>"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.
>
Julia replied:
>_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!).
My wife will probably be getting to it in the next month or so. I'll let
you know what she thinks also.
Reggie Bautista
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