"Horn, John" wrote:
>
> > 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.
_The Skies of Pern_ came out in 2001, and the mass market edition came
out last month. It appears to be about F'lessan and some tragedy. I'll
let you know if it's much good at all once I've read it (which may
actually be sometime this year -- it's not all that high on my priority
list!).
Julia
