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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.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Dragonriders of Pern, a series of novels by Anne and Todd McCaffrey "Dragonrider", a segment of the 1968 novel Dragonflight; Dragonrider, a villain from Marvel Comics; Dragon Riders, a group of fictional magician-warriors in Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle; Dragon Rider, a song by Jay Chou from the 2008 album Capricorn
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. In 1987, the magazine Locus ranked The White Dragon number 23 among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers. [1]