Dragons dawn anne mccaffrey7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() …and here we are, thousands of years earlier (but ten years later in terms of publication), as spaceships arrive at the planet of Pern to begin colonisation… not knowing, as the readers of the series know, that the planet is periodically bombarded by a voracious space-fungus that consumes all organic matter to fuel its insatiable growth. But at the end of the trilogies, people started discovering some strange, ancient artifacts… Massive, empathically-bonding, teleporting, time-travelling dragons. They were fantasy novels set in a pseudo-mediaeval world of trade guilds and feudalism… and dragons. The Pern cycle started off as Hugo- and Nebula-winning short stories, which grew into two trilogies of novels in the 1970s, and then a number of connected novels beyond them. And reading it again, I can absolutely see why. ![]() Pern was never one of my core reading worlds as a boy – it was clearly far too girly – but later on I did get into it and made my way through almost all the books. ![]()
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