Word: pern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slavic languages and literatures concentrator, the closest McCaffrey came to science fiction was using a Slavic science-fiction book in her honors thesis. Now she is the author of the wildly popular Dragonriders of Pern series, and has written a total of 55 books and more than 60 short stories...
...feminist theme continues throughout McCaffrey's work, even in her tales of dragons and the fantastical planet Pern...
...Pern, an acronym for Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, is a planet whose residents arrived from Earth many generations before and have reverted to a medieval lifestyle, losing their knowledge and understanding of advances such as computers. Fire-breathing dragons flourish on the planet, genetically engineered by the first settlers of Pern to combat the dreaded Thread--a corrosive substance that threatens Pernese existence every 200 years...
...just had to decide what kind of a dragon I wanted and what it was for," she says. "You can't just plant a new creature down on a new planet without establishing a niche for it." Fighting the Thread with fire become her dragons' niche on Pern...
Current plans for her work include making a live television series out of her Dragonriders of Pern books, including the Walt Disney Co. in 1969. However, McCaffrey wanted live action rather than animation, which most companies believed would be too expensive...