Thread (Pern)
Thread (Pern) Thread is the name of a deadly phenomenon ... science-fiction novels about the fictional planet Pern. A Threadfall consists of a rain of ... elliptic orbit, the Red Star picks up Thread from space and when it gets ...
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Pern
Pern For the town in France, see Pern, Lot . Pern is a fictional planet in the universe ... writer Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels. Main article: Dragonriders of Pern Historical synopsis Pern was colonised by ...
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Thread
Thread Look up thread in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word thread has many meanings: A kind of thin ... spun together, for textiles and sewing Screw thread, which turns rotation into linear movement, by ... down the length of a cylinder Topic thread, a string of consecutive message postings ...
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Thread (Concord wiki)
Thread Thread is the term given to an organism brought to Pern by the Red Star from the Oort Cloud. Thread falls upon Pern for a period of 50 years ...
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Pern (Concord wiki)
Pern Pern is the name of the planet where the events of the Pern series of books takes place. The name ... events in Rescue Run , which show that Thread was learned of by the FSP.
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Dragons (Pern)
Dragons (Pern) The Dragons of Pern are a fictional race created by Anne ... fiction world depicted in her Dragonriders of Pern novels. In creating the Pern setting, McCaffrey set out to subvert the ... genetically modified species based on one of Pern's native life-forms, the fire- ...
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Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern Most of the Dragonriders of Pern books were written by Anne McCaffrey. However ... technology. Overview In the books written earlier, Pern is a medieval society with lords, swords ... bred by the early Earth-colonizers of Pern to chew firestone and burn in the air the deadly mycorrhizoid spore Thread that periodically rain down on the ...
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Firestone (Pern)
Firestone (Pern) Firestone is a phosphine bearing rock found on the fictional planet Pern. When chewed by the Pernese dragons, they ... ignite and are used, primarily, for burning Thread out of the air.
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Between (Pern)
Between (Pern) Between in Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series, refers to a dimension through which ... deliberately use this ability to destroy any "Thread" organism which they come in contact with ...
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Mark (Pern)
Mark (Pern) Marks are the fictional currency of the planet Pern, in the novels by Anne McCaffery. Marks ... it should be noted that, due to Thread, wood has traditionally been a scare resource during most of Pern's history), whose value is set by ... found in The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, which will not be repeated here ...
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