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    • TaikaT
      Taika @IoleRae
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      I can’t remember the name of the books for the life of me. The pern books are spin-off/continuation of a sci-fi series McCaffrey did and it covered how they turned fire lizards into dragons. My gramma used to have all the books for the sci-fi side - she loved sci-fi and never got into the fantasty side.

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      • IoleRaeI
        IoleRae @Taika
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        @Taika

        Dragonsdawn was the book you’re referring to; it covers the original landing on Pern, the charter, the initial crisis, and the creation of the dragons. It was a prequel, written after many of the other Pern books.

        Pern is technically in the same universe as The Tower and Hive series (The Rowen being the most well known) and the Crystal Singer series, but they’re soooooooooo far away and basically off the star maps that it’s irrelevant. The rules for psionics and the weird genetics and the like are the same between the three series, but the sun of the Pern series (Rukhbat or w/e, I can’t spell it) being mentioned in the other two in passing is the only DIRECT connection (unless Todd McCaffery has done something more with it over the years).

        the entity previously known as Sunny

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        • SnacknessS
          Snackness @Taika
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          @Taika That one was my favorite

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          • KarmaBumK
            KarmaBum @Taika
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            @Taika I think they’re also technically a spinoff of the ‘talent’ series. These weird books.

            I cannot remember anything about those ones, except that the psychic powers of the heroine in the first Pern book definitely crossed over with all these.

            I was not a fan of the sci-fi aspects. I like the peasants and flaming dragons parts.

            On Dragon Wings · https://pern.gaslightswitch.com · pern.gaslightswitch.com port 4201

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            • IoleRaeI
              IoleRae @KarmaBum
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              @KarmaBum

              I really have to admire the internal consistency of her “science” though; she did a pretty decent job with consistency compared to a lot of authors, even with as bleeding stupid as some of it was. (Time travel worked the same across her whole universe, for example.)

              the entity previously known as Sunny

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              • HerjaH
                Herja @IoleRae
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                @IoleRae The Tower and Hive series is one of my favorite sci-fi series. I’m not sure it would make such a great MUSH given how spaced out everything and everyone would be if everyone were playing Primes… but then again, you could just set the game in a station, the Prime is an NPC, and all the PCs are those who work at the station…

                lol lmao

                It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me

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                • IoleRaeI
                  IoleRae @Herja
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                  @Herja said in Pern Dragon Colors:

                  @IoleRae The Tower and Hive series is one of my favorite sci-fi series. I’m not sure it would make such a great MUSH given how spaced out everything and everyone would be if everyone were playing Primes… but then again, you could just set the game in a station, the Prime is an NPC, and all the PCs are those who work at the station…

                  …I bet one could make it work. 😄 Honestly I think it would be incredible. Her worldbuilding work lends REALLY well to the sorts of storytelling that we do on games, and it would be nice to see a different flavor of Scifi.

                  the entity previously known as Sunny

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                  • TatT
                    Tat @KarmaBum
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                    @KarmaBum said in Pern Dragon Colors:

                    I think they’re also technically a spinoff of the ‘talent’ series. These weird books.

                    I loved those books, and the Rowan series. I read them many, many times.

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                    • IoleRaeI
                      IoleRae
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                      Aaaaugh okay I’m sorry I am just being pedantic but

                      Talent = Rowen Series = The Hive and the Tower

                      It’s all the same series of books 😄

                      AND THEY ARE REALLY GOOD

                      Except kind of rapey in parts -.- I don’t recall it being GRAPHIC, but there’s some telepathic/psionic stuff that people should be aware of going in for triggering purposes. If you’ve read Pern stuff, it’s not…much worse than the dragonflights.

                      (hey neat, I read these books in the years my brain DOESN’T have holes in)

                      the entity previously known as Sunny

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                      • P
                        Pyrephox Administrators
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                        God, I loved the Tower and Hive books. And, for that matter, the Brain and Brawn books. And the Crystal Singer books. (And, yes, the Pern books - although mostly the first two books of the Dragonsinger trilogy and Dragonsdawn.)

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                        • TatT
                          Tat @IoleRae
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                          @IoleRae said in Pern Dragon Colors:

                          It’s all the same series of books

                          They are all set in the same world and maybe they’ve been smooshed together as ‘one series’ now, but they were published all mishmash, as a’prequel’ series and series.

                          In fact, most places seem to list ‘The Tower and the Hive’ specifically as ‘the Rowan books’ (I mean, the later books aren’t about Rowan, I’d just forgotten what the series was called), and the whole batch ‘The Talent Universe’. I don’t think they’re really a coherent ‘series’ by usual standards.

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                          • tsarT
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                            I really liked the Catteni series when I was in HS, but I’m not sure it would hold up to the test of time now. Also full of all the same predictably questionable stuff Anne McCaffrey is known for.

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                            • IoleRaeI
                              IoleRae @Tat
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                              @Tat

                              That makes sense! Thank you.

                              the entity previously known as Sunny

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