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Dragon's
Kin
Written
by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
Reviewed
by Tom A. Wright
A
common plot in Anne McCaffrey's Pern books is to have a gifted
child or two from the working class overcoming family obstacles
to make an important impact on the entire society. This is definitely
true of Dragon's Kin. What keeps this novel from being a tired
rehash of Dragon's Song, is that we see elements of the world
of Pern we haven't seen much of, the miners, watch-whers (ugly
cousins to the dragons), and a blind girl. The major conflicts
in this book are slow to build, and are far from world shattering,
but the story makes up for it with good character development.
Seeing what will happen to Kindan, the young boy orphaned early
in the book, and Nuella, the blind girl kept hidden from the mining
community where they live easily keeps you turning the page. This
book is a collaboration with Anne and her son Todd, who is working
on a Pern novel all his own. If Dragon's Kin is any indication
of Todd's ability to step into the world created by his mother,
we may continue to see stories in Anne's most famous world continue
on well past the time she retires from writing. I hope Todd's
up to the task. He has big shoes to fill.
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