![]() ![]() Thread comes from the Red Star, actually another planet. Humans have colonized the planet Pern in the Rukbat star system, but have lost much of their technology and history (including their origin on Earth) due to periodic onslaughts of Thread, a mycorrhizoid spore that voraciously consumes all organic material, including humans and their crops, given the opportunity. ![]() The two novellas included in the first novel, Dragonflight, made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo Award for writing fiction as well as the first to win a Nebula Award. The series (as of 2022) comprises 24 novels and two collections of short stories. Beginning in 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. ![]()
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