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	Pern
		Pern is a fictional planet in the universe created by science fiction writer Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels.
		Pern was colonised by settlers from Earth who wanted to return to an agrarian society with a low level of technology.
		Pern is subject to periodic attack from space by the destructive thread, a spaceborn spore that destroys everything organic it touches.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pern.html (164 words)

	If You are New to Pern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pern is the planet featured in the Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction novels written by author Anne McCaffrey.
		When humans first landed on Pern to colonize it and discovered the dangers of Thread, they bio-engineered dragons to combat it and trained people to work with the dragons.
		This is due in part to periodic plagues, which hamper the spread of knowledge, and to the scarcity of metal ore on Pern.
	4dw.net /aerden/theran/new.html (582 words)

	CT Pern Block
		Pern had the breathable air, greenery and clear blue skies to attract humans to colonise the planet and soon two large space ships carrying six thousand colonists, were sent to colonise the planet.
		Pern was a dream planet, but it soon revealed its terrors and the reasons for the strange barren grass circles became evident.
		Thus the Chronicles of the Dragonriders of Pern began.
	www.pogopus.com /kaylinq/ctpern/intro.htm (937 words)

	Dragonriders of Pern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pern at first glance appears to be a pre-industrial society with lords, holds, harpers (musicians, entertainers, and teachers), and dragons, with the occasional examples of higher technology (like flamethrowers, telegraph, chemical fertilizers, and powerful microscopes and telescopes).
		The agrarian idealism of Pern, however, is marred by the constant reality of the Thread.
		Pern created an interesting example in that it is an agrarian society portrayed without a considerable organized religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern (2497 words)

	PERN NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PERN is a dedicated Educational Network for Public/Private Sector chartered Universities/Degree awarding institutes registered with the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan.
		Under PERN Internet facility to Public/Private Sector chartered Universities/Degree awarding institutes registered with the Higher Education Commission and Government of Pakistan has also been provided.
		PERN also provides access platform for the interconnection of Universities/Educational Institutions with the Virtual University.
	www.pern.edu.pk /home/pern_59_universities.htm (465 words)

	Welcome to PERN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PERN - Pakistan Education and Research Network is a nationwide educational intranet connecting premiere educational and research institutions of the country.
		PERN focuses on collaborative research, knowledge sharing, resource sharing, and distance learning by connecting people through the use of Intranet and Internet resources.
		PERN has become a Primary Member of APAN
	www.pern.edu.pk (89 words)

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		Maybe the most distinctive trait of Pern Dragons (and fire-lizards as well) is their ability to teleport from a point to another by transfering in between (a lightless, gravityless, warmless non-place).
		Lords Holders are in charge of the biggest, most influent Holds of Pern, and have the responsability to organize all the minor holds in their area.
		She can make so many characters alive, different and interesting in all the times of Pern and all the parts of its society, that you really feel like there are people out there, each having his or her place, or struggling to find it.
	membres.lycos.fr /hiyami/library/pern.htm (2336 words)

	Przedsiębiorstwo Eksploatacji Rurociągów Naftowych PRZYJAŹŃ Spółka Spółka Akcyjna
		The mission of PERN Przyjazn SA is to build up the position of a leader on the home oil transport and storage market.
		Today in the morning, PERN „Przyjaźń” SA obtained the letter from Belarusian pipeline company Gomeltransneft, informing that the reason of crude oil supplies suspension by Belarus was the disruption of pumping by Russian side.
		The Board of PERN „Przyjaźń” SA obtained the letter addressed to the Minister of Treasury informing about the abandonment of the warning strike planned for today – 6th December 2006 – by The Inter-Union Strike Committee.
	www.pern.com.pl /index.php?lang_id=2 (144 words)

	AMCF Bibliography - Dragonriders of Pern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As anyone knows who has been touched by the storytelling magic of Anne McCaffrey, to read of the exotic world of Pern is to inhabit it-and to experience its extraordinary dragons is to soar aloft with them and share their dazzling adventures.
		The "Runner of Pern" is a girl named Tenna, who follows family tradition by delivering messages-and who will find her destiny on the mossy traces that runners have used for centuries under the dragon-filled sky.
		With Threadfall looming closer, Pern is in mortal danger, for, if dragonriders do not rise to char the parasite, it will devour all organic life it encounters.
	www.annemccaffreyfans.org /biblio/pern2.html (1952 words)

