Dragons. Dragons? Dragons! In many fantasy worlds, there is not the most flattering opinion about these fairy-tale creatures. They guard treasures, eat for breakfast the best girls and knights, drive cattle into the mountains and burn villages, hamlets and entire cities. Somewhere they are guardians of magic, and somewhere else they are ruthless and cruel tyrants. But in the world of Pern, dragons are the main helpers of people in a difficult and noble task: protecting all life on the planet from threats from space. And, unlike their traditional counterparts, who often pose a similar threat, Pern dragons succeed in this.
Anne McCaffrey was born April 1, 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1947 she received a bachelor's degree with honors in the specialty “ Slavic languages and literature." Since 1954 - professional writer.
Among McCaffrey's early works, his debut novel Restoree (1967) stands out, in which the heroine returns to life after suspended animation, as well as a series of stories about a cyborg woman whose brain controls a starship, collected in the collection The Singing Ship. Who Sang, 1969). The first work of the Pern cycle was the story “Search,” and the entire series was created over three decades.
Anne McCaffrey's books are usually published by publishers in a variety of fantasy series, although they cannot be classified as pure fantasy. Of the images characteristic of this genre, only dragons are present on Pern (and even those are a product genetic engineering, and not the fire-breathing brainchild of Mother Nature). As for noble knights with two-handed swords, enchanted beauties, as well as sorcerers and magicians of all kinds, you won’t find them in McCaffrey. And, in my opinion, this is a big plus, because it gets pretty boring to read similar descriptions of spells and tables of ranks of the next magical world. There are no gods, at least in their traditional understanding: if the inhabitants of the planet worship anyone, it is the dragons themselves. This is confirmed by frequently used expressions like “In the name of the First Egg”, “I swear by the First Egg”, etc. The main enemy on Pern has nothing in common with goblinoids or necromancers who have stuck in their teeth. These are the so-called Threads - fungal spores that rain down on the planet once every two hundred years. In the face of this threat, the Perinites unite under the leadership of the dragons and their riders. However, as in any good science fiction, “there is no beast worse than man” - and Pern is no exception.
Astrography and planetology.
The location of the Pern cycle is the Rakbet system, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The system includes five planets and one more, wandering, captured by the gravitational bonds of the star in recent millennia. Pern is the third planet of the system. The atmosphere of Pern is breathable, there is enough water, and the gravity is similar to that of Earth and allows you to move without additional assistance. Several thousand years ago, humanity colonized Pern with far-reaching plans, but communication with the Center was lost, and the settlers were left to their own devices.
During reconnaissance and initial stage people did not pay attention to colonization special attention to a wandering planet moving around a star along an elongated and unstable trajectory. As usually happens, neglect became fatal. The path of the Scarlet Star (as the colonists later dubbed it) ran very close to Pern once every two hundred years. Such periods of rapprochement were subsequently called Passages - behind this neutral word was hidden a real Armageddon on a planetary scale.
The Scarlet Star turned out to be inhabited by a special form of life - thread microorganisms. These fungal spores (as defined by the author himself) are capable of reaching the atmosphere and surface of Pern during Passages. This is a downpour that destroys all living things in its path: in the best case, when it hits a person’s skin, the threads leave scars on it, as if burned with a hot iron. However, humanity has not survived in such alterations, especially when there is no way back. The first settlers found a way to fight this infection - with fire. And after meeting with fires, small creatures that look like small flying reptiles, the colonists created dragons. Dragons could burn threads right in the air, preventing them from falling to the ground.
Geographically, Pern consists of two continents - North and South. The colonization of the planet began with the latter: its warm climate and fertile soils attracted the first settlers. But after the volcanic eruption, the colonists were forced to move north, completely losing communication with the south of the planet. And although the weather conditions here were much worse than the blessed sun of the Southern Continent, the mountain ranges served as a reliable refuge for people during the Passage.
Time passed, and people developed more and more territories. By the time the first written novel in the “Flight of the Dragon” series begins, there were a dozen and a half independent regions with centers in the so-called Great Holds. The most famous are Fort Hold, the oldest on the planet, Ruath Hold, the only producer of breeding horses, and Benden Hold, one of the oldest holds, which is famous for its vineyards and wine. In addition to the Great Ones, there are also simply holds - small settlements scattered throughout each of the territories.
