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The Atlas is a large-format book comprising regional maps, chronologies for the seven published novels, local maps and drawings of "Hall, Hold, and Weyr", thematic maps on a world scale, and notes. The Notes are page references to the canon , a list of reference works, and an index of place names.
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.
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This list follows Pern historical order and includes Pern short fiction. See Dragonriders of Pern for publication order and for more bibliographic data on the short fiction. Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series initiated by Anne McCaffrey with the Hugo Award–winning novella Weyr Search in 1967.
The Atlas of Pern (1984) ISBN 0-345-31434-4. Pern, based on the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey; The Atlas of the Land (1985) ISBN 0-345-31431-X. The Land, based on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson; The Atlas of the Dragonlance World (1987) ISBN 0-88038-448-4
Centered around a “not-like-other-girls” trauma survivor heroine and a stoically capable hero (free from trauma himself), the initial stories follow the struggles of the Dragonriders of Pern ...
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 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. The original Dragonriders of Pern trilogy with Ballantine Books was not completed until after the publication of Dragonsong and its sequel. [b]