Rescue Run Author:Anne McCaffrey "The distress call was sent by Pernese settlers who had just experienced their first Threadfall. A Federation ship answered the call - but not until 49 years later..." — Rescue Run is an intriguing novella about that ship - the story of it's crew's unsettling encounter with spaceborn Thread...of a landing party's visit to the abandoned early sett... more »lements on Pern's southern continent (they assumed the northern continent was uninhabited because their instruments detected no concentrations of heat or radio signals from the Holds, which had been built into caves to protect the colonists from Thread) and the would-be rescuers' startling conclusions about both the planet and the fate of those who had settled there half a century earlier.
First published to Analog magazine, Rescue Run was later released in book form by Wildside Press. This special, jacketed Book Club edition features decorative page borders plus ten interior illustrations by noted SF artist Pat Morrissey.« less