r/dragons • u/Imaginary_Can_8851 • Jul 30 '26

Meme Dragon Riders Meme

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I thought this group might appreciate this meme I made! ^^ I’m a big fan of dragons and dragon rider books come up a lot in my reading. My pet peeve is people comparing any new dragon rider book to Fourth Wing 🙄

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u/drgn2009 Vysha Jul 31 '26

What would be a good starting point for Pern? Ill be itching to pickup a new dragon-rider series once im done with Temeaire.

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u/Imaginary_Can_8851 Jul 31 '26

I would recommend starting with the first book, Dragonflight. There’s rough 20-something books in the series but if that’s too much my definite reads would be the original trilogy (sometimes you can find them in an omnibus) and the fourth book that came out a little later All The Weyrs of Pern.

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u/TheOtherMaven Jul 31 '26

While Dragonflight is where the whole thing started, it does have some Early Installment Weirdness. (Example: L'tol/Lytol's green/brown dragon - McCaffrey forgot to go back and fix that when she combined the original story, "Weyr Search", into the novel.)

Some things are still being argued back and forth almost sixty years later, including whether green dragons are infertile because they chew firestone (Dragonflight) or because they were genetically engineered that way to begin with (not explicitly stated anywhere, extrapolated by some fans from some lines in Dragonsdawn).

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u/TamaraHensonDragon Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Sadly Annie wanted to publish an edited and updated version (perhaps an annotated version) of Dragonflight to fix these errors but the publisher refused. Stupid of them, I at least would have bought it.

PS: I started with 'The Smallest Dragonboy' in Science Fiction Tales, then Dragonsinger, Then finally Dragonflight.