[Dragaera] McCaffrey FHYA?

[Jerry Friedman]

In Chapter the Thirtieth of FHYA, we read "the high reaches
of the Dragon Wing were but ill-heated at the best of times."

Is this an allusion to Anne McCaffrey's Pern series?

For anyone who hasn't read it: There's a High Reaches Weyr (a
place where tame dragons live) and the dragons are organized
into wings.  Also, he Pern series must be one of Dragaera's
ancestors as a successful example of the lost-human-colony-
reverted-to-swords-and-lords-and-psionics subgenre.  In
particular, the conversations between Vlad and Loiosh is
highly reminiscent of the italicized telepathic conversations
between humans and their dragons--or fire lizards, the
dragons' shoulder-perching relatives--on Pern.  And you'd
probably enjoy /Dragonflight/ at least.

-- 
Jerry Friedman


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