Nerilka's Story & The Coelura Paperback – 2 Oct. 1987

I followed the whole "Dragon" saga avidly, many decades ago, and regularly re-read my favourite stories. Nerilka's story is a stand alone novella, but runs parallel in time with another story, half-way through the saga. It's a delight on it's own. Anne writes about human relationships, in fantasy settings, but her perception of human nature remains accurate, and her characters are clearly either to be loved, despised, or understood. This is also true about a mysterious small lifeform, the Coelura, which our heroine this time is desperate to protect, and her father wants to control and benefit from. It's a lovely short fantasy tale

good but overlaps Morete a lot

I have to read it in the sequence for Nerilka’s story, but the Coelura being in there annoys me. It’s a different world, and although I love the story and the concept, it’s not the Pern that I am suspending my reality to be in.

Nerilka's Story - A view of the same storey from a different point of view... Let me make this absolutely clear; if you haven't read Moreta - Dragon Lady of Pern, go and do so before ready this one as you will get much more out of the experience.Anne McCaffrey's books generally start with a healthy review of the storey so far - something a churlish person could object too if it weren't for all the wonder that follows it - but in this instance only the entire preceding book will do!Although some parts of this book are complete echoes of the preceding one you soon learn pounce on those moments even more gripped in the words to draw out the alternate perspective which brings clarity to some aspects previously left questioning.This revisiting is however seamlessly blended with Nerilka's own storey elements making the book as a whole well worth the experience. There are a couple of parts you can even almost hear Anne saying to the reader, "we covered this gap, it doesn't need retelling" nor should they have been from Nerilka's perspective.In short, read them both, you won't be sorry...

Nerilka's srory is great, and very heart warming - no idea about the Coelura, as there was just the title page and no actual story?

The two stories are not the same genre. The first compliments the Pern series with a short story in autobiographical style, the second a new Sci-fi. I found both a good read and difficult to stop until the end.

I like the series but I have only completed one story.

A look at one of Pern's legends from another viewpoint paired with one of Anne McCaffrey's other science fiction forays - an entertaining tale of a planet with a very interesting lifeform