Pern Image Room

Welcome to the Pern Room of the Image Gallery Wing. For those guests not familiar with the world of Pern, it is a creation of the vivid imagination of Anne McCafferey. A group of people from Earth left to settle Pern in an attempt to return to the "good old days." It would be a mostly agricultural, self sustaining colony. However, due to the menace of Thread, a non-sentient organism that destroyed everything organic in it's path, they were forced to find drastic measures to combat it. Through genetic engineering, they created fire-breathing dragons in order to destroy the Thread while it was still in the air. Most of the books take place generations after the colonists have landed, and the people of Pern have no memory of their former home of Earth or the menace of Thread.