> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I got hooked on SF through the Pern books. Gateway drug. :) I don't > care for them quite as much now, but I'm glad they were > around to snare > me. (And I'm still buying the new ones as they come out in paperback, > and some other Anne McCaffrey stuff as well. Not sure if I'm going to > continue with the series that began with _Freedom's Landing_, > though, as > that one annoyed me a bit when I read it in the last trimester of > pregnancy.) The _Freedom's Landing_ books get somewhat better as they going along, I thought. Still not McCaffrey's best work, though. Isn't there a new Pern book? Hasn't she beaten that horse about as far as it will go? She should have stopped with _MasterHarper_, in my opinion. - John H
