hold, Fort and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.18.43	p. 218
Ruatha Hold and Fort Weyr, Present Pass, 3.19.43	p. 236
Healer Hall, Ruatha Hold, Fort Weyr, Ista Hold, Present Pass, 3.20.43	p. 248
Fort, Benden, Ista, Igen, Telgar, and High Reaches Weyrs, Present Pass, 3.21.43	p. 299
Aftermath, Present Pass, 4.23.43	p. 334
Dragondex	p. 341
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