- Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), Fantasy fiction, Dragons
Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Bantam Press, Audio Literature, Transworld Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781558006881
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“"IT'S THE THIRD planet we want in this pernicious system," Castor said in a totally jaundiced tone, his eyes fixed on the viewscreen.”
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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