Anne McCaffrey's best-selling, long-running sci-fi/fantasy series "The Dragonriders of Pern" is headed for the Cineplex via Canada's Copperheart Entertainment says The Hollywood Reporter.

Copperheart has optioned all the novels in the 19-book series, which began with the "Dragonflight" in 1968. The books are best known for having humans ride dragons with which they telepathically bond.

With "Dragonflight," McCaffrey became the first woman ever to win a Hugo for fiction, and she is one of the 2006 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.