In January I was looking for something to read, and I decided to read Anne and Todd McCaffrey’s Pern novels (in italics) and short stories (in quotation marks) in chronological order according to the order in which they occurred on Pern not the order in which they were written. I found two lists (one by Anne McCaffrey and one by Cheryl B. Miller) that I’ve combined and updated to give the following order**:
- “The Survey: P.E.R.N.” (in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall)
- Dragonsdawn
- “The Dolphins’ Bell” (in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall)
- “The Ford of Red Hanrahan” (in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall)
- “The Second Weyr” (in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall)
- “Rescue Run” (in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall)
- Dragonseye (apparently published as Red Star Rising in the U.K.)
- “Ever the Twain” (in A Gift of Dragons)
- Dragon’s Kin
- Dragon’s Fire
- Dragon Harper
- Dragonsblood
- Dragonheart
- Dragongirl
- Dragon’s Time
- Sky Dragons
- Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
- “Beyond Between” (source unknown)
- Nerilka’s Story
- Masterharper of Pern
- Dragonflight
- Dragonquest
- Dragonsong
- “The Impression” (source unknown)
- “The Smallest Dragonboy” (in A Gift of Dragons)
- Dragonsinger
- Dragondrums
- The White Dragon
- “The Girl Who Heard Dragons” (in A Gift of Dragons)
- Renegades of Pern
- All the Weyrs of Pern
- The Dolphins of Pern
- “Runner of Pern” (in A Gift of Dragons)
- The Skies of Pern
I’ve read through Dragon Harper, and as I mentioned in a post last week, I started (re)reading Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels as well. I want to drag out the Pern novels, so I can read Dragongirl in the right order when it is released.
* updated August 9, 2010
** list updated on December 20, 2010