Lifestyle.
IN socially the world of Pern, admittedly, is quite close to fantasy, or more precisely, to the historical Middle Ages. The main occupation of the colonists was agriculture, and fishing plays a significant role in coastal holds. Craftsmen are united in professional workshops: blacksmiths, weavers, cattle breeders, sailors, miners and many others. Science interests the inhabitants of Pern only from an applied point of view, and they do it in the appropriate workshops. For example, in blacksmithing - optics, mechanics and electricity. The Walking Workshop is responsible for delivering messages. These people deliver mail on foot from one area of the mainland to another at any time of the year. The story “The Swift Walkers of Pern” is dedicated to the activities of these brave people. There is also a Healers' Workshop, whose masters are engaged exclusively in medical practice.
The Harper Workshop stands somewhat apart. Initially, it united bards who wrote and performed songs, but later its functions expanded significantly. Harpers teach children in the holds, and preserve ancient knowledge and books. They register births, marriages and deaths, and act as mediators in disputes. Harpers are responsible for the communication system, developing and deciphering the sound codes used to transmit messages using drums. They explore new lands and make maps of them. The head of the workshop, through his wards, receives all the information about the events taking place in the holdings. He analyzes it and calculates the consequences of certain actions, and then makes decisions that are most consistent with the benefit of the inhabitants of the planet. Because of their position, harpers enjoy a number of privileges, including immunity. They control the work of the rulers of individual holds, ensuring peace, order and tranquility in Pern.
Another privileged and isolated social group- horsemen. Together with their dragons, they live separately from the rest of the planet's population, in the craters of extinct volcanoes. The choice of this habitat is explained by the abundance of caves suitable for the needs of both dragons and people. Volcano settlements of horsemen are called weyrs. The weyrs do not support any farming; their needs are entirely provided by tithes paid by the holds. During the Passages, riders and dragons defend Pern from the invasion of threads, and between them they increase the dragon population and prepare for a new Passage.
Horsemen and dragons.
It consisted of breeding a new type of creature, similar to the noble dragons from fairy tales. Firefly DNA served as the starting material. The first dragons turned out to be “not very” large - about 25 meters in length. But during the colonization of the planet, the “kids” grew up and began to reach up to fifty meters. Problems with food arise relatively infrequently - once every four days - but these are problems in the literal sense of the word, because every time the dragon eats about one and a half tons of meat. However, one cannot say that these one and a half tons go in vain: in addition to their indispensability during Passages, dragons do an excellent job of transporting cargo (they can lift the weight of 4-5 people), have excellent eyesight and can spit fire. True, dragons need a special stone containing phosphine to breathe fire.
In addition to these "classic" draconic abilities, Pern's flying reptiles have three "tele-" abilities: telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis. These abilities, which existed in rudimentary form among the fires, were subsequently developed by human geneticists. Dragons, unlike their ancestors, can not only transmit pictures and emotions to people, but also fully communicate with them - on a telepathic level, of course. True, for this a person must have extrasensory perception.
Thanks to teleport, dragons can move almost instantly (in about five seconds) from one point in space to another. Riders call this process moving through the Gap. The gap is a kind of parallel reality, accessible only to dragons, where eternal cold and darkness reign. When moving through the Gap, you need to know exactly what point in physical reality you are going to get to, otherwise you can get stuck in parallel space for a long time. And this threatens with loss of orientation and sense of time, and ultimately with madness and even death. In the novel “Dragon's Wanderings,” young Lessa, the Benden weyrmistress, discovers a new facet of the gift of teleportation—the ability to travel through time as well.
For a long time the dragons had no idea that they also had telekinesis. IN last novel series - “The Skies of Pern” - they master this skill too. It consists of the ability to move objects, people and animals using sheer willpower.
