Anne McCaffrey Books

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Anne McCaffrey was a prominent Irish author best known for her any fantasy novels. These include many in the Dragonriders of Pern series. She was active in writing from 1967 up to her death in 2011.

Order of Dragonriders of Pern Series

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1 Dragonflight 1968 Description / Buy
2 Dragonquest 1971 Description / Buy
3 Dragonsong 1976 Description / Buy
4 Dragonsinger 1977 Description / Buy
5 The Smallest Dragonboy 1977 Description / Buy
6 The White Dragon 1978 Description / Buy
7 Dragondrums 1979 Description / Buy
8 Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern 1983 Description / Buy
9 Nerilka's Story 1986 Description / Buy
10 Dragonsdawn 1988 Description / Buy
11 The Renegades of Pern 1989 Description / Buy
12 All the Weyrs of Pern 1991 Description / Buy
13 The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall 1993 Description / Buy
14 The Dolphins of Pern 1994 Description / Buy
15 Red Star Rising / Dragonseye 1996 Description / Buy
16 The Masterharper of Pern 1998 Description / Buy
17 The Skies of Pern 2001 Description / Buy
18 A Gift of Dragons 2002 Description / Buy
19 Dragon's Kin ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2003 Description / Buy
20 Beyond Between 2003 Novella found in Legends II anthology.
21 Dragonsblood ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2005 Description / Buy
22 Dragon's Fire ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2006 Description / Buy
23 Dragon Harper ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2007 Description / Buy
24 Dragonheart ( By: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2008 Description / Buy
25 Dragon Girl ( By: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2010 Description / Buy
26 Dragon's Time ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2011 Description / Buy
27 Sky Dragons ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2011 Description / Buy
28 Dragon's Code ( By: Gigi McCaffrey) 2018 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Dragonriders of Pern Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dragonsdawn 1988 Description / Buy
2 The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall 1993 Description / Buy
3 Dragonsblood ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2005 Description / Buy
4 Red Star Rising / Dragonseye 1996 Description / Buy
5 Dragon's Kin ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2003 Description / Buy
6 Dragon's Fire ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2006 Description / Buy
7 Dragon Harper ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2007 Description / Buy
8 Dragonheart ( By: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2008 Description / Buy
9 Dragon Girl ( By: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2010 Description / Buy
10 Dragon's Time ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2011 Description / Buy
11 Sky Dragons ( With: Todd J. McCaffrey) 2011 Description / Buy
12 Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern 1983 Description / Buy
13 Beyond Between 2003 Novella found in Legends II anthology.
14 Nerilka's Story 1986 Description / Buy
15 The Masterharper of Pern 1998 Description / Buy
16 Dragonflight 1968 Description / Buy
17 Dragonquest 1971 Description / Buy
18 Dragonsong 1976 Description / Buy
19 Dragonsinger 1977 Description / Buy
20 Dragondrums 1979 Description / Buy
21 Dragon's Code ( By: Gigi McCaffrey) 2018 Description / Buy
22 The Smallest Dragonboy 1977 Description / Buy
23 The White Dragon 1978 Description / Buy
24 A Gift of Dragons 2002 Description / Buy
25 The Renegades of Pern 1989 Description / Buy
26 All the Weyrs of Pern 1991 Description / Buy
27 The Dolphins of Pern 1994 Description / Buy
28 The Skies of Pern 2001 Description / Buy
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Order of New Adventures of Pern Series with Todd J. McCaffrey

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1 Dragon's Kin 2003 Description / Buy
2 Dragon's Fire 2006 Description / Buy
3 Dragon Harper 2007 Description / Buy
4 Dragon's Time 2011 Description / Buy
5 Sky Dragons 2011 Description / Buy

Order of Acorna Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Margaret Ball

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1 Acorna: The Unicorn Girl 1997 Description / Buy
2 Acorna's Quest 1998 Description / Buy
3 Acorna's People 1999 Description / Buy
4 Acorna's World 1999 Description / Buy
5 Acorna's Search 2001 Description / Buy
6 Acorna's Rebels 2003 Description / Buy
7 Acorna's Triumph 2004 Description / Buy
8 First Warning: Acorna's Children 2005 Description / Buy
9 Second Wave: Acorna's Children 2006 Description / Buy
10 Third Watch: Acorna's Children 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Acorna's Children Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

# Read Title Published Details
1 First Warning: Acorna's Children 2005 Description / Buy
2 Second Wave: Acorna's Children 2006 Description / Buy
3 Third Watch: Acorna's Children 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Brainship Series

