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''The Atlas of Pern'' by Karen Wynn Fonstad is an authorized companion book to the science fiction Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It was completed in 1984 based on the first seven Pern novels and collaboration with McCaffrey. The Atlas is a large-format book comprising regional maps, chronologies for the seven published novels, local maps and drawings of "Hall, Hold, and Weyr", thematic maps on a world scale, and notes. The Notes are page references to the canon, a list of reference works, and an index of place names. McCaffrey wrote in her "Welcome" that she had received in November 1983 "the first of Karen's renditions of my Pern, which rendered clearly what had been partially obscured by a myopic mind's eye: this ''is'' Pern! ... all lifted from the depths of my imagination and captured by Karen's draftsmanship and geographical expertise ...".〔"Welcome to Pern", ''The Atlas of Pern'' front endpapers.〕 Fonstad had earned a Master's degree in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as Director of Cartographic Services at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh before "retirement" to raising children and writing atlases of fictional worlds.〔"About the Author", ''The Atlas of Pern'' back endpapers.〕 Pern was her second, following ''The Atlas of Middle-earth'' (Houghton-Mifflin, 1981) based on the fantasy fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her acknowledgments for ''The Atlas of Pern'' include "my husband, Todd, associate professor of geography", the UW Oshkosh Department of Geography, several UWO faculty members.〔"Acknowledgements", ''The Atlas of Pern'' front endpapers.〕 ==See also== ''The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Atlas of Pern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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