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Dragonflight - by Anne McCaffrey
While I typically lean more towards the sci-fi side of things, I have no axe to grind
against fantasy novels, so it is nice that the Sword and Laser book club encouraged
me to check out the first book in one of the best known and well liked series of the genre.
While it's likely that I would have enjoyed this read more when I was 12, I still found it
to be plenty enjoyable at my advanced age. There are aspects to it that require a little
willing suspension of disbelief, such as the paradoxes involved with their sudden time travel
reveal, which is fine and just something to roll with. The characters, while not tremendously
deep, do start to achieve some interest in this relatively short first volume, and I am led to
believe that they get plenty fleshed out over the course of the series.
There is an interesting hard sci-fi foundation underneath all the dragons and castles,
postulating that this planet of humanoids was originally created by a lost colony from
Earth which, over hundreds of years, have lost that part of their history and the science
that goes with it, turning back to the more simple trappings of life with the spice of
telepathy and dragon wrangling.
Overall, a plenty fun read, though I probably won't continue with the series just now.
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