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1 The Ship Who Sang 1969 Description / Buy
2 The Ship Who Searched ( With: Mercedes Lackey) 1992 Description / Buy
3 PartnerShip ( By: Margaret Ball) 1992 Description / Buy
4 The City Who Fought ( By: S.M. Stirling) 1993 Description / Buy
5 The Ship Who Won ( With: Jody Lynn Nye) 1993 Description / Buy
6 The Ship Errant ( By: Jody Lynn Nye) 1996 Description / Buy
7 The Ship Avenged ( By: S.M. Stirling) 1997 Description / Buy
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Order of Crystal Universe Series

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1 The Coelura 1983 Description / Buy
2 Nimisha's Ship 1998 Description / Buy

Order of Crystal Singer Trilogy Series with

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1 Crystal Singer 1982 Description / Buy
2 Killashandra 1985 Description / Buy
3 Crystal Line 1992 Description / Buy

Order of Dinosaur Planet Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dinosaur Planet 1978 Description / Buy
2 Dinosaur Planet Survivors 1984 Description / Buy

Order of Doona Series

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1 Decision at Doona 1969 Description / Buy
2 Crisis on Doona ( With: Jody Lynn Nye) 1992 Description / Buy
3 Treaty at Doona / Treaty Planet ( With: Jody Lynn Nye) 1994 Description / Buy

Order of Freedom Series

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1 Freedom's Landing 1995 Description / Buy
2 Freedom's Choice 1997 Description / Buy
3 Freedom's Challenge 1998 Description / Buy
4 Freedom's Ransom 2002 Description / Buy

Order of Harper Hall of Pern Series

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1 Dragonsong 1976 Description / Buy
2 Dragonsinger 1977 Description / Buy
3 Dragondrums 1979 Description / Buy

Order of Petaybee/Powers Trilogy Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

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1 Powers That Be 1993 Description / Buy
2 Power Lines 1994 Description / Buy
3 Power Play 1995 Description / Buy

Order of Planet Pirates Series

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1 Sassinak ( With: Elizabeth Moon) 1990 Description / Buy
2 The Death of Sleep ( With: Jody Lynn Nye) 1990 Description / Buy
3 Generation Warriors ( With: Elizabeth Moon) 1991 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Planet Pirates Series

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1 The Death of Sleep ( With: Jody Lynn Nye) 1990 Description / Buy
2 Sassinak ( With: Elizabeth Moon) 1990 Description / Buy
3 Generation Warriors ( With: Elizabeth Moon) 1991 Description / Buy

Order of The Talent Series

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1 To Ride Pegasus 1973 Description / Buy
2 Pegasus in Flight 1990 Description / Buy
3 Pegasus in Space 2000 Description / Buy

Order of Tales of the Barque Cats Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

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1 Catalyst 2009 Description / Buy
2 Catacombs 2010 Description / Buy

Order of The Tower and Hive Series

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1 The Rowan 1990 Description / Buy
2 Damia 1991 Description / Buy
3 Damia's Children 1993 Description / Buy
4 Lyon's Pride 1994 Description / Buy
5 The Tower and the Hive 1999 Description / Buy

Order of Twins of Petaybee Series with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

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1 Changelings 2005 Description / Buy
2 Maelstrom 2006 Description / Buy
3 Deluge 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Three Women Series

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1 Ring of Fear 1971 Description / Buy
2 The Kilternan Legacy 1975 Description / Buy
3 Three Women 1990 Description / Buy

Order of Anne McCaffrey Standalone Novels

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1 Restoree 1967 Description / Buy
2 The Mark of Merlin 1971 Description / Buy
3 Stitch in Snow 1984 Description / Buy
4 The Year of the Lucy 1986 Description / Buy
5 The Lady 1987 Description / Buy
6 An Exchange Of Gifts 1995 Description / Buy
7 No One Noticed the Cat 1996 Description / Buy
8 If Wishes Were Horses (Short Story) 1998 Description / Buy
9 Black Horses for the King 1998 Description / Buy

Order of Anne McCaffrey Short Stories/Novellas

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1 A Time When 1975 Description / Buy
2 Duty Calls 1988 Description / Buy
3 Rescue Run 1991 Description / Buy

Order of Anne McCaffrey Short Story Collections

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1 Get Off the Unicorn 1977 Description / Buy
2 Future love 1977 Description / Buy
3 Habit is an old horse (Short Story) 1984 Description / Buy
4 The Girl Who Heard Dragons 1985 Description / Buy
5 A Gift of Dragons 2002 Description / Buy

Order of Anne McCaffrey Non-Fiction

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1 Cooking Out Of This World 1973 Description / Buy
2 The Atlas of Pern 1984 Description / Buy
3 A Diversity of Dragons 1995 Description / Buy
4 Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey 1996 Description / Buy