	The Year of Pern \| Site of the Week \| SCI FI Weekly
		To celebrate the anniversary, as well as the release of the 11th Pern novel, Del Rey Books has created a Web site that is chock full of Pern and McCaffrey information, contests and more.
		The gem of this section is a page called "Building a World: the Invention of Pern," an essay by McCaffrey that tells how she came to create Pern and how she feels about its evolution over the years.
		Pern 101 introduces the major concepts of the Pern universe, and there's also a page about the second edition of The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, a nonfiction atlas and almanac.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/sites/sfw2908.html (452 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Dolphins of Pern: Books: Anne Mccaffrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this latest addition to McCaffrey's popular Pern series (Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, etc.), the humans of Pern are reunited, after eons of noncontact, with the intelligent dolphins who had originally settled the planet with them.
		But, though his interest is shared by the young dragonrider T'Lion and his dragon, Gadareth, it is forbidden by his mother, who has feared the unusual ever since she was kidnapped by outlaws because of her ability to hear and talk with dragons.
		Pern also has changed a lot in this book and what I think made Pern interesting is how people interacted and were dependant upon each other though the re-discovery of the dolphins and the events that take place after-ward will keep your eyes glued to the page.
	www.amazon.ca /Dolphins-Pern-Anne-Mccaffrey/dp/0345368959 (1649 words)

	Welcome to Pern
		In terms of the start of the chronology of the PERN saga this is in the middle, but in terms of when it was written, this was the start of something big.
		Menolly's struggles to find a place in her world are that of any adolescent but the imaginative setting of the planet Pern with it's intricate social structure and it's fantasical dragons are equally intriging.
		Marking the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Pern series, here is a cycle of short tales by the Hugo and Nebula-winning author who is one of sf's most popular storytellers.
	www.kongaloid.org /library/perneng.html (1429 words)

	Pern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a departure from reality, Rukbat is a class G (yellow) star in the series; the real Rukbat is a blue, class B star -- although it could be that the star Pern orbits is simply a solar-type star that is near the real Rukbat which was given the brighter star's name for convenience.
		The plants best-known to humans residing on Pern are those that are useful.
		The Crafts of Pern are: Harper, Smith, Healer, Miner, Weaver, Farmer, Fisher, Tanner, Baker, Vintner, and Herder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pern (2627 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chronicles of Pern: 1st Fall: Books: A. McCaffrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne Mccaffrey
		The Survey: P.E.R.N - This is the shortest story of the collection and it deals with the original surveyors who were mapping that part of the galaxy and recommended Pern for colonization.
		The story of the survey of Pern was mildly interesting but really could have been a single paragraph explaining that Pern is an acronym based on the survey findings.
	www.amazon.ca /Chronicles-Pern-Fall-McCaffrey/dp/061362601X (2056 words)

	Anne McCaffrey: The Skies of Pern
		McCaffrey seems to be using The Skies of Pern to increase the dragons' abilities so they will have an occupation after the current, and final, Pass is concluded in addition to providing Pern with further threats which only the dragons and their riders can overcome.
		The Skies of Pern continues to add to the richness of the planet by providing Pern with predatory felines who can, under the right circumstances endanger a dragon, asteroid strikes and the beginning of the opening of the heretofore unexamined Western continent.
		The Skies of Pern is typical of many of the novels in the series in its treatment of heroes and villains, and will appeal to the myriad fans of the dragonriders and Pern.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/pern.html (839 words)

	Dragon Riders Of Pern
		A prologue explains that Pern is a world much like Earth, chosen and settled long ago by explorers.
		The original resentment smoldering between the dragonmen and the rest of Pern’s inhabitants was only temporarily eased by the need for everyone to work together during the frantic first days of Thread’s return.
		Her description of the discovery and impression of fire-lizards, distant relatives to the dragons, is especially intriguing.
	www.futurefiction.com /dragon_riders_of_pern.htm (1381 words)

	Roedin Of Pern -- Pern Games
		Dragonriders of Pern presents the struggle among the Leaders of the six different Weyrs to be recognized as leader of Pern.
		The primary goal of the players is the protection of Pern from the ravages of Thread; if the northern continent of Pern (represented on the playing board) has been so Threaded that it can not support life, then all of the players lose, along with Pern.
		Ages have passed since the lapse of Pern's ruin by the dreaded and deadly oppressor, Thread.
	www.roedinofpern.co.uk /perngames.html (609 words)

