>Dan Minette wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:04 PM > > Subject: Re: Starship Troopers (was: Re: The Yom Kippur War [was: Fwd: > > CNNBreaking Ne... > > > > > > > > _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!). > > > > Its not even as good as Masterharper was. Her formula was tired out by > > then. She died recently, didn't she? > >Uh, no. I think that something like that would have been reported on >her website, and there's nothing to that effect there (and it was >updated on Sunday). > >The last author I heard of dying was Astrid Lindgreen. > >Now, I hear rumors of ill health now and again, but ill health does not >inevitably lead to death. :) > > Julia >
Dan, maybe you're thinking of Marion Zimmer Bradley. She actually died a couple of years ago, but apparently a lot of people didn't hear about it until last July when TNT showed a really poor (IMHO) mini-series adaptation of The Mists of Avalon. Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
