Dragonriders of Pern · Book 18

Dragon's Kin

by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780552151504
Type
novel

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Cover of Dragon's Kin

About this book

At 400 pages, "Dragon's Kin" (2003) is the first Pern novel Anne McCaffrey co-wrote with her son Todd McCaffrey, opening a run of books set earlier in Pern's timeline during the Third Pass that can be read as a self-contained pocket within the wider series.

Its place in Dragonriders of Pern

Dragon's Kin is book 18 in the Dragonriders of Pern series. It follows A Gift of Dragons. It is followed by Dragonsblood. 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…

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