The Harper Hall Trilogy
First omnibus edition | |
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Victoria Poyser |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dragonriders of Pern |
| Genre | Science fiction and young adult fiction omnibus |
| Publisher | Doubleday SFBC |
Publication date | July 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 500 pp (first) |
| ISBN | 1-56865-017-5 (1997 second edition) |
The Harper Hall trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. They are part of the Dragonriders of Pern series as it is known today, 26 books by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey or daughter Gigi McCaffrey as of 2018. They were published by Atheneum Books in 1976, 1977, and 1979, alongside the Dragonriders of Pern series. Omnibus editions of the two trilogies were published by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club in 1978 and 1984, titled The Dragonriders of Pern and The Harper Hall of Pern respectively.
Harper Hall's target was young adults in contrast to the general audience for fantasy and science fiction. Indeed, editor Jean E. Karl, who had established the children's and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books, hoped to attract more female readers to science fiction and solicited "a story for young women in a different part of Pern". McCaffrey delivered Dragonsong and they contracted for a sequel before it was out.