![]() ![]() Jody Lynn Nye has also written two Pern Gamebooks. A relevant "nonfiction" reference work, written with Jody Lynn Nye, is The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern ( 19). The series – including various Young Adult spinoffs, less tough-minded than the opening volumes – continued into the twenty-first century, with Anne McCaffrey's son Todd McCaffrey joining her as collaborator on novels from Dragon's Kin ( 2003) until her death he also wrote the solo Pern novel Dragonsblood ( 2005). McCaffrey's dragons, though intelligent and having potent Psi Powers (in particular Telepathy and Teleportation), are not Supernatural Creatures but have been Genetically Engineered by the human colonists of planet Pern from this world's small "fire lizards", as described in the early prequel Dragonsdawn ( 1988). It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern that Ms. ![]() The initial Pern stories are the Hugo-winning "Weyr Search" (October 1967 Analog) and the Nebula-winning "Dragonrider" (December 1967-January 1968 Analog), assembled as Dragonflight (fixup 1968). I’m not going to compare him to Anne, I just want fun and interesting stories that expand upon the Pern world, which to date is one of the most. Very popular series of Planetary Romance/ Science Fantasy tales by Anne McCaffrey (whom see for fuller discussion). I’m over halfway through the original main series and honestly I really want to dive into the supplementary books written by Todd as long as they aren’t like mind-numbingly awful or anything. ![]()
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