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To: RosieCotton
Rosie, let me recommend Anne McCaffrey to you, if you haven't read her before. She has several series, but I think you would like the Pegasus short story collections/novels, and the follow-on Federated IT&T series (IT&T standing for Interstellar Telepath and Telekinetic).

Of course, she also has her Pern stuff, and the Ship Who Sang series, some of the most imaginative stuff I've read. And there's the Crystal Singer series, and the Acorna series, and the Doona series ...

You know, you don't really understand how prolific an author Anne McCaffrey is until you start listing her series!

597 posted on 03/16/2004 7:48:23 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... must be nice! ...])
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Yes, but I think McCaffrey outsources her writing to India these days. Some of it's good, but really, yet another Acorna book? And the last two Pern novels were really lousy. IMO, she hasn't written a really good story since Masterharper of Pern

That said, I have all but the latest Pern novel. And have read most of her other stuff... she tends to go on with a series too long. "Rowan" and "Damia" were great ( I thought "The Rowan" was vey romantic) but the sequels were boring.

I'll second the Pern recommendation anyway, although again, the sex (more in the later volumes) gets old. Still... dragons, mmm... telepathic dragons and really handsome dragonriders...

602 posted on 03/16/2004 7:51:20 PM PST by JenB
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To: Rose in RoseBear
McCaffrey's another one I mean to read. Which of her series is best to start with?
624 posted on 03/16/2004 8:07:11 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Rosie, let me recommend Anne McCaffrey to you, if you haven't read her before.

I'll have to check and see if I can find some of her books. I saw you posted a list later...I need to bookmark that! To be honest, one of the reasons I'm a bit turned off by some science fiction and fantasy is the whole series thing...seems like there are so many that you have to read all of and in the proper order, and living where I do it's very hard to get a hold of an entire series without purchasing it new.

727 posted on 03/17/2004 5:47:34 AM PST by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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