Editing Dragonriders of Pern (section)

===Original trilogy===
These stories take place immediately before and during the Ninth Pass, about 2,500 years after landing (AL):
* ''[[Dragonflight (novel)|Dragonflight]]'', by Anne McCaffrey (1968; composed primarily of McCaffrey's first two Pern novellas, "Weyr Search" and "Dragonrider", which were originally published in [[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]] science fiction magazine, in the October 1967 and December 1967 issues respectively)
* ''[[Dragonquest]]'' (1971), by Anne McCaffrey.
* ''[[The White Dragon (novel)|The White Dragon]]'', by Anne McCaffrey (1978; although published prior to ''Dragondrums'', ''The White Dragon'' continues the adventures of certain ''Dragondrums'' characters; McCaffrey recommended reading ''Dragonsong'', ''Dragonsinger'' and ''Dragondrums'' before ''The White Dragon''; ''The White Dragon'' incorporates McCaffrey's story "A Time When")

The trilogy was released 1978 in omnibus edition titled ''The Dragonriders of Pern'' by Nelson Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club.<ref>
{{isfdb contents |126841 |Dragonriders of Pern |omnibus}}. Retrieved 2011-11-14.<br />• ''Dragonflight'' was subtitled "Volume I of The Dragonrider of Pern" on its front cover no later than its fourth US printing, June 1974. {{isfdb contents |272332 |Dragonflight |4th US printing}}. Retrieved 2011-11-14.</ref>