Dragon's Kin
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780552151504
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Dragon's Kin
Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey wrote Dragon's Kin, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 400 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780552151504 to find the main one.
Dragon's Kin is book 18 of 26 in the Dragonriders of Pern series. The series has 26 published books. However, the series starts with Dragonflight (1968).
Additionally, Anne McCaffrey writes Doona, The Brainship Series and Pegasus, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our science fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Sky Dragons is the latest published Anne McCaffrey book on file, from 2012.
About Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey was an American-born, Ireland-based author best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, one of science fiction's most enduring franchises, launched with the 1968 novella Weyr Search. See every Anne McCaffrey book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552151504