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Jaxom, a rebellious youth, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.

The people of Pern, having battled the dreaded Thread for generations, gain new hope for eradicating the plague completely when they excavate the still-functioning voice-activated artificial intelligence system used by the planet's original settlers.

On Pern, men breed and train great fire-breathing dragons to help them fight the deadly silver Threads that fall from the sky, destroying all life-forms, whenever the Red Star passes near.

Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.

Lessa, the last of the bloodline of Ruatha, disguises herself as a kitchen drudge, biding her time until she can reclaim her birthright, but her plans are changed when she is pressed into service as Weyr woman to the new dragon queen and charged with helping rebuild the dragon force in time to combat an attack of the deadly Thread.

The dragons and their riders are called upon once again when Pern, trying to adjust to technological advances as well as the final Threadfall, is beset by new danger.