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Map of the planet Pern. Humans have colonized the planet Pern in the Rukbat star system, but have lost much of their technology and history (including their origin on Earth) due to periodic onslaughts of Thread, a mycorrhizoid spore that voraciously consumes all organic material, including humans and their crops, given the opportunity.
It was completed in 1984 based on the first seven Pern novels and collaboration with McCaffrey. The Atlas is a large-format book comprising regional maps, chronologies for the seven published novels, local maps and drawings of "Hall, Hold, and Weyr", thematic maps on a world scale, and notes.
While the Dragonriders of Pern series is recognized as science fiction (due to its origin discussing the nature of the star Rukbat and its planetary system), many of its elements in the earlier books were primarily fantasy in origin. Dragonsdawn' establishes the science fiction nature of the series by defining the science behind McCaffrey's ...
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The Atlas of Pern (1984) ISBN 0-345-31434-4. Pern, based on the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey; The Atlas of the Land (1985) ISBN 0-345-31431-X. The Land, based on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Atlas of the Dragonlance World (1987) ISBN 0-88038-448-4
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series initiated by Anne McCaffrey with the Hugo Award–winning novella Weyr Search in 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The stories feature human history on the planet Pern , which might be called human-draconian society for its lifelong inter-species relationships between humans and dragons.
The Dragons of Pern are a fictional race created by Anne McCaffrey as an integral part of the science fiction world depicted in her Dragonriders of Pern novels. In creating the Pern setting, McCaffrey set out to subvert the clichés associated with dragons in European folklore and in modern fantasy fiction .
Nerilka's Story is the eighth book in the Dragonriders of Pern volume series. [2] Moreta (1983) and its sequel Nerilka (1985) are companion stories, in that the latter narrates a second perspective on major events of the former. It was the first work in the series following publication of The Atlas of Pern, and so is not covered in the Atlas.