Dragon's Kin
core novel 2003 Dragonriders of Pern
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.99 (11,103 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345461988 |
Synopsis
Dragon's Kin, co-written by Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey, opens at Camp Natalon, a mining settlement roughly five hundred years after Pern's original colonization, in the years just before the return of Thread known as the Third Pass. After a cave-in kills his father and destroys his family's watch-wher, a nocturnal, dragon-like creature bonded to Pernese households, young Kindan is left without a place in the camp until camp leader Natalon and the traveling Master Harper Zist take an interest in him. When Natalon's own watch-wher produces an egg, Kindan is drawn into the unfamiliar task of raising and training the creature, with unexpected help from the reclusive Nuella, all while simmering tensions between Natalon and his uncle Tarik strain the camp's fragile stability.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dragonriders of Pern
- Series: Dragonriders of Pern: the Third Pass era core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anne McCaffrey
- Author: Todd McCaffrey
Notes
- From the series record (Dragonriders of Pern: the Third Pass era): 5 novels co-credited 'Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey' on their original editions, set in the 'Third Pass' prequel era (~500 AL). Sky Dragons (2012) was completed and published after Anne McCaffrey's November 2011 death but retains joint credit as the concluding volume of a collaborative project begun while she was alive.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Dragonriders of Pern: the Third Pass era: position 1 of 5: next Dragon's Fire (2006)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pern_books
- https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pern_series
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_McCaffrey
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Kin
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