Like other animals, dragons are divided into females and males. They differ from each other in color and capabilities. Females are gold and green dragons. Goldens are the only ones that can lay eggs and produce offspring, which is why they become queens. Greens, on the other hand, are sterile. Males come in bronze, brown and blue. The largest of them are bronze, only they can take the mating flight with the queen.
Riders and dragons share a powerful telepathic bond. It is established at the birth of a small dragon and lasts throughout life, and dragons live for about fifty years. When a new clutch appears to replenish their ranks, the riders go on a Search. They select boys and girls 12-18 years old with pronounced telepathic abilities (dragons have already determined this). Then, during birth, the newly hatched dragonets choose a life partner from the crowd of children, saying their name. Males choose boys and young men, females choose girls and girls. Riders are so closely associated with dragons that if misfortune happens and a rider dies, the dragon goes into the Between and remains there forever.
Bibliography.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series includes 16 novels and a novella.
The reading order officially approved by the writer is as follows:
“Flight of the Dragon”;
“Wanderings of the Dragon”;
“Song of Pern”;
“Singer Perna”;
“Drums of Pern”;
“White Dragon”;
“Morita - Lady of the Dragons”;
“The Story of Nerilka”;
“Dawn of Dragons”;
“Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall”;
“Eye of the Dragon”;
“Renegades of Pern”;
“Master Harper”;
“Fleet Walkers of Pern”
“All the weyrs of Pern”;
“Dolphins of Pern”;
"The Skies of Pern"
In addition, stories about Pern are included in McCaffrey's collection “Get off the Unicorn” and “Girl Who Heard Dragons.”
McCaffrey's books are not only an interesting and detailed world, but also exciting plots. They tell about strong and courageous people who face all the vicissitudes of fate with open eyes, and emerge from seemingly hopeless situations with their heads raised. Novels are addictive: while reading them, you involuntarily become imbued with the experiences of the main characters, and when the next book is swallowed in one breath, your hand involuntarily reaches for the continuation.
Briefly about the article: Dragons. Dragons? Dragons! In many fantasy worlds, there is not the most flattering opinion about these fairy-tale creatures. They guard treasures, eat the best girls and knights for breakfast, drive cattle into the mountains and burn villages, hamlets and entire cities. Somewhere they are guardians of magic, and somewhere they are ruthless and cruel tyrants. But in the world of Pern, dragons are the main helpers of people in a difficult and noble task: protecting all life on the planet from threats from space.
Dragons and riders
World of Pern
The wind carries black dust,
Throwing onto snow and ice
Dead dust of cold voids
From the barren Scarlet Star.
Dragons. Dragons? Dragons! In many fantasy worlds, there is not the most flattering opinion about these fairy-tale creatures. They guard treasures, eat the best girls and knights for breakfast, drive cattle into the mountains and burn villages, hamlets and entire cities. Somewhere they are guardians of magic, and somewhere they are ruthless and cruel tyrants. But in the world of Pern, dragons are the main helpers of people in a difficult and noble task: protecting all life on the planet from threats from space. And, unlike their traditional counterparts, who often pose a similar threat, Pern dragons succeed in this.
Anne McCaffrey's books are usually published by publishers in a variety of fantasy series, although they cannot be classified as pure fantasy. Of the images characteristic of this genre, only dragons are present on Pern (and even those are a product of genetic engineering, and not the fire-breathing brainchild of Mother Nature). As for noble knights with two-handed swords, enchanted beauties, as well as sorcerers and magicians of all kinds, you won’t find them in McCaffrey. And, in my opinion, this is a big plus, because it gets pretty boring to read similar descriptions of spells and tables of ranks of the next magical world. There are no gods, at least in their traditional understanding: if the inhabitants of the planet worship anyone, it is the dragons themselves. This is confirmed by frequently used expressions like “In the name of the First Egg”, “I swear by the First Egg”, etc. The main enemy on Pern has nothing in common with goblinoids or necromancers who have stuck in their teeth. These are the so-called Threads - fungal spores that rain down on the planet once every two hundred years. In the face of this threat, the Perinites unite under the leadership of the dragons and their riders. However, as in any good science fiction, “there is no beast worse than man” - and Pern is no exception.
