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Originally Posted by HarryT
I prefer to think that Pern started out as straight fantasy, and McCaffrey deliberately changed it into SF by introducing a scientific explanation for the dragons. But perhaps that was the plan all along - I don't know.
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It was originally fantasy - the prologue establishing it as SF didn't show up until "Weyr Search" & "Dragonrider" were collected (along with "Crack Dust, Black Dust", previously unpublished) into "Dragonflight".