Red Star Rising or Dragonseye is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.
It is the fourteenth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey.
For release in the United States the following year it was retitled Dragonseye.
Following in the footsteps of the novels that established the background of the colony, the book exposes the incremental loss of technology due to the hardships of thread, and inevitable progress towards the more feudal society shown later in the series timeline.
It answers such questions as: It also shows more about the process of caring for a newborn dragon than is shown in any of the other Pern books, and explores the ramifications of male riders of green dragons.