Federated Sentient Planets Universe

## Genre Information

Space Opera
Colonization

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Space Opera, Space Exploration, Sci Fi Colonization
* **Theme:**
* **Narrative style:**

## Description

Several of Anne McCaffrey's series and many of her books are loosely set in the FSP universe, governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets". Only a few of the books deal directly with the FSP, most of them the FSP only serves as a backdrop with no direct involvement.

### Dragonriders of Pern series

Humans have colonized the planet Pern in the Rukbat star system, but have lost much of their technology and history (including their origin on Earth) due to periodic onslaughts of Thread, a mycorrhizoid spore that voraciously consumes all organic material, including humans and their crops, given the opportunity. Thread comes from the Red Star, actually another planet. The Red Star has a 250-Turn (Pernese year) elliptic orbit around Rukhbat, and when its orbit brings it close enough, Thread rains down on Pern at predictable intervals over about 50 Turns.

### The Brain & Brawn Ship series

The parents of babies with severe physical disabilities — but fully developed and exceptionally talented brains — may allow them to become "shell people" rather than be euthanised. Taking that option, physical growth is stunted, the body is encapsulated in a titanium life-support shell with capacity for computer connections, and the person is raised for "one of a number of curious professions. As such, their offspring would suffer no pain, live a comfortable existence in a metal shell for several centuries, and perform unusual service for Central Worlds."

### The Crystal Singer Trilogy

The crystalline rock of Ballybran, when skilfully cut, is essential to advanced power and communications systems at the heart of interstellar civilization. Only the Guild "singers" can mine crystal: locate it, and cut it with voice-controlled machinery. Killashandra's ability to sing perfect pitch meets one qualification, she knows, and she passes other qualifying exams in the staging area on Ballybran's moon.

### Mystery of Ireta series

When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.

### The Planet Pirates trilogy

All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the space lanes. In this series, survivors of the *Mystery of Ireta series* and space pirate attacks join forces.

## Books in order

*Please visit the individual series articles for a complete listing of all books and stories in each series.*

### Dragonriders of Pern series

* Genres: Sci Fi colonization, Low Fantasy, Science Fantasy
* Theme: colonization that goes badly and they loose the technology that they brought with them, thousands of years pass and they have forgotten where they came from.

#### The Brain & Brawn Ship series

* Genres: Science fiction Cyborgs
* Theme: Human brains are transferred to ships, manufacturing, Cities and more to do valuable work such as running them, in the ships, the ships are their body.

#### The Crystal Singer Trilogy

* Genres: Science fiction
* Theme: Humans with perfect pitch, sing crystals to mine them. The crystals are in huge demand, but singing the crystals effects the humans brains. They live much longer but they loose their memories.

#### Mystery of Ireta series

* Genres: Science fiction Colonization, Exploration
* Theme: When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.

#### The Planet Pirates trilogy

* Genres: Space Opera
* Theme: All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the space lanes. In this series, survivors on Ireta and survivors of space pirate attacks join forces.
* Co-Author: Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye

### Stand alone Novels

* Restoree (1967)
* The Coelura (1983)
* Nimisha's Ship (1998)

## References

1. ↑ wikipedia:Dragonriders of Pern
2. ↑ The Ship who Sang Wikipedia