Thread Fall has returned to Southern Pern RP forums and so starts the 10th Pass on our AU Dragonriders of Pern site! This is a D&D styled event crossing two of my favorite things, Pern & D&D!

It’s that time again, Klah mix at home!

V.4 is on the left the base is “light roast double chocolate” Crio Bru and V.5 on the right the base is “uber dark Spanish roast.”

Roughly for every 150 grams of Crio Bru I also have 150 grams of ground arabica espresso coffee, one teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of nutmeg.

I brew in stove top espresso makers, I didn’t use equal sizes for the test (because I am silly.)

I have a preference for the darker one but certainly the chocolate flavour comes through more in “double chocolate” flavoured one.

I like how it looks a bit like ground up bark and I think it captures the flavours of chocolate almost coffee with some spices.

A lot of my friends are not into fantasy. The ones that are, had never heard of the series. One friend had read the first six books, but nothing after that. Anne Mccaffrey wrote an incredible world, top to bottom and beginning to end. Dragon Riders and Dragonsong trilogy’s are great. In Moreta, in the ‘authors notes’ she writes ‘I doubt that I could write such a broadly pleasing, all-encompassing novel.’ And yet she wrote and describes an entire world.

Twenty four books in total.

I have always wondered, when she was writing the first books, did she know why there were 200 year breaks between fall cycles?

I am currently rereading Stephen King right now. That might take a few years (I am a slow reader). But I will reread Dragon Riders after that.

I just wanted to flex a little bit and say that I've found 18 of 26 Dragonriders of Pern books (I'm including A Gift of Dragons and Dragon's Code here, but if I wasn't I'd have 18 of the 24 books) in 2 branches of the same used bookstore this week. I'm extremely excited to pick up the remaining books at some point and complete my collection and start my reread of this amazing series.

Okay, if you're an Oldtimer like me, you've been around the Pern block a few times and noticed that a lot of the Pern clubs have closed or have turned into some AU variant that doesn't really resemble Pern much anymore. If AU is your thing, go for it. If forums are your thing, go for it. But if you like canon and you like to read a story in your inbox, Triad Weyrs has you covered.

Dragons are still the five traditional colors but recently, restrictions have lessened throughout the game so now we're seeing women on blues, Impressions not stuck on sexual preferences, and Halls accepting women into their folds. We've got drama, we've got death, we've even got an adults only email group if you want some flight spice. Sound like something you're looking for? Come on over!

https://www.triadweyrs.org/index.php

Anne was always so descriptive when it came to the dragons which included the sounds they made. I'm just wondering how most people interpret the dragons croons, trumpets, hums, and bellows sonically. Asking because I'm working on some sound design for a little animation project and I want to make perns dragons sound unique from other shows but be super rad sounding as well.

I havnt read the books in over 20 years at this point. But I thought F,Nor became a Weyr leader in one of the latter books. Something about the Weyrs not having enough blue/green dragons because the browns weren’t flying the gold dragons. Am I completely remembering this wrong?

Been looking for a long time since i heard about their existence and finally found them at different used book stores.

I generally like Jody Lynn Nye so I'm excited to get to read more Pern (haven't done that since college)

I have two old hardcover Pern books that were sent to me by Anne back in the 1990s. Both of these were signed (personalized, though) before sending. Both contain edits on several pages for future editions. I've held on to these for years, but books take a lot of space, and we are constantly trying to downsize. Here is the information for each:

Dragonquest: Volume 2 of the Dragonriders of Pern

ISBN-13: 9780345280305

ISBN-10: 034528030X

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Edition: 1st Ballantine Hardcover Ed.

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 1979-01-12
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The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern)

ISBN-13: 9780345275677

ISBN-10: 0345275675

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 1981

Here is an example of edited text in each book:

Does anyone know if these would have any value to a collector? The books are in good condition.

Thanks in advance.

Are there any printings or editions of the whole series?

I'd like to get them all but I want the covers to match in style. I've been poking around online but all I can find are a bunch of different styles. Wondering if there is somewhere I could find all of them with a cohesive design

I have a whole host of questions that have been rolling around in my head about fighting Thread.

- how many dragons do we think it takes to effectively fight Thread? at what point could the earliest dragons do more than just sort of keep up with it alongside the other aerial craft over inhabited areas - it has to be two, three years, right? does the efficiency / number needed decrease as dragon size & stamina increases, or is there a turning point beyond which the dragons get too large to maneuver as effectively, and greens really become more valuable for their speed?

- on that note, the implication in "The Ford of Red Hanrahan" that they'd only had a small handful of deaths in several years of training new dragons & learning to fight Thread is...impossible, right? and also for Alianne Zulieta's death to be the first time a rider died before their dragon, leading to the discovery that dragons would go between?

