Anne McCaffrey is the writer/author who created Pern. The word “Pern” means “spindle” or “bobbin,” a fictional planet in the universe or her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels. Anne McCaffrey was born April 1, 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy. McCaffrey’s most famous works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. These are set on an Earth colony which has reverted to medieval times but also produced dragons. These dragons are flown by elite “dragonriders” who communicate telepathically with their dragons, and defend Pern against pernicious “threads” which cross space periodically from a nearby planetoid and threaten to destroy all vegetation on Pern.

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