I just don't get how book critics were slobbing on his knob going 'oh man this is the same Pern' when it's not even close. Anne's pern was fairly light, and she tended to gloss over the details of a fall. You got the impression that it wasexceptionallyrare for a dragon or rider to die to thread score. Honestly, aside from all the implied nastiness about Fax, the darkest things she ever wrote were F'lon getting murdered, and F'lessan and Golanth getting crippled, and you knew F'lon was gonna die at some point in the book since it was previously established that he died in a gather brawl.
I figured gays would love Dragonriders of Pern, seeing as how a significant portion of the world's heroes are gay or bisexual.
Renly and Loras!
Teleporting to an orbiting spaceship happens in All the Weyrs of Pern iirc. It happens shortly after they reactivate AIVAS. The jumping back to bring dragonriders forward is probably from the very first book, when Lessa goes back 400 years to bring back the oldtimers to repopulate the empty weyrs. She takes one long trip 400 years back and almost dies from the stress/oxygen deprivation, so they take a bunch of short 25 year hops forward to get back.
No it's one of the later books, written with Todd or just by him. Not important.
Well it was only the third pass during Turd McCaffrey's books so they couldn't go that far back. But yes, it's not important because his books sucked.
They're still pretty good as an adult, but you can see a lot more of the organizational craft that went into writing them. The White Dragon is actually much BETTER as an adult. That, I think, was the book McCaffery wanted to write.
