Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern book series has garnered generations of fans. Now it’s about to be translated for the screen by the screenwriter for Watchmen and X2, David Hayter. According to ...

“Dragonflight,” the first in the series of novels, follows an elite group of warriors who take to the skies on the backs of giant, fire-breathing, telepathic dragons to save the wondrously exotic ...

Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey has died. She was 85 and died at her home in Ireland after a stroke on Nov. 21, according to Del Rey Books and Random House. The science fiction and fantasy ...

The writer launched the series in 1967, working with her son Todd on the more recent instalments before her death in 2011. The series is set on the planet Pern, where human settlers form telepathic ...