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Talents Universe
This is a list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, including some cowritten with others or written by close collaborators. Restoree McCaffrey's first novel was ''Restoree'', published by Ballantine Books in 1967. * '' Restoree'' (1967) Federated Sentient Planets universe Several of McCaffrey's series and more than half her books share as background a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets" or "Federation" or "FSP". Dragonriders of Pern series McCaffrey's most famous works are the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series. Short stories and novellas * "Weyr Search", Analog Magazine, October 1967 (later incorporated into ''Dragonflight'') * "Dragonrider", Analog Magazine – two parts, December 1967/January 1968 (later incorporated into ''Dragonflight'') * "The Smallest Dragonboy", ''Science Fiction Tales'' edited by Roger Elwood (Rand McNally, 1973) reprinted in ''A Gift of Dragons'', and ''Get Off The Unicorn''. * "A Time When", N. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragonsong
''Dragonsong'' is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. Released by Atheneum Books in March 1976, it was the third to appear set on the world Pern of the ''Dragonriders of Pern''. In its time, however, ''Dragonsong'' brought the fictional planet Pern to a new publisher, editor, and target audience of young adults, and soon became the first book in the '' Harper Hall of Pern'' trilogy. The original ''Dragonriders of Pern'' trilogy with Ballantine Books was not completed until after the publication of ''Dragonsong'' and its sequel. ''Dragonsong'' and the second Pern book ''Dragonquest'' are set at the same time, seven years after the end of the seminal ''Dragonflight''—that is, more than 2500 years after human settlement, during the "Ninth Pass" of the Red Star that periodically brings a biological menace from space. Their primary geographical settings are not distant in space yet worlds apart: ''Dragonsong'' in an isolated sea-hold and ''Dragonquest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dolphins' Bell
''The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall'' is a 1993 collection of short fiction by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. All five stories are set on the fictional planet Pern; ''First Fall'' is one of two collections in the science fiction series ''Dragonriders of Pern''. The collection The ''First Fall'' stories are united by the setting: they span a period from before humans arrived and the first few decades of settlement in the southern continent. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star"—an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace, in the form of falling thread. The twelfth ''Dragonriders of Pern'' book, ''First Fall'' shares its early setting only with one previously published book in the series, ''Dragonsdawn'' (1988). McCaffrey places ''Dragonsdawn'' and ''First Fall'' in a perspective of the ancient history of Pern. ''First Fall'' was published simultaneo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazing Stories
''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but ''Amazing'' helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. As of 2018, ''Amazing'' has been published, with some interruptions, for 92 years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors as it struggled to be profitable. Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine in 1929. In 1938 it was purchased by Ziff-Davis, who hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s ''Amazing'' presented as fact stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Fall
''The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall'' is a 1993 collection of short fiction by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. All five stories are set on the fictional planet Pern; ''First Fall'' is one of two collections in the science fiction series ''Dragonriders of Pern''. The collection The ''First Fall'' stories are united by the setting: they span a period from before humans arrived and the first few decades of settlement in the southern continent. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star"—an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace, in the form of falling thread. The twelfth ''Dragonriders of Pern'' book, ''First Fall'' shares its early setting only with one previously published book in the series, ''Dragonsdawn'' (1988). McCaffrey places ''Dragonsdawn'' and ''First Fall'' in a perspective of the ancient history of Pern. ''First Fall'' was published simultaneo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rescue Run
''The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall'' is a 1993 collection of short fiction by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. All five stories are set on the fictional planet Pern; ''First Fall'' is one of two collections in the science fiction series ''Dragonriders of Pern''. The collection The ''First Fall'' stories are united by the setting: they span a period from before humans arrived and the first few decades of settlement in the southern continent. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star"—an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace, in the form of falling thread. The twelfth ''Dragonriders of Pern'' book, ''First Fall'' shares its early setting only with one previously published book in the series, ''Dragonsdawn'' (1988). McCaffrey places ''Dragonsdawn'' and ''First Fall'' in a perspective of the ancient history of Pern. ''First Fall'' was published simultaneo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Weyrs Of Pern
