《Red star rising 》作者：- Anne McCaffrey【EPUB】

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Red Star Rising by: Anne McCaffrey NOTE: this book has two names, in the uk where this book was purchased its entitled: "red star rising" but in the U.S. its called dragons eye Synopsis: When the volcanoes rumble and the powerful storms begin brewing on Pern, it means one thing: Thread. For 257 years Pern has been free of the life-destroying Thread, but now the Red Star has reappeared in the sky and soon the deadly Threadfall will follow. In the holds and weyrs across the land, the genetically-engineered dragons of Pern and their human riders begin feverishly training to combat the Thread, for only dragon fire can destroy the silvery invaders. But, incredibly, one Lord Holder refuses to believe the Thread will fall again, and he may endanger the entire planet. Prologue Rukbat, in the Sagittarian sector, was a golden o-type star. It had five planets, two asteroid belts, and a stray planet it had attracted and held in recent millennia. When men first settled on Rukbat's third planet and called it Pern, they had taken little notice of the stranger planet, swinging around its adopted primary in a wildly erratic orbit - until the desperate path of the wanderer brought it close to its stepsister at perihelion. When such aspects were harmonious, and not distorted by conjunctions with other planets