Though in the 70s, when Dragonflight and Dragonquest were published, I guess maybe they were.

I used to think so, and then I realized that The Left Hand of Darkness was published less than a year after Dragonflight and McCaffrey stopped looking very advanced for her age.

Not that that stopped me spending a good eight years RPing in Pern and occasionally popping my head back in.

-azarias, too lazy for openid