(Anne McAffrey)
The first set of books (Dragonflight, Dragonquest and The White Dragon) is set long after the planet was colonised - Pern has degenerated into a feudal set of states and the dragon weyrs are in disrepair. A pair of dragonriders, F'lar and Lessa, have to fight to restore the dragons to the sky before Pern is engulfed in Thread. In parallel to these stories is a series ( Dragonsinger, Dragonsong, Dragondrums) that deals with an apprentice musician, Menolly, and her fire lizards (miniature dragons). Further stories (The Renegades of Pern, and All the Weyrs of Pern and The Skies of Pern) follow on from these stories as the Dragonriders find out more about the world in which they live and the original colonists. Finally, The MasterHarper of Pern is a prequel to Dragonflight, written from the perspective of Robinton, the masterharper who appears in all the other stories.
Set further back in time in between the colonisation and the time of F'lar and Lessa is Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern.
Finally, there are a set of stories set around the time of the colonisation of Pern (Dragonsdawn, The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, The Dolphins of Pern, Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern) - these are much more science fiction in flavour, but are good background if you enjoyed the other stories..
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