McCaffrey finished Dragonquest soon after her 1970 emigration to Ireland but she wrote several stories and a few books before completing the original Dragonriders trilogy .
Dragonquest is a sequel to the first Pern book .
McCaffrey finished Dragonquest , a sequel to the first Pern book , soon after her 1970 emigration to Ireland but she wrote several stories and a few books before completing the original Dragonriders trilogy .