Volume II of The Dragonriders of Pern(R), the legendary series by
award-winning author Anne McCaffrey
Since Lessa and Ramoth, her golden queen dragon, traveled into the past
to bring forward a small army of dragons and riders to save their world
from deadly alien spores, fear and desperation have spread across the
land. But while the dragonriders struggle with threats both otherworldly
and human, a young rider named F'nor and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch
a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source--the baleful red
star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all.