Written by Anne McCaffrey, the first Pern novella, "Weyr Search", was published in Analog, an adult science fiction magazine edited by John W. There's insufficient metal and fuel for such an industrial society, whether or not they want one. There's also the matter that they'd been warned the planet's resources were "negligible". Using planes to fight Thread would mean living in an industrial society capable of supporting them dragons could be supported by the idealised medieval society the settlers had wanted. Rather than permanently resort to technological measures, the colonists used genetic engineering to create dragons, a solution compatible with their principles since, like the spaceships that had brought them to Pern, it was technology they could use once, then discard. Pern, an isolated world with no useful resources, seemed like the ideal place for people tired of technology to establish a pastoral utopia, until Thread, an alien fungus that could devour a cow in seconds, began to fall from the skies.
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