Pern Dragon Colors

IoleRae

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).

Snackness

@Taika That one was my favorite

KarmaBum

@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.

IoleRae

@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.)

Herja

@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…

IoleRae

@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.

Tat

@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.

IoleRae

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)

Pyrephox

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.)

Tat

@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.

tsar

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.

IoleRae

@Tat

That makes sense! Thank you.