I devoured the entire series from the box he’d left behind, every book I could get my hands on – and buying new copies of the books so often read that they’d fallen into pieces. After stumbling across the third book in the series in our school library, I discovered a treasure trove of the books in my own garage, heirlooms of my father’s that had been waiting for me since he passed away. I found the series in middle school, back when Eragon had instilled in me a love of dragons that no book series could satisfy. Like many fans, my affection for the series is tainted by nostalgia. (Kaufman and Spooner, incidentally, met in an online forum while sharing their love of the Pern series and have been friends ever since.) But if you can muscle past the problematic elements of the Pern series, you’ll find a series you won’t soon forget. There’s plenty of other sci-fi to delve into-I highly recommend These Broken Stars, where authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner pay incredible homage to the writing style and worldbuilding of McCaffrey within the text while stripping away the problematic elements of her sort of worldbuilding. If that is something you know you can’t read past, stop here. Her work begins with, and subsequently has to overcome, worldbuilding laced with rape culture and homophobia prevalent in popular genre fiction of the 60s. There are no excuses for Pern’s problematic elements, though there are many influences and reasons for them. But before we start talking about where to start with the Pern series, there is something you should know: Pern is problematic. Its sprawling universe of over twenty books, its incredible cast of characters, and its dragons-oh, its dragons!-have attracted a legion of fans over the years.
People read Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series for different reasons.
Where to Start With The Pern Series by Nicole Brinkley For this round, we asked Nicole Brinkley to talk about the beloved Pern series. Originally appearing in the third volume of our Quarterly Almanac, Where to Start with the Pern Series is the part of an ongoing series of essays detailing where one can start with any number of SFF/popgeekery topics.
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