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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 .
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) [2] [3] was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969).
Dragondrums (1979) – closing before the end of The White Dragon; Dragon's Code (2018, Gigi McCaffrey) – concurrent to The White Dragon; The White Dragon (1978) – incorporating the short story A Time When (1975) "The Impression" (1989) – short story by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey in The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern
Released by Atheneum Books in March 1976, it was the third to appear set on the world Pern of the Dragonriders of Pern. [1] In its time, however, Dragonsong brought the fictional planet Pern to a new publisher, editor, and target audience of young adults , and soon became the first book in the Harper Hall of Pern trilogy.
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.
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. The main characters are Clisser (college head, Fort Hold), Chalkin (Lord Holder, Bitra), K'vin (weyrleader, Telgar), Zulaya (weyrwoman, Telgar), Iantine (journeyman ...
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 ...
In 2014 the Royal Wessex Yeomanry adopted the white dragon as the centrepiece of their new capbadge. A dragon or wyvern is often used to represent Wessex, and a flag featuring a gold wyvern on a red field is used to represent Wessex. [5] In the present era, the white dragon symbol is sometimes associated with St Edmund, and