Astrography and planetology
The location of the Pern cycle is the Rakbet system, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The system includes five planets and one more, wandering, captured by the gravitational bonds of the star in recent millennia. Pern is the third planet of the system. The atmosphere of Pern is breathable, there is enough water, and the gravity is similar to that of Earth and allows you to move without additional assistance. Several centuries ago, humanity colonized Pern with far-reaching plans, but communication with the Center was lost, and the settlers were left to their own devices.
During exploration and at the initial stage of colonization, people did not pay much attention to the wandering planet moving around the star along an elongated and unstable trajectory. As usually happens, neglect became fatal. The path of the Scarlet Star (as the colonists later dubbed it) ran very close to Pern once every two hundred years. Such periods of rapprochement were subsequently called Passages - behind this neutral word was hidden a real Armageddon on a planetary scale.
The Scarlet Star turned out to be inhabited by a special form of life - thread microorganisms. These fungal spores (as defined by the author himself) are capable of reaching the atmosphere and surface of Pern during Passages. This is a downpour that destroys all living things in its path: in the best case, when it hits a person’s skin, the threads leave scars on it, as if burned with a hot iron. However, humanity has not survived in such alterations, especially when there is no way back. The first settlers found a way to fight this infection - with the help of fire. And after meeting with fires, small creatures that look like small flying reptiles, the colonists created dragons. Dragons could burn threads right in the air, preventing them from falling to the ground.
Geographically, Pern consists of two continents - North and South. The colonization of the planet began with the latter: its warm climate and fertile soils attracted the first settlers. But after the volcanic eruption, the colonists were forced to move north, completely losing communication with the south of the planet. And although the weather conditions here were much worse than the blessed sun of the Southern Continent, the mountain ranges served as a reliable refuge for people during the Passage.
Time passed, and people developed more and more territories. By the time the first written novel in the “Flight of the Dragon” series begins, there were a dozen independent regions on Pern with centers in the so-called Great Holds. The most famous are Fort Hold, the oldest on the planet, Ruath Hold, the only producer of breeding horses, and Benden Hold, one of the oldest holds, which is famous for its vineyards and wine. In addition to the Great Ones, there are also simply holds - small settlements scattered throughout each of the territories.
LifestyleIn social terms, the world of Pern, it must be admitted, is quite close to fantasy, or more precisely, to the historical Middle Ages. The main occupation of the colonists is agriculture, and fishing plays a significant role in coastal holds. Craftsmen are united in professional workshops: blacksmiths, weavers, cattle breeders, sailors, miners and many others. Science interests the inhabitants of Pern only from an applied point of view, and they do it in the appropriate workshops. For example, in blacksmithing - optics, mechanics and electricity. The Walking Workshop is responsible for delivering messages. These people deliver mail on foot from one area of the mainland to another at any time of the year. The story “The Swift Walkers of Pern” is dedicated to the activities of these brave people. There is also a Healers' Workshop, whose masters are engaged exclusively in medical practice. The Harper Workshop stands somewhat apart. Initially, it united bards who wrote and performed songs, but later its functions expanded significantly. Harpers teach children in the holds, and preserve ancient knowledge and books. They register births, marriages and deaths, and act as mediators in disputes. Harpers are responsible for the communication system, developing and deciphering the sound codes used to transmit messages using drums. They explore new lands and make maps of them. The head of the workshop, through his wards, receives all the information about the events taking place in the holdings. He analyzes it and calculates the consequences of certain actions, and then makes decisions that are most consistent with the benefit of the inhabitants of the planet. Because of their position, harpers enjoy a number of privileges, including immunity. They control the work of the rulers of individual holds, ensuring peace, order and tranquility in Pern. Another privileged and isolated social group are horsemen. Together with their dragons, they live separately from the rest of the planet's population, in the craters of extinct volcanoes. The choice of this habitat is explained by the abundance of caves suitable for the needs of both dragons and people. Volcano settlements of horsemen are called weyrs. The weyrs do not support any farming; their needs are entirely met by tithes paid by the holds. During the Passages, riders and dragons defend Pern from the invasion of threads, and between them they work on increasing the dragon population and prepare for a new Passage. Dragons and ridersFortunately for people, the world of Pern was fraught with not only a mortal threat, but also deliverance from it. Some time after the start of colonization, the first Perinites encountered a local intelligent race - small flying creatures, fires. The kids had noticeable telepathic abilities and quickly learned to feel people’s moods, capture images, snippets of thoughts and desires, rejoice and mourn together with their older comrades. The communication, of course, was two-way. Michael Whelan, cover to The Girl Who Heard Dragons. |
It consisted of breeding a new type of creature, similar to the noble dragons from fairy tales. Firefly DNA served as the starting material. The first dragons turned out to be “not very” large - about 25 meters in length. But during the colonization of the planet, the “kids” grew up and began to reach up to fifty meters. Problems with food arise relatively infrequently - once every four days - but these are problems in the literal sense of the word, because each time the dragon eats about one and a half tons of meat. However, one cannot say that these one and a half tons go in vain: in addition to their indispensability during Passages, dragons do an excellent job of transporting cargo (they can lift the weight of 4-5 people), have excellent eyesight and can spit fire. True, dragons need a special stone containing phosphine to breathe fire.
