First published 1991
Forty-nine years after a desperate distress signal vanished into deep space, the Rescue Run spacecraft arrives at Pern—a world teetering on the brink of annihilation. The crew expects a routine humanitarian mission, but instead confronts a terrifying alien threat known as Thread: a voracious, planet-consuming organism that devours everything in its path. With Pern's survival hanging in the balance, the mission's captain faces an impossible decision: evacuate the planet's inhabitants or launch a high-risk counterattack against an enemy that seems insurmountable. As time runs out and the Thread spreads, every calculation becomes a potential death sentence for an entire civilization. One wrong move could mean total extinction.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, space-opera, action
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: against-the-odds, high-stakes
Setting: Pern
Period: 49 Years After
189 pages · Hardcover · Wildside Press