^ The Dragonriders of Pern title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

^ Dragonriders of Pern series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).

Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey by her son. McCaffrey has lived in the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland since September 1970, when she emigrated from greater New York City at age 44, with the second Pern book ( Dragonquest) nearing completion and a contract for the third.

The Pern Museum observes that the cover painting is one of the most popular depictions of Pern, easy to find in signed and unsigned versions online - including the intermediary Artists UK but no personal website.

^ The Harper Hall of Pern title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists Victoria Poyser alone as cover artist for any omnibus edition of the Harper Hall trilogy, merely 19 editions by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club.

Edwards Award for her 'lifetime contribution in writing for teens'. The American Library Association in 1999 cited the two early Pern trilogies ( Dragonriders and Harper Hall), along with The Ship Who Sang, when McCaffrey received the annual Margaret A. His voice changes and he needs a new occupation, perhaps at the communication drums. Dragonsinger covers her brief apprenticeship there, ending with her promotion to journeyman.ĭragondrums focuses on Piemur, a secondary character in Dragonsinger as a boy soprano, and one apprentice who made Menolly feel welcome.

Dragonsong ends with her invitation to the main craft-hall of the harpers. Synopses ĭragonsong and Dragonsinger feature 15-year-old Menolly, a girl with great musical talent raised in an isolated sea-hold (akin to a fishing village) where composition is no part of a girl's future. ' on the front covers of the first Bantam Spectra edition, early 1986. The three books were subtitled 'Volume One of The Harper Hall Trilogy', 'Volume Two. McCaffrey delivered Dragonsong and they contracted for a sequel before it was out. Hoped to attract more female readers to science fiction and solicited 'a story for young women in a different part of Pern'. Karl, who had established the children's and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books,

In contrast to the general audience for fantasy and science fiction. Omnibus editions of the two trilogies were published by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club in 19, titled The Dragonriders of Pern and The Harper Hall of Pern respectively. They were published by Atheneum Books in 1976, 1977, and 1979, alongside the Dragonriders of Pern series. They are part of the Dragonriders of Pern series as it is known today, 26 books by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey or daughter Gigi McCaffrey as of 2018. The Harper Hall trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.

The pern series in order