A Pern Museum world exclusive: cover art for Dragongirl! (Jan 2010)
We are proud to say it seems that it's becoming a tradition for the Perm Museum & Archives to get the permission of the reknowed British artist Les Edwards for the world premiere of new Pern cover art. This time we proudly present Les Edward's art for the cover of the new Pern book Dragongirl, by Todd McCaffrey (publication date rescheduled to July 27, 2010). Dragongirl is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com and you will support this website by doing so. Like the previous Pern novel the gorgeous artwork will grace both the US and UK covers of the book.If you want to see more artwork by Les Edwards we heartily recommend a visit to his website full of wonders. To admire the full work of art please click on the thumbnail or use this link.

Pern book (publication dates) news (Jan 2010)
There is some more information about the upcoming new Pern books in Todd McCaffrey's first newsletter of the year: Dragongirl, the sequel to Dragonheart, has its publication date re-scheduled to July 2010. So it'll be a slightly longer wait for us. Dragonrider, the new collaboration between Tood and his mother Anne, has been turned in to the publishers. It is expected to be published in hardcover in 2011. Further more, the draft of Todd's Dragon's Time, the sequel to Dragonrider, is currently being read by his agent. Todd McCaffrey has started a newsletter to which you can take a subscription. We will pass on all the news of course, but in case you want to read more about Todd's non-Pern exploits and experiences you might want to visit his website and register for the newsletter.

A happy Turnover! (Jan 2010)
The Pern Museum & Archives wishes to extend its best wishes for the coming Turn to all its supporters, viewers and visitors. We hope you, and all those who are dear to you, will have a happy and healthy 2010. With those two things "in your pocket" everything else will follow.

News from Anne and some new Pern books! (Dec 2009)
In an end-of-year-update letter on her own website Anne gives us a lot of news, both bad and good. The bad news is that she has undergone surgery on her hip and knee and has entered the healing process with all the disadvantages a lady of 83 has. Our own re-bionic Annie (her words, not mine) is still in physiotherapy and she writes "it will be a while before I get all the parts moving in the right direction again." The good news on the personal front is that there is a chance that, when the dust has settled, she'll be fully ambulatory again. So let's keep out fingers crossed for the Dragonlady!
Anne tells us that she hasn't done any writing this year, as that took energy she hadn't available, but that she was very pleased with Todd's Dragongirl. So much so that she suggested they collaborate on its sequel, Dragonrider. And more good news for us fans: they are already planning a sequel for that, as yet unpublished, book: Dragon's Time. They might all be working titles and subject to change but I guess we are assured of our future "Pern fixes"! Apart from that there's the new collaboration with Annie Scarborough (Catalyst: A Tale of Barque Cats, who appear in the Acorna world) which will come out from Del Rey in hardcover early 2010.
Read the whole letter here, on Anne's website and if you feel like it, send her a get well soon card at: Anne McCaffrey, Dragonhold-Underhill, Newcastle, County Wicklow, Ireland. Let's show her we haven't forgotten her!

Suvudu Free Library (Sep 2009)
Not so long ago Random House, the publisher that also publishes the Del Rey books, started the Suvudu Free Library. At Random House they know it can be hard to navigate the countless fantasy and science fiction series out there and figure out which ones are right for you. Well, through this new initiative they are trying to make those tough decisions a bit easier. With the Suvudu Free Book Library, you can read the first book in some of our most acclaimed series absolutely free! They will be adding new titles to the download list on a regular basis. To be on top of the news you can sign up for a newsletter and be the first to find out what the newest free offerings are. Among the books added this month (No it is not a Pern book. That would mean Dragonflight for free...) is the first volume in the Twins of Petaybee series: Changelings, by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It is available as free download in PDF, Kindle, Sony Reader, BN and Scribd formats. You can, of course, still buy the real thing, too.

