You can probably find these for free at your local library.if anyone is interested the first 3 dragonrider books are avail(dragonflight/dragonquest/the white dragon) for 2 bucks @ B&N and amazon
i have not read them in years but...for the price, getting them
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.Bradley is the same way. Her Darkovers are fun. The ones that she let her brother/fans write... not as much.
If you like pern and haven't read Darkover, DO EET FAGGET. They're totally not close to the same thing, but if you like one you'll probably like the other.
I figured gays would love Dragonriders of Pern, seeing as how a significant portion of the world's heroes are gay or bisexual.I remember reading about the Dragons of Pern by Anne McCraffrey in elementary and middle school. I was obsessed with them. I hated the third book though.
Renly and Loras!We're not talking about high literature. We're talking about relatively light fantasy. When a dude writes gay characters in light fantasy they turn out to be pedophiles or corpse fuckers. DARKEN RAAAAAAHL. Or if he's gay himself they turn out to be these ridiculous sorts of characters.
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.Renly and Loras!
I find that's actually the type you get a lot, where the character is quietly gay. Which makes sense since they're generally living in these generic macho medieval type settings.
As for Dragonriders of Pern, I'm not sure the last one I read. I remember one of them teleporting to a spaceship/satellite, and I think one after that where it was the constant jumping back and forth in time to bring dragonriders from millennia ago to replace dead ones.
I read another from McCaffery once, Dinosaur Planet or something like that. Was about on par with the Pern books. Good mix of sci-fi and caveman type shit.
No it's one of the later books, written with Todd or just by him. Not important.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.
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.No it's one of the later books, written with Todd or just by him. Not important.
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.Loras vs Ringil ?
Dragonflightwas my first Fantasy book ever, and read a lot of the series... not sure I want to ruin that memory by reading these as an adult.