Moreta, the new weyrleader at Fort Weyr, leads the effort to save Pern from a deadly infection.

Traveling between times does not play a big role in the story, but there are small uses: K’lon stumble upon the chronoability of his dragon, using it to spend more time with his love A’murry; later, Moreta hatches a plan to bring more of the needed needlethorn from the future
But my dear boy, you’ve been taking a dreadful risking timing it. You could meet yourself coming and going—

Variants

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  1. Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Severn House, October 1983).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Anne McCaffrey