In addition to these "classic" draconic abilities, Pern's flying reptiles have three "tele-" abilities: telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis. These abilities, which existed in rudimentary form among the fires, were subsequently developed by human geneticists. Dragons, unlike their ancestors, can not only transmit pictures and emotions to people, but also fully communicate with them - on a telepathic level, of course. True, for this a person must have extrasensory perception.
Thanks to teleport, dragons can move almost instantly (in about five seconds) from one point in space to another. Riders call this process moving through the Gap. The gap is a kind of parallel reality, accessible only to dragons, where eternal cold and darkness reign. When moving through the Gap, you need to know exactly what point in physical reality you are going to get to, otherwise you can get stuck in parallel space for a long time. And this threatens with loss of orientation and sense of time, and ultimately with madness and even death. In the novel “Dragon's Wanderings,” young Lessa, the Benden weyrmistress, discovers a new facet of the gift of teleportation—the ability to travel through time as well.
For a long time, dragons did not suspect that they also possessed telekinesis. In the last novel of the series - “The Skies of Pern” - they master this skill too. It consists of the ability to move objects, people and animals using sheer willpower.
Like other animals, dragons are divided into females and males. They differ from each other in color and capabilities. Females are gold and green dragons. Goldens are the only ones who can lay eggs and produce offspring, which is why they become queens. Greens, on the other hand, are sterile. Males come in bronze, brown and blue. The largest of them are bronze, only they can take off on a mating flight with the queen.
Riders and dragons share a powerful telepathic bond. It is established at the birth of a little dragon and lasts throughout life, and dragons live for about fifty years. When a new clutch appears to replenish their ranks, the riders go on a Search. They select boys and girls 12-18 years old with pronounced telepathic abilities (dragons have already determined this). Then, during birth, the newly hatched dragonets choose a life partner from the crowd of children, saying their name. Males choose boys and young men, females - girls and girls. Riders are so closely associated with dragons that if misfortune happens and a rider dies, the dragon goes into the Between and remains there forever.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series includes 16 novels and a novella. The reading order officially approved by the writer is as follows: “Flight of the Dragon”; “Wanderings of the Dragon”; “Song of Pern”; “Singer Perna”; “Drums of Pern”; “White Dragon”; “Morita - Lady of the Dragons”; “The Story of Nerilka”; “Dawn of Dragons”; “Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall”; “Eye of the Dragon”; “Renegades of Pern”; “Master Harper”; “Fleet Walkers of Pern” “All the weyrs of Pern”; “Dolphins of Pern”; "The Skies of Pern" In addition, stories about Pern are included in McCaffrey's collection “Get off the Unicorn” and “Girl Who Heard Dragons.” |
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McCaffrey's books are not only an interesting and detailed world, but also exciting plots. They tell about strong and courageous people who face all the vicissitudes of fate with open eyes, and emerge from seemingly hopeless situations with their heads raised. Novels are addictive: while reading them, you involuntarily become imbued with the experiences of the main characters, and when the next book is swallowed in one breath, your hand involuntarily reaches for the continuation.