Les Edwards cover artist for Dragongirl (Sep 2009)
Les Edwards' wife and agent Valerie let the Pern Museum & Archives know that Les has been asked by the US publisher (Del Rey/Ballantine Books) to do the cover art for the new Third Pass series Todd McCaffrey book Dragongirl. The McCaffrey's publisher in the UK, Transworld Pubishers will use the same cover art for the Bantam and Corgi editions. As we let know earlier, publication of Dragongirl, the sequel to Dragonheart, is expected for April 2010.

Tenth Anniversary festivities: opening of the Pern Museum Art Gallery and new portrait by Linda Eicher (August 2009)
I have been very content with my ISP and for some months now with my new 60Mb fibre optics connection, but the otherwise reliable Cisco modem gave out last Thursday and with a replacement having to be installed by a mechanic it effectively meant I was a week without internet access... While I would normaly see that as a kind of an enforced holiday it couldn't have come at a more inappropriate time, just before the weekend in which the anniversary festivities would start, the weekend I would announce the opening of the Pern Museum Art Gallery with a truely magnificent portrait of Masterharper Robinton by artist Linda Eicher! You can click on the thumbnail on the right to jump immediately to Linda's own page in the Fan Art section of the new Art Gallery. The Linda Eicher room of the museum now has what many fans wanted and asked for: large pictures of her great portrait scenes (please do remember these are copryrighted and permission is needed to use or reproduce them anywhere).You can also reach the Art Gallery's main menu page by clicking on the Art Gallery button in the menu to the left and through the posterbutton on the Pern Museum menu page. Stay tuned for more festivities with exclusive new art and possibly a contest with great prizes!

Pern Museum & Archives 10th Anniversary (July 2009)
I am proud to announce that the Pern Museum & Archives wil be celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. I started a counter at the end of October 2005, so that's almost five years ago, which now stands at almost 130,000 people who visited my pages. I think it is safe to assume that the total number will be around a quarter of a million visitors. A lot has happened to me (and my site) during the last decade; most of them fun things, some things were less pleasant. Overall my life has been immensely enriched by getting to know people in the Anne McCaffrey fan community. Many became friends in real life and even Anne McCaffrey herself became a personal friend, something I absolutely hadn't even dared dream about ten years ago. We will celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Pern Museum with some new spectacular pages. A grand new room of the Museum will open its doors next weekend... some spectacular new artwork will be involved...

Older news can be found in the News Archive

New Pern book by Anne put on hold!
We would gladly bring better and more promising news but unfortunately Anne told us not too long ago that, at the age of 82 and with recurring health problems, it is very hard to find the energy to dedicate to the necessary writing and rewriting needed to get the book ready to send to the publishers again. We, as fans, need to be realistic and must resign ourselves to the fact that it might take much loger than expected for this book to materialise. News about this book (working titles: New Era Pern and After the Fall (is Over)) leaked out in 2007.

Dragongirl publication date re-scheduled
The publication date for Dragongirl, Todd's next new Pern novel that was to be published on his birthday, April 27, is re-scheduled to 27 July 2010. You can already pre-order this book at Amazon.com.

Dragonheart paperback
Todd McCaffrey's Pern novel Dragonheart will be released as paperback on October 27, 2009, well in advance of the festive season. Del Rey has put up an excerpt on their website, you can read it here.

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New Pern CD by Opland & Freeman!
Tania Opland and Mike Freeman, the musicians of the Masterharper of Pern CD and the Pern Songbook have finished theri new Pern CD titled Sunsets Gold. Personally I think its even better than the first Pern CD!

Click here to order your copy of this great new CD!

More Mac!

There's a section on this website that is dedicated to all the non-Pern books and stories by Anne McCaffrey.

Please check it out here.

Todd

On January 12, 2009: Todd did a signing at Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, USA, for his then new book Dragon Harper. See pictures of that event here.

Rules for Pern and McCaffrey fandom
Together with the end of the forum and chatfacility on Anne's website (in January 2005) a substantial relaxation of the rules regarding McCaffrey fandom was announced. In the new setting, rules are virtually non-existent except for a few sensible ones regarding copyright and decent behaviour, to which no fan will be opposed. In the event that rights are sold for film, TV or other media, the rules may change again. Sites who have not done so are invited to register as official fansites to be listed in an online database.

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