The Dragon Riders Of Pern

RoseDagger · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 292

Hey i wanted to know if anyone reads The Dragon Riders of Pern Series.

DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

Love the Pern Books ^^ They may not be my favorite fantasy series but they're really good. My fav book was The White Dragon
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Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

I found someone else who loves those Pern books! Wow! Lol. Very Happy

I love anything by Anne McCaffrey, Im currently reading Pegasus In Space. My fav Pern book would be....... All the Weyrs of Pern. Yup. Laughing

And DG I think it was you that said you liked the DragonLance Saga? I love those books as well. About a year ago I drew a pic of Malystryx, it can be found here.
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RoseDagger · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 292

Have you read The Skies of Pern? Its a newer book 2002 or 2003 i think....

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

Yup yup.

Theres an even newer one, Dragon's Kin, which is a collaboration of her and her son (really good, you should read it. Its more about watch-wher's, though). I remember finding a few inconsistencies in that one, but oh well.
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xWildfirEx · Has No Life Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 521

May I ask why she doesn't seem to like people doing fanart and fanfiction based on her work? Fanfiction and elfwood say that work based on her stories isn't allowed.

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject:

Really? :huh: Thats strange..... Ill look at that eventually. It might be the publisher. Im planning on doing a fan art picture of one of her stories eventually, though.
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Boss_Man7089 · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 301

Ive never read the The Dragon Riders Of Pern but i finished reading black dragon, thats by the same author, i liked that book a lot, anyone else read that??

RoseDagger · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 292

No but i'm gonna. Off to the library!

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

No, Ive never heard of it. WTF?

Did the cover look like this?
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Boss_Man7089 · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 301

Yeah thats the one....now ive made a complete fool of myself, I thought it was by anne macaffery but it wasnt there was just a mention of her name....Im sorry, and it was a graphic novel not a book, im not a fan of books. Sad

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

Sokay, it sounds like a really cool book thing. Too bad my library doesnt carry graphic novels..... Uneasy

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demonshadow · Very bored Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 168

i wanna read it...

iamem0tionless · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:35 pm Post subject:

What are they about? I'm probably going to finish up some Anne Rice books I've been meaning to read for a while this week, and after that I can read something new Razz

xWildfirEx · Has No Life Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 521

Its mainly fantasy stuff. With a bit of sci-fi.

I've read some of her other books, but not the dragon riders. She's pretty good.

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

General plot thing:
An Earth-like planet was colonized and then forgotten about. The people living on there were doing fine untill these mindless spores, called "Thread" started falling from the sky. They eat everything organic, but they cant eat through metal, stone, they drown in water, and fire burns them. So the colonists bio engineered dragons to burn the Thread in the sky. So most of the stories are about the dragons, their riders, and how theyre all trying to survive.

It kind of seems like a silly plot line, but the stories are actually intersting, if you care for fantasy/sci fi. The best book to start with would be Dragonflight.
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WaterLillies · Newb Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 19

I read Dragon Song but it didn't seem like the first one....ive been trting to figure it out becuase i was alittle confused but other than that it was good..maybe on of yall could tell me which ones/sreies i should read first?

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

My advice is to start with Dragonflight, then read Dragonquest, the White Dragon, All the Weyrs of Pern, and then the Skies of Pern. After all that, you should read Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. It's not the same time period, but it's a good story.

Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums is the order of the Harper Hall trilogy, which takes place on Pern but is more about fire-lizards then dragons.

The other Pernese books can be read in just about any order after you've read those up there. Hope that helped. Smile

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