Dragonriders of Pern · Book 8

Nerilka's Story

Published
1 January 1986
Pages
190
ISBN-13
9781439518359
Type
novel
Cover of Nerilka's Story

About this book

At 190 pages, "Nerilka's Story" (1986) revisits the same plague-era crisis as "Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern," continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series between that book and "Dragonsdawn."

Key facts about Nerilka's Story

Anne McCaffrey wrote Nerilka's Story, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1986. The book has 190 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781439518359 to find the main one.

Nerilka's Story is book 8 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

Nerilka's Story is book 8 in the Dragonriders of Pern series. It follows Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. It is followed by Dragonsdawn. 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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