All the Weyrs of Pern

Its place in Dragonriders of Pern

All the Weyrs of Pern is book 11 in the Dragonriders of Pern series. It follows The Renegades of Pern. It is followed by The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall. See the full Dragonriders of Pern reading order.

On the planet Pern, humans bond telepathically with giant, fire-breathing dragons and ride them into the sky to combat Thread — a mycorrhizoid spore that falls like corrosive rain from a wandering neighbor planet every couple of centuries, devouring anything organic it touches. Anne McCaffrey began the series in 1968 with Dragonflight , and it became one of the foundational works of science fantasy: colonists from a lost Earth expedition, generations removed from their technological origins, now live in a feudal…