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''Dragon's Kin'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey. Published by Del Rey Books in 2003, it is the eighteenth book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series and the first with Todd as co-author.〔. Retrieved 2011-10-09.〕 ''Dragon's Kin'' may be considered the first of a trilogy by the McCaffreys, preceding ''Dragon's Fire'' and ''Dragon Harper''. Primarily the three books feature Kindan as a boy and young man, about 500 years after landing on Pern (500 AL). ==Collaboration== Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) created Pern in the novella ''Weyr Search'' (1967) when her second child Todd was eleven. In 2001 and 2002 she published her fifteenth Pern novel and second collection of short stories. ''Dragon's Kin'' was their first collaborative work. Todd later recalled that a Del Rey editor in the 1990s "pitched it to me that someone ought to continue Mum’s legacy when she was no longer able. At the time I had misgivings and no story ideas." Previously, as Todd Johnson, he had contributed the chapter "Training and Fighting Dragons" to ''The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern'' (1989). Mother and son had also discussed Pern and its setting for years, and she had suggested that he "write the military science fiction prequels" to the colonization, but that never progressed far.〔("Letter from Nathan" ) (2009-12-26). Todd McCaffrey blog. Retrieved 2011-07-13.〕 They co-authored four Pern novels and, as of December 2011, Todd has done three alone. All are set just before and during the "Third Pass", about 500 years after human settlement on Pern and 2000 years before the "Ninth Pass" events chronicled in most of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dragon's Kin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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