Chronological Order
            Of
            The Pern Series


                                         +------------------------+                                            Backwards
                                         | "Survey: P.E.R.N." |                                                    ^
                                         +------------------------+                                                    |
                                         +------------------+                                                         Time
1st Pass->                        |  Dragonsdawn +---------------------------+                    |
                                         +------------------+ "The Dolphins' Bell"  |                    v
                                                                     +---------------------------+              Forwards
                               +----------------------------------- +
                               | "The Ford of Red Hanrahan"  1 |
                               +------------------------------------+
                               +-------------------------+
                               | "The Second Weyr"  1|
                               +-------------------------+
1st Interval.->
                                         +-------------------+
                                         |  "Rescue Run"  1|
                                         +-------------------+

                                         +----------------------------------+
                                         |  Red Star Rising/Dragonseye|
2nd Pass->                      +----------------------------------+
[...]
6th Pass->
                                                                   +------------+
                                          +---------------+                   |
                                          |    Moreta:     |                   |
                                          | Dragonlady  |  Nerilka's   |
                                          |     of  Pern    |    Story       |
                                          +---------------+                   |
6th Interval->                                           |                   |
                                                                  +-------------+

[...]

8th Interval->                                                                                             +-----------------+
                                                                                                                     |           The       |
                                                                                                                     | Masterharper |
                                                               +--------------+                             |     of Pern       |
                                                               |                     | +-----------------+------------------+
                          +---------------------+   |                     |  |                        |
                          |"Runner of Pern" 2|   |                      |  | Dragonflight  |
                          +---------------------+   |                     |  |                        |
9th Pass->                                              |                     |  |                        |
                                                                |                      |+-----------------+
                                                                |                      |                         +----------------+
                                                                |                      |+----------------+  Dragonsong  |
                                                                |                      ||                       +-----------------+
                                                                |                      || Dragonquest |   Dragonsinger|
                                                                |                      ||                       +-----------------+
                                                                |                      |+----------------+
                                                                | The               |
                                                                |                      +------------------+ +-------------------+
                                                                | Renegades   |   Dragondrums   |"The Impression" 3|
                                                                |    of Pern      |                           +---------------------+
                                                                |                      +------------------+
                                                                |                      | +------------------+
                                                                |                      | | "The Smallest   |
                                                                |                      | |   Dragonboy" |
                                                                |                      | +------------------+
                                        +---------------+                      |
                                        |                      |                      +---------------------+
                                        | The White    |                       |  "The Girl Who     |
                                        |   Dragon       |                       | Heard Dragons" 5 |
                                        |                      |                      +---------------------+
                                        +--------------+                        |
                                                                |                       |
                                                                +----------------+
                                                                |       All the     |
                                     +----------------+      Weyrs        |
                                     |          The        |     of Pern       |
                                     |     Dolphins     +----------------+
                                     |       of Pern     |
                                     +----------------+

 

Notes:

 1 Published in Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
 2 Published in Legends
 3 Published in The Dragonlovers Guide to Pern
 4 Published in Get Off The Unicorn
 5 Published in The Girl Who Heard Dragons

Horizontally connected 'boxes' indicate closely connected (i.e. same events from different points of view) stories. Boxes connected vertically indicate that the following story takes place immediately after the previous one.

Nerilka's Story starts 4 days before Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern.

"Runner of Pern" takes place in the spring just before the first Threadfall of the 9th Pass.

Dragonsong is shown to start previous to Dragonquest based on the timelines provided in Karen Fonstead's Atlas of Pern.

Dragonquest is shown to continue beyond the end of Dragonsinger based on the reports on Canth's healing which suggest that considerable time has elapsed since Canth's jump to the Red Star.

The White Dragon is shown to start before "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" since The Renegades of Pern indicates that the latter
takes place in late autumn, while the former tends to suggest that the weather is just starting to turn cool.
 


The above schematic and information has been adapted from
alt.fan.pern

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