Anne McCaffrey, Dragonrider, 1926-2011
When I saw the Spelljammer boxed set in Game Towne here in San Diego, and read the part about flying into space on the back of a roc, I immediately thought about Anne McCaffrey’s• Pern and the thread that falls out of space from the red star.
When I discovered that the foreword lied to me, I wrote Dragon Dreams in the hopes of getting it into Dragon Magazine. But by then I’d lost touch with the D&D mainstream and it never went anywhere.
Dragonriders of Pern was pretty amazing when I first read it in high school. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still amazing now.
- Dragonflight•: Anne McCaffrey (paperback)
- “To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright.”
- Dragonquest•: Anne McCaffrey (paperback)
- Dragonriders of Pern Volume II: This Thread falls wrong…
- The White Dragon•: Anne McCaffrey (paperback)
- Dragonriders of Pern: Volume 3, sort of. The Oldtimers and the “moderns” are in conflict; and the discovery of some of the mysteries of the Ancients!
- Anne McCaffrey 1926-2011: Daddy Grognard
- “For anyone who’s ever ridden a dragon in their dreams, this is sad news. I read some of the Pern series but it was a long time ago. Must revisit it soon.”
- Dragon Dreams
- TSR’s Concordance of Arcane Space took Physics and threw it out the window. This article kicks Physics right out of town with a stern warning never to set foot in these here parts again.
- Silver sail and gold, above a dappled sea
- The lands of Mars, Venus, and beyond, where strange creatures dwell in vast oases of floating vinous balls. Space is a cross between Lovecraft’s Dreamlands and Burroughs’ Martian adventures. Within the outer reaches of the world, ships of driftwood and sailcloth ride the solar winds.