Dragonflight
core novel 1968 Dragonriders of Pern
Record
| First published | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (145,357 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345284266 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Dragonriders of Pern
- Series: The Dragonriders of Pern (original trilogy) core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anne McCaffrey
Awards (verified)
- Hugo Award (Best Novella), 1968: won; For the constituent novella 'Weyr Search'; a rare TIE with Philip José Farmer's 'Riders of the Purple Wage'; this tie made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction.
- Nebula Award (Best Novella), 1968: won; For the constituent novella 'Dragonrider' (SFWA labels this the 1968 award, for 1967-eligible work); this made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Nebula Award.
- Nebula Award (Best Novella), 1968: nominated; For the constituent novella 'Weyr Search', nominated separately from 'Dragonrider' (which won).
- Hugo Award (Best Novella), 1969: nominated; For the constituent novella 'Dragonrider'; lost to Robert Silverberg's 'Nightwings'.
Notes
- From the series record (The Dragonriders of Pern (original trilogy)): Dragonflight is a fixup of two Analog novellas, 'Weyr Search' (Oct 1967) and 'Dragonrider' (Dec 1967/Jan 1968), both individually award-recognized (see Awards).
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 The Dragonriders of Pern (original trilogy): position 1 of 3: next Dragonquest (1971)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pern_books
- https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pern_series
- https://www.thehugoawards.org
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org
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