| Re: A bit confused on "The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern" |
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| Herb Free (hfree2002@charter.net) |
2004/06/17 17:30 |
Thank you Hartley, that is exactly what I was looking for! :-D
"Hartley Patterson" <hpttrsn@daisy.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Herb Free:
> > In the HTML Faq for the newsgroup, it states:
> >
> > "Considered by many to be the reference work on Pern...aside from the
books
> > themselves. Others have noted internal contradictions as well as
conflicts
> > with other published material and therefore do not consider it
particularly
> > authoritative. The 2nd edition adds material from books published since
the
> > 1st edition."
>
> You'll find a long list of problems with DLG here:
> http://www.srellim.org/pern/dlg_errata.htm
>
> DLG has a variety of sources:
>
> * The stories that had been published up to 1989.
> * Interviews with AMC and maybe access to unpublished notes on future
> stories.
> * Information on animals, arts and crafts etc that might reasonably be
> supposed to exist on Pern.
> * Some roleplaying game material by Nye - new characters etc. DLG might
> have been originally intended to be published by a games company, or
> maybe Nye had the writeups lying around from an unfinished project.
>
> The Second Edition (1997) was a reprint of the First with extra pages
> added covering the new stories.
>
> --
> "I just might be the angel at your door"
> A medieval spreadsheet, enturbulating entheta and
> how to outrun Thread.
> http://www.newsfrombree.co.uk
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