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The Atlas of Pern by Karen Wynn Fonstad is an authorized companion book to the science fiction Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.It was completed in 1984 based on the first seven Pern novels and collaboration with McCaffrey.
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.
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 .
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.
Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern; Dragonriders of Pern (video game) L. List of Dragonriders of Pern characters This page was last edited on 13 December 2023, at 21: ...
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 ...
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]