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The White Dragon is a science fantasy novel by Irish writer Anne McCaffrey. It completes the original Dragonriders trilogy in the Dragonriders of Pern series, seven years after the second book. It was first published by Del Rey Books in June 1978 .
Published by Atheneum Books in 1979, it was the sixth to appear in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey. [1] Dragondrums completed the Harper Hall of Pern trilogy one year after The White Dragon completed the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy. Boxed and omnibus editions of both trilogies soon followed.
It is the fourteenth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey. [1] Red Star Rising, or Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern, was published by Bantam UK in 1996. For release in the United States the following year it was retitled Dragonseye. [2]
Dave Langford reviewed Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern for White Dwarf #53, and wrote that "all the gimmicks recur- dragon telepathy, teleportation and time travel, excessive dragon cuteness, sugary scenes of 'Impression' in which boy/girl meets dragon, and a range of stock McCaffrey characters familiar from previous books, for all that Moreta is ...
Dragonsinger is a young adult science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.Published by Atheneum Books in 1977, it was the fourth to appear in the Dragonriders of Pern series written by Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey.
To describe the scene in which the city of Tarsis is destroyed by dragons, Margaret Weis studied World War II films of the bombing of London. [2]During the scene in which most of the characters are killed in a dream, Margaret Weis references Othello by William Shakespeare, with Caramon speaking the phrase: "No, you're wrong, Tanis.
Dragonflight is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.It is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. First published by Ballantine Books in July 1968, it was a fix-up of two novellas which between them had made McCaffrey the first woman writer to win a Hugo and a Nebula Award.
The Historia Brittonum and History of the Kings of Britain are the only medieval texts to use the white dragon as a symbol of the English. A similar story of white and red dragons fighting is found in the medieval romance Lludd and Llefelys, although in this case the dragons are not used to symbolize Britons or Saxons. The battle between the ...