Crossword clues for pern
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pern \Pern\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The honey buzzard.
Pern \Pern\, v. t. [See Pernancy.]
To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.]
--Sylvester.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle Etymology 2
n. A honey buzzard; ''Pernis apivorus''. Etymology 3
vb. To take profit of; to make profitable.
Wikipedia
Pern is a fictional planet created by Anne McCaffrey beginning in the 1960s, the setting for the Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction books. In the story it is "Rukbat 3", the third planet in orbit around the star Rukbat, counting outward.
No Pern fiction has been published since June 2012, several months after Anne McCaffrey's death. There are two collections of Pern stories; twenty-three novels, some written jointly or solely by Todd McCaffrey, the son of Anne; and a few authorized companion books by other writers. The figure shows the habitable portion of Pern's northern continent and a tiny portion of its southern continent, which are the setting for the first novel Dragonflight (1968) and its sequel Dragonquest. East–West it shows approximately that hemisphere known prior to the last two books (2011, 2012). North–South it does not show the abandoned region of "Landing" and early colonization, further to the southeast, whose rediscovery and resettlement is one unifying theme of the stories that follow Dragonquest in Pern historical time, perhaps one third of the series.
The Atlas of Pern (1984), a companion book by Karen Wynn Fonstad in consultation with Anne McCaffrey, provides geographical detail for a region extending further south and east, covering the habitable portion of the so-called Southern Contient. In their geographical scope The Atlas maps cover the settings of all but the last two books, Dragon's Time (2011) and Sky Dragons (2012). Those two are set largely on the smaller and heretofore unknown Western Continent, on the other side of Pern from the settled Northern Continent.
The name "Pern" is revealed in "The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall" to come from the notes made by the original colony survey team. The name was taken from the acronym of the indicators for the planet: Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible.
Usage examples of "pern".
Pellar produced a multicolored self-portrait in the way of all those who had only three Turns on Pern, exactly the same way that those who were only three years old back on long-forgotten Earth would have done--complete with arms sticking out of heads.
It would be another eighteen Turns before it grew to its ghastly largest size and brought the voracious Thread to threaten all life on Pern for a whole fifty Turns.
I have been requested by Murenny, Masterharper of Pern, to present you the formal garb of a harper apprentice.
How many children on Pern, he wondered, were like Cristov--trying to do their best without example?
Thread in midair, before it reached the soil of Pern and sucked it of all life, turning lush valleys into lifeless dust bowls.
And if they survived, Pern would benefit from the protection their labors helped provide.
Having grown up in Ireland with the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.
Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an intimate knowledge of Pern and its history: her son, Todd.
Turns the Red Star moved too far from Pern for Thread to fall, and the threat faded awayuntil two hundred Turns later when the Red Star repeated its orbit, beginning a second Pass.
Especially a girl who had inadvertently Impressed nine fire lizards when everyone else on Pern would give a left arm to own just one?
Running had done more than save her skin from Threadscoring: it had brought her to Benden Weyr, to the attention of the Masterharper of Pern and to the start of a completely new life.
Then she laughed at herself, for, to be sure she had: she was halfway round Pern from Benden Weyr and HalfCircle Hold, and she had had at least six hours more rest than usual.
On one wall was a finely drawn map of the Pern continent, with smaller detailed drawings of all the major Holds and Crafthalls pinned here and there on the borders.
She was giving him a list of the various types of fish that inhabited the oceans of Pern when the tocsin rang again and her explanation was drowned by shouts as apprentices erupted into the courtyard on their way to the dining hall.
The Masterharper of Pern had apologized to her, Menolly of HalfCircle Sea Hold, for improving on her song.