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Lessa escaped her family's massacre because she hid in the watch-wher's den. According to the books, Lessa was 11 turns (years) old at the time of the attack, although in DragonFlight, F'lar guesses she could not have been over 10 years old at the time. Lessa was already headstrong and independent.
In the first Pern novel, Dragonflight, Lessa passes out after having travelled back more than four hundred Turns. The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern states that dragons defecate while between. This idea originated with a statement by Anne McCaffrey herself, in answer to a fan's question about the subject at a con. However, McCaffrey may have been ...
Dragonflight is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. First published by Ballantine Books in July 1968, it was a fix-up of two novellas which between them had made McCaffrey the first woman writer to win a Hugo and a Nebula Award .
In 1991, Dragonflight, the first Pern book published, was released as a set of three graphic novels by Eclipse Books of Forestville, California. The story was adapted across all three graphic novels by Brynne Stephens. The first two graphic novels were illustrated by Lela Dowling and Fred Von Tobel, the third by Lela Dowling and Cynthia Martin. [7]
The Masterharper of Pern (1998) – set 55 years before the Pass until the first part of Dragonflight "Runner of Pern" (1998) – novella later collected in A Gift of Dragons; Dragonflight (1968) – first novel written, a fix-up of two previously published stories "Weyr Search" "Dragonrider" Dragonquest (1970)
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) [2] [3] was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969).
Dragonflight may refer to: Dragonflight, a 1968 science-fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey; Dragonflight (convention), a gaming convention established in 1980;
Dragonflight raised the level cap to 70, the first increase since the level squish in Shadowlands. [4] Dragonflight also features a revamp of the user interface and talent tree systems, [1] [4] with two tree branches. [5] Dragonflight includes a new playable race, the Dracthyr, and a new class, the Evoker. The two are combined: Evokers are ...