| Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern | |
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Whelan cover of Del Rey editions[lower-alpha 1] |
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| Author(s) | Anne McCaffrey |
| Cover artist | Michael Whelan Steve Weston (UK) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dragonriders of Pern |
| Genre(s) | Science Fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey/Ballantine |
| Publication date | November 1983 (US) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 286 pp (first US hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-29874-8 |
| OCLC Number | 9441838 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 19 |
| LC Classification | PS3563.A255 M6 1983 |
| Preceded by | Dragondrums |
| Followed by | Nerilka's Story |
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern is a fantasy or science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It was the seventh book published in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey.[1]
With this book, McCaffrey jumped 1000 years back in Pern history from the setting of the first book, Dragonflight, to a time memorialized in song and rendered legendary from the standpoint of the previous books.
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The story involves a deadly disease that nearly wipes out the Pernese population. Moreta is a weyrwoman at Fort Weyr who sets out to save the human population, racing against time itself. The follow-up novel, Nerilka's Story, tells the tale of the same event, from a different perspective.
It addresses such issues as quarantine, public response to emergency restrictions on travel and assembly, and also describes how "modern" forms of transportation, especially air travel, can spread a disease worldwide during its incubation period, allowing the disease to spread far more widely before pathologists are able to recognize the magnitude of the outbreak.
Moreta was the last Pern book published before The Atlas of Pern (1984), a companion book prepared by Karen Wynn Fonstad in consultation with McCaffrey. As such Moreta's geographical settings from peninsulas to stables are illustrated by maps and other drawings and its chronology is explicitly presented in the Atlas.
Moreta was one of five nominees for the annual Hugo Award for Best Novel and it placed sixth for the annual Locus Award for Best Novel.[2]
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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