Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very\nfirst space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where\nthe early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned\nto be isolated in space. Here is the saga of the mass evacuation\nfrom the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people\nmoved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla\nof dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold\n- a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern. And here is one\nof the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne\nMcCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders\nand dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As news broke of\nthree fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to\nrealize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed\nBenden Weyr.

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