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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 .
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
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.
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 ...
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.
Shortly before Alex is due to graduate her aunt Marla, still in dragon form, reappears and her father dies. There is also a second mass dragoning of girls between the ages of 10 and 19. With more dragons choosing to stay with their families dragons become more commonly accepted.
One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...
A white dragon is a symbol associated in Welsh mythology with the Anglo-Saxons. White Dragon or The White Dragon may also refer to: Russel "White Dragon" Turner, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street; White Dragon (comics), three characters in Marvel Comics; White Dragon (DC Comics), four characters in DC Comics