![]() ![]() ![]() Happily for Menolly, she isn't lonely for long. After her hand is almost crippled by an injury that puts a stop to her playing, she can't stand life in the repressive sea hold and runs away to live by herself. Menolly, wonderfully talented in every aspect of music, was the protegee of the harper, but when he died, her father regarded her as an embarrassment. ![]() The seahold (carved out of solid rock, like most Pernese settlements, so as to be safe from Thread) where Menolly grew up had rigid ideas about gender roles. Menolly lives on the planet of Pern, a place where dragons flame a deadly organism called Thread (nasty stuff, that devours anything organic it touches) from the sky. I will now try to type the first line of Dragonsinger from memory (it's been a number of years since I've re-read it): "When Menolly, daughter of Yanus Seaholder, arrived at the Harper Crafthall, she came in style, aboard a bronze dragon." (I scored 100%) So today I offer two books that blew my mind back when I was 12 or so- Dragonsong (1976) and Dragonsinger (1977) by Anne McCaffrey, for Retro Friday. I have a slew of books read for the Cybils whimpering to be reviewed, but my brain is fried. ![]()
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