Dragonriders of Pern · Book 18
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.
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