''All the Weyrs of Pern'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. Published in 1991, it was the eleventh book published in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series.. Retrieved 9 October 2011. Plot summary The story follows immediately from the final scene of ''Renegades of Pern'', in which the Admin building from Pern's first generation of colonists is discovered, along with an advanced computer called ''AIVAS'' (Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System), at the Landing site that is being excavated. AIVAS has remained undisturbed since the events of ''Dragonsdawn'' some 2500 years earlier and, in addition to holding a huge volume of stored information long since lost to the Pernese society, claims to be able to eliminate the threat of Thread forever. The Weyrs, led by Lessa and F'lar, enthusiastically embrace this possibility, and with the support of the Holds (led in particular by Jaxom) and the Crafthalls (championed by Masterharper Robinton) pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegades Of Pern
''The Renegades of Pern'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It was the tenth book published in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series.. Retrieved 2011-10-09. It was first published in 1989. Like '' Nerilka's Story'', ''The Renegades of Pern'' is a departure from the normal perspective for the '' Dragonrider'' books, presenting a parallel viewpoint, this time running concurrent with the original trilogy; the book begins at the time of ''Dragonflight'' and ends a little after the ending of '' The White Dragon''. It tells several stories, tied together by the figure of Thella, renegade sister of Larad (Lord Holder of Telgar Hold). The exploration of the Southern Continent and discovery of ancient human relics there (including the activities of Piemur and Menolly from the Harper Hall trilogy) also figure in the novel, which ends where ''All the Weyrs of Pern ''All the Weyrs of Pern'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragonsdawn
''Dragonsdawn'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It was the ninth book published in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series, but chronologically it takes place before any of the other books. It was published in 1988, by Del Rey in the US and Bantam in the UK. UK editions have had various subtitles: ''Dragonsdawn: The First Chronicles of the Colony of Pern'' (Bantam, 1988), ''Dragonsdawn: The earliest legend of Pern'' (Corgi, 1995).http://www.worldcat.org/title/dragonsdawn-the-earliest-legend-of-pern/oclc/312459946?ht=edition&referer=di While the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series is recognized as science fiction (due to its origin discussing the nature of the star Rukbat and its planetary system), many of its elements in the earlier books were primarily fantasy in origin. ''Dragonsdawn establishes the science fiction nature of the series by defining the science behind McCaffrey's dragons. Plot summary The planet Pern seemed a paradise to its ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (novella)
''A Gift Of Dragons'' is a 2002 collection of short fiction by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. All four stories are set on the fictional planet Pern; the book is one of two collections in the science fiction series ''Dragonriders of Pern'' by Anne and her son Todd McCaffrey. The collection The stories are not united by any theme, but three of four are set about 2500 years "After Landing", the beginning of human settlement on Pern. That is just before or during the "Ninth Pass" of the "Red Star", an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace from space. Those three stories therefore share a Pernese historical period with most of the previous books in the series (11 of 16). The seventeenth ''Dragonriders of Pern'' book, ''A Gift of Dragons'' was the last one in the series written by Anne McCaffrey alone, before the entry of her son Todd (see ''Dragon's Kin''). It was published first in the US and four months later in the UK with the same cover art, by De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerilka's Story
''Nerilka's Story'' is a science fiction novella by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. Nerilka's Story became the eighth book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' volume series.. Retrieved 2011-10-09. '' Moreta'' (1983) and its sequel ''Nerilka'' (1985) are companion stories, in that the latter narrates a second perspective on major events of the former. It was the first work in the series following publication of ''The Atlas of Pern'', and so is not covered in the Atlas. Plot summary Taking a different approach from the previous seven books in the series, ''Nerilka's Story'' has a non-dragonrider and non-harper as its major viewpoint character. It is set during the events detailed in '' Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern''. Nerilka is the daughter of a Lord Holder who turns her back on her life in an upper-class family and sets out to fight the disease that threatens to kill all humans on Pern. According to a critic for the ''Chicago Tribune'', Nerilka makes for an "intelligent, reso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragonlady Of Pern
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "''Dragon Lady''", is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (), all-weather intelligence gathering. Lockheed Corporation originally proposed it in 1953, it was approved in 1954, and its first test flight was in 1955. It was flown during the Cold War over the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam War, Vietnam, and Cuba. In 1960, Francis Gary Powers, Gary Powers was 1960 U-2 incident, shot down in a CIA U-2C over the Soviet Union by a surface-to-air missile (SAM). Major Rudolf Anderson, Rudolf Anderson Jr. was shot down in a U-2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. U-2s have taken part in post-Cold War conflicts in War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, and supported several multinational NATO operations. The U-2 has also been used for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
