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Red Star Rising: More Chronicles Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
01/03/2004 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Corgi. 416 page paperback. Price: £ 6.99 (UK). ISBN: 0-552-14272-7. check out website: www.booksattransworld.co.uk/annemccaffrey
This book presents more history of the colonised world of Pern. In this case, it is the year leading up to the Second Fall of thread from Pern's rogue orbit neighbouring planet.
Already the technology that came with the colonisers is falling apart and ceasing to function leaving the Pern humans problems of what to replace them with. For those familiar with the events of the Third Fall, the seeds of development, such as the Harper Hall, can be seen to evolve from this situation.
We also see the first signs of dissent when Bitra Hold Owner and generally nasty piece of work, Lord Chalkin, is doing nothing to prepare his people against thread. Quite the reverse in fact, leaving it to the Weyr leaders to get some of the older Hold Lords to act against him.
Into this problem, we have Anne McCaffrey's mix of characters, some of whom like the apparently incidental portrait artist Iantine, suddenly have expanded roles.
Although you need to have read more of the other Pern books to appreciate all the implications of this book, if you've started from the other historical chronological direction with books like 'Dragonsdawn' and 'First Fall', then you should have no problems here.
If anything, it's a credit to McCaffrey that she's pulled off a retroactive history line without missing a beat and once pulled in, you'll be after the other books to see how things changed.
GF Willmetts
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