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Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The first book of Pern series. Incorporates "Weyr Search," winner of the 1968 Hugo award and "Dragon Rider," winner of the 1968 Nebula award. "A well-crafted and tremendously popular tale of a planet threatened by spores from space which can be defeated only by taming fire-breathing alien 'dragons.' The relations between the dragonriders and their mounts have strong erotic overtones." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 107. In the Pern series McCaffrey "achieved a mode and intensity of feeling that broke new ground in fitting SF to the imaginative needs of teenage girls, thus helping to break the masculine mold of most previous SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-734. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-179. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 605-07. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 15 mm closed tear and associated crease at top edge of rear panel and light age-darkening along top and bottom edges. A very nice copy. (#141290).

Dragonflight is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, featuring the imaginative and tightly woven story of the colonists of Pern and their telepathically bonded dragons.