	Pern: The Lost Weyrs
		We are a Pern based RPG that takes place during the end of the Second Long Interval and then in the 9
		In Pern: The Lost Weyrs, the Dragon Riders disappeared two hundred seventy turns into the second long interval.
		Harpers tried to warn the people of Pern of the debt that they owed the riders, but it was to no avail.
	pern-thelostweyrs9.tripod.com (676 words)

	Online Pern
		I first met Pern aged 11 in 1989, when a friend showed me her stuffed fire lizard and I tried to tell her it was a dragon.
		Sariel's Guide to Pern The most in-depth fan page on Pern that I've seen and one of the few that really is regularly updated.
		Dragonflight A Pern game for the PC and Dreamcast, which is scheduled for release early next year last I heard.
	www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/crisis/953/pern.htm (1505 words)

	Welcome to alt.fan.pern (Section 1)
		The newsgroup alt.fan.pern is dedicated to discussion of the fictional world of Pern as described in the various novels and short stories by Anne McCaffrey.
		Pern is the third planet of the Rukbat system in the Sagittarius sector.
		However, it was agreed that this would be too narrow a topic to warrant a newsgroup, so the charter was expanded to general discussion of Pern and Pern fandom, discussion carried out on alt.config and the newgroup message was sent out.
	www.swcp.com /~quirk/afp1.html (2071 words)

	The DragonRiders Of The Pern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the aspects were harmonious and the conjunction with its sister planet close enough, as it often was, the indigenous life of the wanderer sought to bridge the space gap to the more temperate and hospitable planet.
		It was during the frantic struggle to combat the menace dropping through Pern's skies like silver threads that Pern's tenuous contact with the mother planet was broken.
		The winged, tailed, and fiery-breather dragons (named from the Earth legend they resembled) their dragonmen, a breed apart, and the menace battled, created a whole new group of legends and myths.
	groups.msn.com /TheDragonRidersOfThePern (433 words)

	Main Page - Pern Wiki
		Pern Wiki Breaking News- News here will appear for a week then will be transferred the Current events page.
		All references to worlds and characters based on Anne McCaffrey's fiction are copyright © Anne McCaffrey 1967,2000, all rights reserved, and used by permission of the author.
		The Dragonriders of Pern® is registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, by Anne McCaffrey, used here with permission.
	dragonridersofpern.net (141 words)

	Online Pern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Year of Pern This page about Pern and the development of the series is maintained by the publishers Del Rey.
		Dragonflight Finally, an official Pern RPG, which is apparently scheduled for release in March 2000.
		Pern and Dragons Although something of a work in progress as yet, this is an ambitious and exhaustive look into online Pern and M*ing, with emphasis on the Search side of things, but also covering holds and crafts.
	members.aol.com /kernowsrah/Pern.htm (1683 words)

	The Pern Masters Webring
		Morlevan Weyr is an Approved Sixth Interval Dragonriders of Pern RPG uses Play By eMail to develop our story, exploring life as dragonriders might have known it.
		On the other hand, if you want to RP out a believable Pern World.Our chars live in a place where not all bronze riders are hero’s and gold riders can be sugar and spice and everything not so nice...
		Rainfall Weyr is an RPG based on Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.
	e.webring.com /hub?ring=pernmasters (728 words)

	Pern Timelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Far Western Weyr is located on the Far Western Continent of Pern and is set at the end of a Long Interval.
		Segel, the founding Weyr in this timeline is among the oldest Weyrs in Pern fandom; thus, the timeline follows the grandfathered (pre-1997) Impression rules.
		The Shared Tenth Pass is one of the oldest timelines in Pern fandom.
	4dw.net /aerden/perntimelines.html (471 words)

	Discovering Pern
		The first thing I thought when I seen Dragonrider's of Pern was who would write such a thick book about dragons, and then I realized that there were 3 books bound together.
		The current book of the month being, The Dragon Riders of Pern, which incorporated 3 of the books, which happened to be Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon.
		Well I was A lonely 13 year old when I read my first Pern book "Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern" I enjoyed the characters, and soon I was reading the whole series.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/aerrin/discoverpern.html (2149 words)

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