Title The Smallest Dragonboy Author Anne McCaffrey Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing 1973
	Title The Girl who Heard Dragons Author Anne McCaffrey Cover Art Tom Kidd Publisher Ballantine Del Rey - 2002 First Printing 1985
	Title Runner of Pern Author Anne McCaffrey Cover Art --- Publisher Tor - 1998 First Printing Tor - 1998
	Title Ever the Twain Author Anne McCaffrey Cover Art Tom Kidd Publisher Ballantine Del Rey - 2002 First Printing Ballantine Del Rey - 2002
	Title Beyond Between Author Anne McCaffrey Cover Art --- Publisher Voyager - 2003 First Printing Del Rey - 2003
	Category Science Fiction Warnings None Main Characters Keevan, Tenna, Moretta, Aramina, Neru, Nian Main Elements Dragons Website ---

The Smallest Dragonboy

The Girl Who Heard Dragons

Runner of Pern

Beyond Between

I've only been able to get my hands on three of the stories (The Smallest Dragonboy is available for free online) though I'm still on a lookout to get the other two, if I'm lucky it will be before the end of the year so I can claim to have read the entire series!

The Smallest Dragonboy - If you are a fan of Impression scenes, then you'll love this one. Somehow, I find it doesn't convey well in words, so I don't enjoy reading those scenes as much. Not saying I wouldn't want to be present for a real Impression, I just find that text format can't convey the scene as well as say a video could. Otherwise a fairly moralistic story of a boy almost too young to be a candidate, who gets picked on by a bully, and a bully who gets what he deserves, and the boy gets a dragon (I doubt it's a spoiler to say he gets a bronze since throughout the series, any character we focus on always gets a bronze).

Runner of Pern - I enjoyed this one a lot. There are so many parts to the Pernese culture and here we get to learn about Runners (the people, not the equine descendents). Interesting lifestyle as well as interesting story. I recommend hunting this one down to see a part of Pern we haven't explored before.

Beyond Between - So, when a dragon and rider go between and doesn't come back out, where do they go? Moretta, riding Leri's Holth instead of her own Orlith finds out. Frankly, this story was very weird, and really didn't fit into the Pern mythos. The Pernese are not religious and here we're talking of afterlife and ghosts and even meet up with a surprise character from even further in the past. I mean, one does have to wonder what between really is, but I'm not convinced that it is what is presented here.

The Girl Who Heard Dragons - turns out a library nearby that I cannot join but of course can still visit had the book A Gift of Dragons so I was able to finally read this story. I already knew about Aramina and her ability to hear dragons from when she first shows up in Renegades of Pern. In this short story we see those same events from her point of view. I found it didn't add that much to the overall storyline of Pern, though I do enjoy dragon thoughts so it is always fun to hear those.