Series
Federated Sentient Planets
Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, Mercedes Lackey, S. M. Stirling, Elizabeth Moon, Margaret Ball, Barbara Erickson, Gigi McCaffrey & Veronica Giguere · 48 novels · 9 novellas · 14 novelettes · 8 short stories · 3 collections · 2 gamebooks · 1961–2026
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- Time
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- Audience
- Form
Reading order
- The Ship Who ...(16 works)
- Dragonriders of Pern(50 works)
- The Crystal Universe(12 works)
- Ireta(5 works)
- Dinosaur Planet(2 works)
- Planet Pirates(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(13 editions)
Map
Federated Sentient Planets at the centre, 14 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s10
- 1970s14
- 1980s14
- 1990s23
- 2000s11
- 2010s7
- 2020s5
Shape
48 novels · 9 novellas · 14 novelettes · 8 short stories · 3 collections · 2 gamebooks
10 authors
reads like:science fictiondragonsother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 94% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · brighter = more books77 of 84 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Ship Who Mourneddarkest
- The Smallest Dragonboybrightest
- The Masterharper of Perncalmest
- The Ship Avengedmost intense