Searching fro her belovid, Acorna makes an even more astonishing discovery; the remains of a subterranean world that beloned to the legendary Friends - a technologically advanced society that populated Vhiliinyar before the time of the Ancestors. Once again Acorna begins a quest that wll take her deep into the realms of limitless space to find the origins of her people.

Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, learns to survive with the help of renegade exile Zainal, but when the time comes to join in a revolution against the Catteni, she is torn between her love for Zainal and her desire to return to Earth.

Simeon is a shellperson with a mission to save station SSS-900 from invading space barbarians.

A crew is sent to Ireta to catalog fauna and flora, and search for new energy sources, but the results of their investigations are unexpected. Suddenly members of the crew begin to change and nobody knows what causes the change.

The oddest commodities turn out to be the ones that work. For some reason the fierce Catteni become easily addicted to a good cup of coffee. The colonists discover, the Catteni have their own kinds of vanity-which like all vanities can be catered to at a high price. Wuick thinking and the willingness to do whatever it takes are the colonists' tactics, as they work to position their little world as an equal partner among the intersstellar powers....

Princess Caissa leaves her home in the Blue City in hopes of finding more freedom in Yellow Triadic City, but along the way she meets a coelura, a mysterious rainbow creature.

On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, land holders and craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening thread. But it has been over 400 years since the last threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will ever strike again. But F'lar, rider of...

A thrilling novella of the early days on Pern, with illustrations and border decorations by Pat Morrissey.