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Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning in 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne.
In many ways, the dragon-riding fiction boom ignited by McCaffrey’s Pern culminated when HBO’s adaptation of Game of Thrones became a runaway hit in the 2010s. The Mother of Dragons herself ...
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 .
Red is one of the founding fathers of Pern society and, along with his extended family, reflects much of McCaffrey's own Irish origins in the multicultural mix of early Pern. As one of the senior vets, Red is a vital staff member in Kitti Ping 's dragon engineering project and a source of guidance to the dragonriders of the First Hatching.
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]
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).
The seventeenth Dragonriders of Pern book, A Gift of Dragons was the last one in the series written by Anne McCaffrey alone, before the entry of her son Todd (starting with Dragon's Kin). It was published first in the US and four months later in the UK with the same cover art, by Del Rey Books and Bantam UK, [a] two imprints of Random House ...
Sky Dragons is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey in the Dragonriders of Pern series that she initiated in 1967. [1] Published by Del Rey Ballantine and released July 2012, [2] Sky Dragons is the sequel to Dragon's Time. Anne McCaffrey