The dragonriders of pern anne mccaffrey5/27/2023 ![]() They’re the people charged with defending Pern from Thread using the planet’s indigenous dragons for the job. This is extremely bad news for the human settlers who’ve been eking out a pre-industrial existence since colonising the planet several generations earlier. They enter the planet’s atmosphere and devour everything organic in their path, like tiny versions of those things Kevin Bacon was faced with in Tremors. Pern itself is a planet that is threatened by lethal, mycorrhizoid spores known as ‘Thread’ that periodically rain down from an orbiting mass called the Red Star. This one is set somewhere in the vast expanse of space you can’t get to on EasyJet. ![]() **Pern, eh? So It’s Set In Switzerland? ** ![]() ![]() 1978’s The White Dragon made it onto the New York Times Best Seller list, which means LOADS of people read it, and her son Todd has taken on the mantle since McCaffrey’s death in 2011. The first two novellas, Weyr Search and Dragonrider, combined to form 1968’s Hugo Award-winning Dragonflight and won her a small army of fans that’s swelled with every subsequent addition. ![]() In short, it’s a series of books by American-Irish novelist Anne McCaffrey. ![]()
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