pern (imaginary place)

A guide to help visualize the setting and background created by Anne McCaffrey in the world of Pern.

The people of Pern, having battled the dreaded Thread for generations, gain new hope for eradicating the plague completely when they excavate the still-functioning voice-activated artificial intelligence system used by the planet's original settlers.

McCaffrey's son treats fans to an inside look at the creation and development of the dragonriders and their world.

Lorana, a young dragonrider with a gift for healing and telepathy, rushes to find a cure when a mysterious fatal illness infects the dragons just when a deadly cycle of Threadfall is due, and realizes the answer lies with Wind Blossom, a geneticist whose mother created the dragons hundreds of years earlier.

Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper and learns that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words.

Pellar, a gifted tracker and orphan, accompanies Masterharper Zist on a secret mission to the Natalon coal-mining camp, where they discover a group of disillusioned workers who seem to have lost all hope.

When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.

Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.

When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.