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Author:Anne McCaffrey
Title:Dragonflight
Publisher:  Corgi
Country:UK
Date:1970
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:552084530
Total Editions:4
First Published:  1968
Rating:8.0  Rate
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Anne McCaffrey - Dragonflight - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1968)

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ppint.
12th Jun 2018
 number in the isbn10 field is the sbn9 actually borne by first uk p/b printings of this book.

fix-up of "weyr search" (analog ("asf") vol. lxxx no.2; 10/1967)
and "dragon rider" (asf vol. lxxx nos. 4, 5; 12/1967, 1/1968)

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 5/- (25p), australia 80c, new zealand 75c, south africa 60c
256pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
 
 
ppint.
11th Jun 2018
 Rated 8/10
the dragons of pern series and sub-series:

#1: "dragonflight" (1968) (this fix-up novel)
#2: "dragonquest" (1971), q.v.
#3: "the white dragon" (1978), q.v.
#4: "the renegades of pern" (1989), q.v.
#5: "all the weyrs of pern" (1991), q.v.
#6: "the dolphins of pern" (1993), q.v.
#7: "the skies of pern" (2001), q.v.
(#8: "after the fall" (provisional title) was unfinished at anne's death, 21/11/2011; the intention was to complete it, but it remains unpublished and its current status is not publicly known.)

overlapping the events of which, especially #2: "dragonquest",
but also those of #3: "the white dragon", the events in which it materially affects,
is the story in the "young adult" harper hall trilogy:

#hh1: "dragonsong" (1976), q.v.
#hh2: "dragonsinger" (1977), q.v.
#hh3: "dragondrums", (1979), q.v.

the young adult characters' stories then feeding back into the main sequence, and affecting its events.

a prequel to the entire series appeared:

#a: "dragonsdawn" (1988), q.v.

which is best read after having read the first two or three of the main sequence, at least, as it has little - if any - of the feel of the dragonbooks.


other novels set after #a, but before the start of the main sequence with #1, include:

#b: "red star rising" (1996), q.v.,
aka "dragonseye" (us 1997 & ff.), q.v
#c: "moreta, dragonlady of pern" (1983), q.v.
#d: "nerilka's story" (1986), q.v.
#d not published separately in the uk, but as half a ''double'', together with a crystal singer novella:
''nerilka's story & the coelura'' (1987), q.v.

these are set thousands of turns (pern years) befoire the main sequence, and apart from one another;

and a prequel to the main sequence:

#0: "masterharper of pern (1998), q.v.

again, this is better read after reading at least #1 & #2, and probably the harper hall trilogy, to give decent indication of the character's significance to the over-all story.


collections of dragons of pern short stories, novelettes, novellas:
(stories set at various times in the history of pern)

"chronicles of pern: first fall" (1993), q.v.
"a gift of dragons" (2002), q.v.


dragonbooks by anne mccaffrey and todd mccaffrey, and by todd mccaffrey solo:
(set about five hundred years ("turns") after landing: the time of the third pass)

"dragon's kin" (2003);
"dragon's fire" (set during & after "kin") (2006);
"dragon harper" (follows "fire") (2007);
"dragonsblood" (2005, by todd mccaffrey solo), q.v.
"dragon's heart" (set during "blood") (2008, by todd mccaffrey solo);
"dragongirl" (set after "blood") (& "heart") (2010, by todd mccaffrey solo);
"dragon's time" (sequel to "girl") (2011);
"sky dragons" (sequel to "time") (2012);

.
(dragons of pern listing potentially to be continued, should any further be published.)

n.b.

g1: "dragonharper" (1987), q.v.
g2: "dragonfire" (1988), q.v.

both by jody lynn nye, are not novels;
they're pern-set "crossroads adventure" game books (from a series of 14) published by tor books.

(advice of errors, corrections and sundry observations at least in theory welcome... :-o)(:-))
.

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