On this page I will not post descriptions of dragons, weyrs, book characters, maps and everything else. This is all on other sites, but I don’t want to mirror someone’s sites. It’s better that I give some links to resources where all this is available (see below). This page will contain a general chronology of the events described in the books, and it will also be possible to download any of the books in the “Riders of Pern” series published under the authorship of Anne McCaffrey or her son Todd McCaffrey. I have been searching for this collection of books for a long time. It was difficult to find some recent books in Russian, as well as some short stories. Today, here is the most complete selection of books from what can be found on the Internet or anywhere else. Use it :)
If you have any wishes, suggestions for the content of the site or books that I don’t have on my page yet, contact me at e-mail
The last update of books on the site was November 2018.
Table with the chronology of all books. Compiled from different sources and supplemented by me in the most full version for today. In some books, chronology is indicated not from the date of landing on Pern, but from the date of the first fall. Therefore, there may be a discrepancy in revolutions of 8 years, depending on which reference point is adopted.
| Passage (Interval) | Turnover (after disembarkation) | Book (Story) | ||
| 0th int. | -190 | P.E.R.N Research Team | ||
| 0 | Dawn of Dragons | |||
| 1st pass | 8 | |||
| 9 | Dolphin Bell | |||
| 19 | Red Hanrahan's Broad | |||
| 28 | Second Weir | |||
| 50 | Blood of Dragons* | |||
| 1st int. | 58 | Rescue expedition | ||
| 59 | ||||
| 257 | Dragon Eye | |||
| 2nd pass | 258 | |||
| 2nd int. | 360 | Inseparable couple | ||
| 492 | Dragon Kin | |||
| 507 | Blood of Dragons* | |||
| 3rd pass | 508 | |||
| 6th pass.. | 1550 | Morita, Lord of the Dragons | History of Nerilka | |
| 6th int. | 1558 | |||
| 8th int. | 2452 | Harper Master of Pern | ||
| 2505 | Dragon flight | Renegades of Pern | Swiftmen of Pern | |
| 9th pass | 2508 | |||
| 2514 | Dragon's Wanderings | Song of Pern | ||
| 2515 | Singer Perna | |||
| 2518 | Imprint | Drums of Pern | ||
| Little dragon | ||||
| 2519 | White dragon | The Girl Who Heard Dragons | ||
| 2524 | All the weyrs of Pern | |||
| Dolphins of Pern | ||||
| 2838 | Heaven of Pern | |||
Chronology of Pern. (On the Internet you can find several options for the chronology of passages and intervals of the fall of threads on Pern. This option is correct.)
You can download all (well, almost all) books by Anne McCaffrey and her successor and son Todd McCaffrey from the Riders of Pern series here. Both books in Russian and in English. Just click on the title of the book you need to open it, or right-click on the title, select “Save target as..” from the menu and save it for yourself. All books are posted in *.txt format, as the most common format, which is easy to convert to any other, if someone wants, or put it on a mobile phone. The books are arranged in recommended reading order.
