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The Atlas of Pern
Trade paperback edition cover[1]
Author
Karen Wynn Fonstad
Illustrator
Karen Wynn Fonstad
Cover artist
Karen Wynn Fonstad (James Harris design)
Language
English
Series
Dragonriders of Pern companion
Genre
Science fiction; Atlas
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Publication date
November 1984
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (paperback & hardcover)
Pages
xvii+169pp (all eds.)
ISBN
0-345-31434-4
Dewey Decimal
813.54 F733a
The Atlas of Pern by Karen Wynn Fonstad is an authorized companion book to the science fiction Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It was completed in 1984 based on the first seven Pern novels and collaboration with McCaffrey.
The Atlas is a large-format book comprising regional maps, chronologies for the seven published novels, local maps and drawings of "Hall, Hold, and Weyr", thematic maps on a world scale, and notes. The Notes are page references to the canon, a list of reference works, and an index of place names.
McCaffrey wrote in her "Welcome" that she had received in November 1983 "the first of Karen's renditions of my Pern, which rendered clearly what had been partially obscured by a myopic mind's eye: this is Pern! ... all lifted from the depths of my imagination and captured by Karen's draftsmanship and geographical expertise ...".[2]
Fonstad had earned a Master's degree in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as Director of Cartographic Services at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh before "retirement" to raising children and writing atlases of fictional worlds.[3] Pern was her second, following The Atlas of Middle-earth (Houghton-Mifflin, 1981) based on the fantasy fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her acknowledgments for The Atlas of Pern include "my husband, Todd, associate professor of geography", the UW Oshkosh Department of Geography, several UWO faculty members.[4]
^The Atlas of Pern title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists cover artists Karen Wynn Fonstad and James R. Harris variously. The first edition data compiler notes: "Cover design by James R. Harris, hand lettering by Richard Nebiolo. Artwork is from one of the maps in the book so I'm giving the author the art credit". Inspection supports that. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
^"Welcome to Pern", The Atlas of Pern front endpapers.
^"About the Author", The Atlas of Pern back endpapers.
^"Acknowledgements", The Atlas of Pern front endpapers.
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