Order of Legends Series

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1 Legends ( With: Stephen King, Robert Silverberg) 1998 Description / Buy
2 Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King ( By: Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Haydon) 1998 Description / Buy
3 Legends 3 ( By: Terry Pratchett, Tad Williams, Robert Jordan, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999 Description / Buy
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Order of L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future Series

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1 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1985 Description / Buy
2 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1986 Description / Buy
3 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1987 Description / Buy
4 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1988 Description / Buy
5 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1989 Description / Buy
6 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1991 Description / Buy
7 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1992 Description / Buy
8 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 9 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 1993 Description / Buy
9 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 (Short Story) ( By: Dave Wolverton) 1994 Description / Buy
10 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 1995 Description / Buy
11 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 1996 Description / Buy
12 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 1997 Description / Buy
13 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard, Dave Wolverton) 1998 Description / Buy
14 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 ( By: Algis Budrys) 1999 Description / Buy
15 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 ( By: Algis Budrys, L. Ron Hubbard) 2000 Description / Buy
16 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 ( By: Algis Budrys, L. Ron Hubbard) 2001 Description / Buy
17 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 ( By: Algis Budrys, L. Ron Hubbard) 2002 Description / Buy
18 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 ( By: Algis Budrys) 2004 Description / Buy
19 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 ( By: Algis Budrys) 2005 Description / Buy
20 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2006 Description / Buy
21 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 ( By: Algis Budrys) 2007 Description / Buy
22 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2008 Description / Buy
23 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2009 Description / Buy
24 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard, Jason Fischer, Tom Crosshill, Brad R. Torgersen, Laurie Tom, Adam Colston, Scott W. Baker, Simon Cooper, Brent Knowles, K.C. Ball, Lael Salaets, Jeff Young, Alex Black) 2010 Description / Buy
25 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 27 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2011 Description / Buy
26 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2012 Description / Buy
27 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard, Andrea G. Stewart) 2013 Description / Buy
28 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 ( By: David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard) 2014 Description / Buy
29 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2015 Description / Buy
30 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 ( By: David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard, Stephen C. Merlino) 2016 Description / Buy
31 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 ( With: David Farland, Todd J. McCaffrey, L. Ron Hubbard) 2017 Description / Buy
32 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 ( By: David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard) 2018 Description / Buy
33 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 ( By: David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard) 2019 Description / Buy
34 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 ( By: David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard) 2020 Description / Buy
35 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 ( By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Orson Scott Card, David Farland, L. Ron Hubbard, Jody Lynn Nye, Barbara Lund, Elizabeth Chatsworth, Brittany Rainsdon, Craig Elliott, Christopher Bowthorpe, John M. Campbell, Ryan Cole, Anj Dockrey, K. D. Julicher, Erik Lynd, Sara Fox, Elaine Midcoh, Trent Walter, Emma Washburn, Luke Wildman) 2021 Description / Buy
36 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2022 Description / Buy
37 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 ( By: L. Ron Hubbard) 2023 Description / Buy
38 L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future, Vol. 40 ( By: S.M. Stirling, Bob Eggleton, L. Ron Hubbard, Lisa Silverthorne, Jody Lynn Nye, Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress, Jack Nash, Lucas Durham, Galen Westlake, Stephannie Tallent, James Davies, Tom Vandermolen, Chris Arias, Amir Agoora, Kal M, Sky McKinnon, Rosalyn Robilliard, Lance Robinson, John Eric Schleicher, Mary Wordsmith, Dan Dos Santos, Ashley Cassaday, Gigi Hooper, Jennifer Mellen, Pedro Nascimento, Steve Bentley, Connor Chamberlain, Selena Meraki, Guelly Rivera, Tyler Vail, Carina Zhang, May Zheng) 2024 Description / Buy
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Order of Anne McCaffrey Graphic Novels with Brynne Stephens

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dragonflight #1 (Short Story) ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1991 Description / Buy
2 Dragonflight #2 ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1991 Description / Buy
3 Dragonflight #3 ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1993 Description / Buy

Order of Brynne Stephens Graphic Novels with Brynne Stephens

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dragonflight #1 (Short Story) ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1991 Description / Buy
2 Dragonflight #2 ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1991 Description / Buy
3 Dragonflight #3 ( With: Brynne Stephens) 1993 Description / Buy