| Recommended reading order | Release year | Title of the book/story (rus) | Title of the book/story (eng) | Collection (rus) | Collection (eng) | Author |
| 1 | 1968 | Dragon flight | Dragonflight | Horsemen of Pern | The Dragonriders of Pern | Ann |
| 2 | 1970 | Dragon's Wanderings | Dragonquest | Horsemen of Pern | The Dragonriders of Pern | Ann |
| 3 | 1973 | Little Dragon | The Smallest Dragonboy | Stories | Stories | Ann |
| 4 | 1976 | Song of Pern | Dragonsong | Song of Pern | The Harper Hall | Ann |
| 5 | 1977 | Singer Perna | Dragonsinger | Song of Pern | The Harper Hall | Ann |
| 6 | 1979 | Drums of Pern | Dragondrums | Song of Pern | The Harper Hall | Ann |
| 7 | 1978 | White dragon | The White Dragon | Horsemen of Pern | The Dragonriders of Pern | Ann |
| 8 | 1983 | Morita - Lady of the Dragons | Moreta - Dragonlady of Pern | Ancient Pern | Ancient Pern | Ann |
| 9 | 1986 | History of Nerilka | Nerilka's Story - A Pern adventure | Ancient Pern | Ancient Pern | Ann |
| 10 | 1986 | The Girl Who Hears Dragons | The Girl Who Heard Dragons | Stories | Stories | Ann |
| 11 | 1988 | Dawn of Dragons | Dragonsdawn | On dragon wings | On Dragonwings | Ann |
| 12 | 1989 | Imprint | The Impression | Stories | Stories | Ann |
| 13 | 1989 | Renegades of Pern | The renegades of Pern | Other stories | Other stories | Ann |
| 14 | 1991 | All Weyrs of Pern | All the Weyrs of Pern | Other stories | Other stories | Ann |
| 15 | 1991 | Research team P.E.R.N. | Survey P.E.R.N. | Ann | ||
| 16 | 1993 | Dolphin Bells | The Dolphins" Bell | Chronicles of Pern - The First Fall | Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall | Ann |
| 17 | 1991 | Red Hanrahan's Broad | The Ford of Red Hanrahan | Chronicles of Pern - The First Fall | Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall | Ann |
| 18 | 1991 | Second Weir | The Second Weyr | Chronicles of Pern - The First Fall | Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall | Ann |
| 19 | 1991 | Rescue work | Rescue Run | Chronicles of Pern - The First Fall | Chronicles of Pern: The First Fall | Ann |
| 20 | 1994 | Dolphins of Pern | Dolphins of Pern | Other stories | Other stories | Ann |
| 21 | 1997 | Dragon's Eye (Crimson Star Rising) | Dragon's Eye (Red Star Rising) | On dragon wings | On Dragonwings | Ann |
| 22 | 1998 | Harper Master of Pern | Masterharper of Pern | Other stories | Other stories | Ann |
| 23 | 1998 | Swiftmen of Pern | The runners of Pern | Stories | Legends | Ann |
| 24 | 1999 | On the other side of the gap | Beyond Between | | Legends II | Ann |
| 25 | 2000 | Skies of Pern | The Skies of Pern | Other stories | Other stories | Ann |
| 26 | 2002 | Inseparable | Ever the Twain | Stories | Stories | Ann |
| 27 | 2003 | Dragon Kin | Dragon's Kin | | |
Ann + Todd |
| 28 | 2005 | Blood of Dragons | Dragonsblood | Horsemen of Pern | Dragonriders of Pern | Todd |
| 29 | 2006 | Dragon flame | Dragon's Fire | Horsemen of Pern | Dragonriders of Pern | Ann + Todd |
| 30 | 2007 | Dragon Harper | Dragon Harper | Horsemen of Pern | Dragonriders of Pern | Todd |
| 31 | 2008 | Dragon Heart | Dragonheart | Horsemen of Pern | Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern | Ann + Todd |
| 32 | 2010 | Rider | Dragongirl | Horsemen of Pern | Sequel to Dragonheart | Todd |
| 33 | 2011 | Time of Dragons | Dragon's Time | _at work_ | Sequel to Dragonrider | Todd |
| 34 | 2012 | Heavenly dragons. Sky Weyr | Sky Dragons | Horsemen of Pern | Sequel to Dragonheart | Todd |
| ? | - | After the fall | After the Fall | ??? | |
Todd |
| ? | - | * | Dragonrider | ??? | Sequel to Dragongirl | Todd |
| ? | 2010 | * | Dragon's Night | ??? | |
Ann + Todd |
IMPORTANT!
Books update (November 2018)I haven't updated the site or posted new books for a long time. But today I finally did it.
I am adding the missing books published in Russian translation. Since the last update of the site, several new books have been released: Dragonheart, Dragongirl, Dragon's Time and Sky Dragons. They are in .fb format and are now available for download in Russian and English using the links in the table above.
Maybe later I’ll re-upload the rest of the books in .fb format, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Huge, detailed map of Pern (clickable): 
LINKS to resources on Pern (books, descriptions, useful information and so on)
(click on the icon to open the link)
