Set two centuries after Dragonsdawn, the colonists are no longer as dependent on the technology which came to Pern on the three spaceships. McCaffrey shows the troubles undergone by the original colonists and how they dealt with them, along the way showing the origins of some of the standard characteristics of Pern as well as knowledge the colonists had that helped them survive which was later lost.ĭragonseye is probably the weakest of the three stories in the collection. The characters, many of whose names are familiar from the earlier published books, are given personalities which the reader can relate to and are shown not always to act in heroic manner.
Subsequently, McCaffrey has visited that past to flesh out the colonization (in Dragonsdawn), the establishment of the pseudo-medieval society which thrived at the time of Dragonflight (in Dragonseye ) and the legendary flight of the dragonrider Moreta in a novel of the same name.ĭragonsdawn not only served to answer many of the question which arose in The White Dragon, but also served to tie the series more firmly into the realm of science fiction. At the end of The White Dragon, the third volume, McCaffrey’s characters were only just beginning to discover their long-forgotten past. McCaffrey’s original series detailed the science-fictional world of Pern and its spore fighting dragonriders long after the planet was settled by colonists from Earth. On Dragonwings is an omnibus edition of three of Anne McCaffrey’s “historical” Pern novels.
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