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Masterharper is probably my favorite, I cry everytime I read it.
If a film is ever made I think James Cromwell would be an excellent
Masterharper.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:49:01 +0100, Rachel Quarrell
<quarrell@raven.linux.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>To Eef,
>
>Buy Masterharper of Pern - it's excellent and one you should have on the
>list, especially if you haven't read it. One of the best.
>
>Just started hunting Pern/McCaffrey newsgroups for the first time, having
>been a huge fan for far too many years to admit to. The reason? A brief
>comment in an article in the Guardian Guide this Saturday suggesting that
>plans for a Pern film franchise are underway.
>
>Anybody know about this? Just rumour, or likely to happen? IMDB has it
>as a project in development, but that may not mean it's got very far yet.
>
>
>On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Eef Hartman wrote:
>
>> Andrew Wiskow <wiskow@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> time, I even ran a Pern-themed BBS in Portland, Oregon, called Cove
>>> Hold BBS! Anyone here remember BBS's? ;)
>>
>> Yes, I used to run a FidoNet BBS for the Dutch Pascal User Group
>> in those days, and it also had a section, devoted to SF.
>>
>>> and addictive as they were the first time I had read them! I've
>>> finished reading all the books that I had originally read, and I'm now
>>> about halfway through The Renegades of Pern.
>>
>> As has been remarked here before, the later books, although ok, do
>> not have that same feeling to them anymore.
>>
>> But I've got most of the Pern books (and read a few more through
>> the library), so I'll say you still got some catching up to do....
>>
>> PS:
>> these are the ones I've got, on order of me buying them:
>> Dragonflight
>> Dragonquest
>> Dragonsong
>> Dragonsinger
>> The white dragon
>> Dragondrums
>> Moreta: dragonlady of Pern
>> Nerilka's story
>> Dragonsdawn
>> The renegades of Pern
>> All the Weyrs of Pern
>> The dolphins of Pern
>>
>> And, according to www.fantasticfiction.co.uk, this is what else
>> is available:
>> Dragon's eye (aka Red Star Rising)
>> Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
>> The Dolphin's Bell
>> The Masterharper of Pern
>> The Skies of Pern
>> and, in collobaration with her son Todd:
>> Dragon's Kin
>> Dragon's Fire
>> Dragon Harper
>>
>> Unlike that site, I don't consider Get off the Unicorn to be
>> in the Pern universe.
>> --
>> ********************************************************************
>> ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. EWI/TW **
>> ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman@math.tudelft.nl, fax: +31-15-278 7295 **
>> ** snail-mail: P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands **
>> ********************************************************************
>>
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