I have started Dragonflight, volume one of Anne McCaffrey's The Dragonriders of Pern

I have started Dragonflight, volume one of Anne McCaffrey's The Dragonriders of Pern.

I know what you are thinking: "Ian, how can you call yourself a veteran Fantasy reader, how have you been reading Fantasy for so long, without having read a titan like McCaffrey's Pern books?" The answer is that the series, for no particular reason, never fell strongly enough on my radar at first but, regardless, I intend to rectify it now.

Thus do I find myself on the planet of Pern, in a tale that both Fantasy and Sci-Fi combined, facing a foe more biological than baleful yet no less ancient or harmful, alongside Lessa and dragonman F'lar. I am quite experienced with Dragon Riders courtesy of Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, so I cannot wait to at long last see how the originals, the Dragonriders of Pern, fare.

Honor those the dragons heed,
In thought and favor, word and deed.
Worlds are lost or worlds are saved
From those dangers dragon-braved.

Dragonman, avoid excess;
Greed will bring the Weyr distress;
To the ancient Laws adhere,
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr.