The People of Pern [Hardcover]

Anne McCaffrey (Author), Robin Wood (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 151 pages
• Publisher: The Donning Company/Publishers; First Edition edition (November 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898656354
• ISBN-13: 978-0898656350
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have volume for McCaffrey fans!, August 30, 2002

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Dawn Smoker (Mechanicsburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The People of Pern (Hardcover)

I cannot praise highly enough this wonderful companion book to Ms. McCaffrey's Pern books. This book is a collection of portraits of the many characters in Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Moreta, and the Harper Hall trilogy.

There are artist renderings of almost every character, from Menolly, Lessa, and F'lar; to C'gan, Dorse, Moreta, even Dunca and Pona are in here! Main characters and minor ones--they are all here, and many are uncannily just as I had pictured them in my head! As a bonus, Ms. McCaffrey supplied little commentaries on each portrait that are fascinating to read.

All the portraits are works of true art, but the masterpiece of the book is the portrait of Robinton! You've got to see it--Robin Wood captures him perfectly! Anyone who loves the Pern books should have this in their collection.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's fun putting a face to some of your fave dragon-people!, April 15, 2000

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This review is from: The People of Pern (Hardcover)

While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I did have a few issues with it. Some of the characters were great, some were....hmmmm! Piemur and F'nor look like total dweebs, Sharra wasn't as "unpretty" as described in "The White Dragon", and Lady Gemma looked way way way too old to be having children. She looked danged near 75 or older! Fax looked properly villanous, while I expected a less portly looking fellow.

However I *loved* the portraits of F'lar and T'gellan! Whatta couple of hunks! While Lytol was a surprise(I always pictured him with a beard and a bit more portly) the artist did capture the look of a "dragonless man" fairly well. Mirrim and Path looked absolutely precious together.

All in all, I'd still say it's worth the effort to track down this out-of-print book!

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't compare to the images of the mind's eye., December 10, 1999

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sgkr (New Hampton, NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The People of Pern (Hardcover)

As a long-standing Pern fan, I asked for this book as a present years ago while it was still in print. I loved it at the time, and still enjoy it thoroughly, but in the end, Robin Wood's images are just that; her interpretation of characters that I had realized in my own mind. Some of her paintings are wonderful, especially the portrait of Mirrim and Path, and it was fun to try to identify some of her source material, such as her 'American Gothic' rendition of Menolly's parents. Her portrait of Lessa... well, that one I didn't agree with at all. She looks like a pinched old woman with a needle-like chin, incongruously paired with shockingly black hair. A book for true fans only.