Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern  
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Whelan cover of Del Rey editions[a]
Author(s) Anne McCaffrey
Cover artist Michael Whelan
Steve Weston (UK)
Country United States
Language English
Series Dragonriders of Pern
Genre(s) Science Fiction novel
Publisher Del Rey/Ballantine
Publication date November 1983 (US)
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 286 pp (first US hardcover)
ISBN ISBN 0-345-29874-8
OCLC Number 9441838
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19
LC Classification PS3563.A255 M6 1983
Preceded by Dragondrums
Followed by Nerilka's Story

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern is a fantasy or science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It was the seventh book published in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey.[1]

With this book, McCaffrey jumped 1000 years back in Pern history from the setting of the first book, Dragonflight, to a time memorialized in song and rendered legendary from the standpoint of the previous books.

Contents

Plot summary

The story involves a deadly disease that nearly wipes out the Pernese population. Moreta is a weyrwoman at Fort Weyr who sets out to save the human population, racing against time itself. The follow-up novel, Nerilka's Story, tells the tale of the same event, from a different perspective.

Themes

It addresses such issues as quarantine, public response to emergency restrictions on travel and assembly, and also describes how "modern" forms of transportation, especially air travel, can spread a disease worldwide during its incubation period, allowing the disease to spread far more widely before pathologists are able to recognize the magnitude of the outbreak.

Chronology

Moreta was the last Pern book published before The Atlas of Pern (1984), a companion book prepared by Karen Wynn Fonstad in consultation with McCaffrey. As such Moreta's geographical settings from peninsulas to stables are illustrated by maps and other drawings and its chronology is explicitly presented in the Atlas.

Awards

Moreta was one of five nominees for the annual Hugo Award for Best Novel and it placed sixth for the annual Locus Award for Best Novel.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists Michael Whelan cover artist for numerous US editions, all except Apr 2005 SFBC Paul Youll; no listing for the first UK edition, thereafter Steve Weston (UK).

References

  1. ^ Dragonriders of Pern series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  2. ^ Anne McCaffrey. Locus Index to SF Awards. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
    • The awards are voted by paying participants in the World Science Fiction Convention and by Locus magazine readers, respectively. From any Locus Index entry, select the award name for details of the annual result; then select "About" for general information about the award.

External links

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database


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The Dragonriders of Pern trilogy
The Harper Hall trilogy
Other novels
Short Story Collections
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall · A Gift of Dragons
Other publications
Legends ("Runner of Pern" novella) · Legends II ("Beyond Between" short story)
Novels with Todd McCaffrey
Novels by Todd McCaffrey
Companion books
The Atlas of Pern by Karen Wynn Fonstad · People of Pern by Robin Wood and Anne McCaffrey · Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey · Characters in Dragonriders of Pern


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