Anne McCaffrey Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1967 1967 Description / Buy
2 Analog 7 1969 Description / Buy
3 Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, March 1969 1969 Description / Buy
4 Alchemy and Academe 1970 Description / Buy
5 Young Demons 1972 Description / Buy
6 More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 1973 Description / Buy
7 Ten Tomorrows 1973 Description / Buy
8 Demon Kind 1973 Description / Buy
9 Continuum 2 1974 Description / Buy
10 Continuum 1 1974 Description / Buy
11 Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium 1975 Description / Buy
12 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981 Description / Buy
13 Dragon Tales 1982 Description / Buy
14 Science Fiction A to Z 1982 Description / Buy
15 Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton 1985 Description / Buy
16 Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three 1990 Description / Buy
17 Once Upon a Time 1991 Description / Buy
18 Cats in Space... and Other Places 1992 Description / Buy
19 Confederacy of the Dead 1993 Description / Buy
20 The Ultimate Alien 1995 Description / Buy
21 The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995 Description / Buy
22 Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear 1996 Description / Buy
23 Space Opera 1996 Description / Buy
24 Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011 1998 Description / Buy
25 Runner of Pern 1998 Description / Buy
26 Mothers and Daughters 1998 Description / Buy
27 Far Horizons 1999 Description / Buy
28 On Dragonwings 2003 Description / Buy
29 Emerald Eye 2005 Description / Buy
30 Dancing with the Dark 2009 Description / Buy
31 Federations 2009 Description / Buy
32 The Fleet 2011 Description / Buy
33 Lightspeed: Year One 2011 Description / Buy
34 Women of Futures Past 2016 Description / Buy
35 Infinite Stars 2017 Description / Buy
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Born in Massachusetts, McCaffrey was raised by parents of Irish and English descent. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she was particularly interested in classic works and histories. She started writing in the 1950s and had a few short stories published. She was interested in stories about fantasy and understanding the future. She particularly worked as a secretary and treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America in the late 1960s.

Over the years McCaffrey created a variety of book series including the Dragonriders of Pern series and the Talents and Acrona series. Many of her works were written alongside her son Todd McCaffrey and fellow writer Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. The Dragonriders of Pern series is particularly famous for highlighting a pre-industrial community that uses many fire-breathing dragons to defend its land.

McCaffrey died in 2011 after more than twenty books in the Dragonriders series were written. Todd McCaffrey continues to work on the series to this day. It continues to be a popular series and has especially taken on a new life as the Game of Thrones series and other fantasy novels have become rather popular in pop culture in recent time.

Anne McCaffrey Awards

Anne McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo or Nebula Award. Dragonflight, the 1968 novel that started the Dragonriders of Pern series, won both of those awards in that year. Many other books in that series, particularly the White Dragon and All the Weyrs of Pern, were Hugo award finalists.

In 1999, McCaffrey received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association. The award is a lifetime achievement honor given to those who write for young adults and teens. She is also enshrined in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Anne McCaffrey Books Into Movies

The Dragonriders of Pern series had been optioned into production for a film in the past but nothing has come out of it. The series was optioned for an animated television series in 1995 although that show was eventually redeveloped into the series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.

The Dragonriders series has been in development for a while although there are hopes to get a movie released in 2017 or 2018. Sarah Cornwell, an author best known for the book What I Had Before I Had You, has been signed to be the screenwriter for this film.

Best Anne McCaffrey Books

Many of the books that Anne McCaffrey has written are important to the evolution of science fiction and fantasy. Her works have especially been influential in encouraging women to check out the world of science fiction.

Dragonflight: The first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, this 1968 novel takes place on a planet named Pern that lives on an agrarian platform. The people are forced to move after the Thread, a dangerous alien spore, rains down on their old home. This leads to the need for the people of Pern to raise dragons that can breathe fire and will protect the land. The book especially focuses on the strong links that people have to the various dragons that they have raised.

The Dolphins of Pern: The ninth book in the Dragonriders series was released in 1994. This book is about dolphins that are brought onto the planet through colonists. This brings about a need for the people of the land to work together with the dolphins in order to find a common thread between all people. This is to encourage the dolphins and others to work together to save the land.

Dinosaur Planet: This 1978 book is a story that takes place on a planet named Ireta, a planet referred to as the titular dinosaur planet. As a team from another planet visits this land, they look around to find all sorts of dinosaurs who are alive and living together. However, it is unclear as to what has caused many of these dinosaurs to thrive on this planet. To make things worse, a local tribe is out to attack the team as they have begun to explore a taste for blood and vengeance.

When Does The Next Anne McCaffrey book come out?

Anne McCaffrey doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Sky Dragons and was released on December, 1st 2011. It is the newest book in the New Adventures of Pern Series.

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