{{Short description|2006 novel by Anne McCaffrey}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2011}} {{infobox book | name = Dragon's Fire | title_orig = | translator = | image = McCaffrey Dragons fire cover.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Youll cover of US editions{{efn|name=cover}} | author = Anne and Todd McCaffrey | cover_artist = {{plainlist| * Paul Youll * Steve Weston (UK){{efn|name=cover}} }} | country = United States | language = English | series = ''Dragonriders of Pern'' | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Del Rey Books | release_date = 11 July 2006 <!-- earliest ISFDB listings are Aug 2006, UK and US, x+366pp, hard; this ISBN is US --> | media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback) | pages = 366 <!-- highest page number --> (hard editions) | isbn = 978-0-345-48028-6 | oclc = 64453478 | dewey = 813/.54 22 | congress = PS3563.A255 D775 2006 | preceded_by = Dragonsblood | followed_by = Dragon Harper }}
'''''Dragon's Fire''''' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey.<ref>{{cite web |title=McCaffrey, Todd (1956–) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mccaffrey-todd-1956-todd-j-mccaffrey |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=29 October 2025}}</ref> Published in 2006,<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon's Fire |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345481374 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=29 October 2025}}</ref> it is the twentieth book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series that she initiated in 1967.<ref>{{isfdb series|482|''Dragonriders of Pern''}}. Retrieved 9 October 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=DRAGON'S FIRE by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey – AudioFile Review |url=https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/26870/dragons-fire-by-anne-mccaffrey-todd-mccaffrey/ |publisher=AudioFile |access-date=29 October 2025}}</ref>
''Dragon's Fire'' may be considered the second of a trilogy by the McCaffreys, between ''Dragon's Kin'' and ''Dragon Harper''. Primarily the three books feature Kindan as a boy and young man, about 500 years after landing on Pern (500 AL). He is not the protagonist of ''Dragon's Fire'', however, which is told from the viewpoints of three others in his generation, which are Cristov, Pellar, and Halla.
==Plot summary== {{expand section|date=November 2011}} Pellar's story provides background information related to the previous title ''Dragon's Kin''. Cristov's story is mostly new material (blue firestone that survives in water) and takes place after the events in Pellar's. The focus of Cristov's story is the problem-laden transition from firestone to the phosphine-bearing rock that is used by later generations of dragons.
== Reception == ''Publishers Weekly'' commended the McCaffreys for shining the light on the risks of mining fossil fuels and slave labor while also maintaining a suitable atmosphere for young and older readerships alike.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dragon's Fire by Anne McCaffrey, Todd J. McCaffrey |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345480286 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
==Notes== {{notelist|notes= {{efn|name=cover|1= {{ISFDB title|194342}} lists cover artist Paul Youll for both US editions and Steve Weston for both UK editions.}} }}
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==External links== * {{ISFDB title|194342}} {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
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