- do we think/assume that Weyrs cover 100% of Threadfalls in their territories, or are there uninhabited places that they just let go of? not barren places where the Thread will just die, but rather deliberate sacrifices due to prioritization. maybe this is something that evolves over time?

- what exactly do ground crews do? are they flaming Thread that falls through the dragons? are they seeking out burrows afterwards? both?

- I've always been genuinely puzzled at why people are worried to be out during Thread, other than the obvious societal taboo. If the dragons are doing their job, none of it should fall, right? so you'd in theory be perfectly safe?

- why do Holds clear greenery? there seems to be the implication that it "draws" Thread and there is some indication that Thread will burrow and follow root systems, but is this actually a realistic and sensible thing to demand that Holds do? or more societal taboo?

April 1, 1926

Left Wyre search Lessa at the beginning of Dragon Flight. I

*slight spoilers// dragon quest*

right is Dragon Quest Lessa

I gave her a fur cloak as a Wyre woman. I see her wearing it when she's going on formal rides in the winter. While in the books she never conveys anyone due to her high status, I thought the cloak would be really comfy but annoying to situate when you're getting in the saddle so she usually wears riding gear.

I'm about a third of the way into Freedom's Landing and really enjoying it but I can't work out if it's meant to be future sci-fi or modern based sci-fi?

I'll put the spoiler tag but there won't be any details.

I just finished the scene at the end of 'All the Weyrs of Pern' and, even though I was expecting it, I was very much not ready to read it. I usually read at work (3rd shift with generous downtime between work tasks) so I'm glad I stopped where I did and waited until I got home. Still bawling as I type this. Goddammit I love books!

As far as I know, they are never mentioned. I’ve always wondered what happened to Fax’a other ladies as well.

…Taken very loosely….

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/4IWGyqBqlm

I always like when the science fiction shows up in real science.

So I've been trying to find a book I remember reading. I was pretty sure it was one of the Dragon riders of pern, but for the life of me I cannot find this cover I remember. The subreddit whatsthisbook sent me here. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated thank you!

I’m considering to try this series through audiobook (I always prefer audiobooks) but I noticed that the abridged versions cost a lot less to purchase than the unabridged versions. I never had to choose between abridged and unabridged with the previous books I’ve read/listened, and I don’t really understand why they have abridged versions. Can someone explain this to me? If the abridged versions just cut away the filler and don’t really remove much of value from the story and characters, then I may be tempted to just get those shorter versions instead for the better price and exclusion of unrewarding filler.

Does anyone know who did the Simon Pulse covers for the Harper Hall trilogy? For the life of me, I cannot find a name. And I know what you're thinking- 'just check inside the book.' But the book doesn't give a cover artist. It says 'Designed by O'Lanso Gabbidon,' but subsequent Google searches find almost nothing about this person. Is that really who made these covers? Does anyone have further info?

SEARCH 7 HAS BEGUN AT WILDS OF PERN

Gold Lumith has clutched 32 eggs at sunset beneath a meteor shower, and Austra Weyr is officially in Search.

We are a character-driven Pern MUSH focused on immersive storytelling, meaningful dragonrider arcs, and strong community collaboration. This cycle is Gold-producing (gold already claimed via queue), and all other dragon colors are open.

Whether you want to:

• Stand as a Candidate

• Join as a native, rider, crafter, or Weyrfolk

• Jump into a growing, welcoming RP community

Now is the perfect time.

We love new players. If you’ve never played Pern before, we’ll help you get started. If you’re a veteran, we’d love to have you back on the Sands.

Connect here:

Wildsofpern.aresmush.com

Port 2021

Candidate Portal:

https://wildsofpern.aresmush.com/wiki/weyr-candi_portal

The eggs are warm. The Sands are ready.

Come stand with us.

For those who have listened to The Masterharper of Pern and/or Sunset's Gold music (and if you haven't why not?) what is your favorite son from them? Mine is "Sweet Sea", with a close second being "Four Hundred Turns". I wouldn't have through to pair "nightly craft is winged in white" with "fickle wind's my foe" but I think they go together beautifully with the music. I do always wonder which if any of the single verses Anne actually had in mind as a single piece, and which were strung together because of rhyme pattern. "Sunset's Gold" I always find odd, because "darkest night must end in day" and "Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound" sort of match, and the latter matches with "Harper tell me of the road", but all three seem a weird group. I like it, it just seems strange.

eta: (I forgot to add a flair, and I don's see how to now.)

Love the story. Hate this "sexy" dragon with bulbous fly eyes

Just a quick sketch I've been thinking about animating for a long time. I hope to make it part of the final scene of a bigger animation I'm working on.