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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.
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.
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).
After Dragon's Time (June 2011), there are 24 Pern fiction books by Anne McCaffrey and/or Todd McCaffrey, without overlap. Dragonriders of Pern (1978) and Harper Hall of Pern (1984) were omnibus editions of the original trilogy and the Harper Hall trilogy, comprising the first six Pern books.
The Harper Hall trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. [2] They are part of the Dragonriders of Pern series as it is known today, 26 books by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey or daughter Gigi McCaffrey as of 2018.
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]
The First Fall stories are united by the setting: they span a period from before humans arrived and the first few decades of settlement in the southern continent. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star", an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace, in the form of falling thread.
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.