The Skies of Pern (62 page)
Authors: Anne McCaffrey
He felt his chest fill with determination to succeed in his new tasks. He could feel tears coming to his eyes as he held out his hand to Tai. She rose, inclining her body toward him, her eyes shining, too. He saw Lytol’s face light up so that he seemed younger and more vital than ever. D’ram and Erragon got to their feet, while Master Wansor beamed benignly around the table.
The dragons continued to bugle and, in his head, F’lessan was certain that their call reverberated through every Weyr on the planet. He had the dragons’ support.
“Whatever we have to do, we shall,” he said in a choked voice. “There will always be dragons in the skies of Pern!”
BOUT THE
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A
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was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Before her success as a writer, she was involved in theater. She directed the American premiere of Carl Orff’s
Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus
, in which she also played a witch. Her first novel,
Restoree
, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in science fiction novels in the ’50s and early ’60s. McCaffrey is best known, however, for her handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the fifteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern.
McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
