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DLG ed1 cover Differences between 
Editions 1 and 2 of
The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern		 DLG ed2 cover

The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern is copyright © 1989, 1997
by Bill Fawcett and Associates

From pages 1 through 171, both editions are exactly the same as far as I can tell.  The table of contents for these pages matches exactly. (Heck, they didn't even correct the picture on page 2, which shows the globe of Pern with north oriented down!)

The second edition has roughly 35 additional page of text which cover information from Renegades, All the Weyrs, Chronicles, Dolphins, and Dragonseye/Red Star Rising (sorry, no Masterharper).   New chapters are titled: The End of Thread, Life After Thread, Dolphineers, New Life for the Dragons, and Dragons and Their Riders.

The pronunciation guide for the 2nd edition appears to contain no new characters.

The second edition has an index; the first did not (but there is one index to the first available online; see links at bottom of page).

The last chapter of the 2nd ed., Dragons and Their Riders, is essentially a dragondex, which is useful and quite complete - though there are a number of errors in it.  This dragondex is organized into several sections, which make looking up info easier:

Organization of "Dragons and Their Riders" dragondex
Section Name Included Information
Complete Cast Name, dragon, color, rank, book, Hold/Hall/Weyr
Notable Firelizards Owner, color, firelizard name
First Dragonriders (1st & 2nd hatchings) Name, dragon, color
Dragons Name, color, rider, book, weyr
Dragonriders Rider, dragon, color, book, weyr

Characters indexed in the Complete Cast include almost everyone/thing that has a proper name: people, most firelizards, dolphins, horses/runnerbeasts, dogs, and dragons's with unnamed riders.
The "book" designation seems to be the first book the character appeared in, not a listing of all books the character is in.

There are numerous minor typographical errors in the DLG, as well as disagreement between it and the novels by Anne.  Details can be found on my DLG Errata page.

Links of interest:
 Index to The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, 1st Edition
The first edition doesn't have an index, so Kynn made her own, and was nice enough to put it where the rest of us can use it!  I've found it useful to lookup tidbits of info which the table of contents doesn't help me find, such as where it mentions that Camo is Robinton and Silvina's son.

last updated: 8/13/2004