Dragaera

Guilty pleasures?

Richard Suitor rsuitor at cjwrfs.net
Sat Jul 20 08:49:55 PDT 2002

On 20 Jul 2002 10:19:33 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net>
wrote:
>
>Starshadw at aol.com writes:
>
>> -mumbles very low-  Anne McCaffrey  -slinks away-
>
>Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and Dragonsong and Dragonsinger I remember
>fondly.  About when White Dragon came out I realized she'd lost it. 

Anne McCaffrey has written quite a bit.  Perhaps White Dragon is a
good watermark.  I don't think anyone need feel guilty about most of
the earlier ones.  The later were mostly extruded, but the market
seemed to think that these were better than no more McCaffrey.  The
market seems to generate this phenomenon a lot.

It is a perennial Heinlein discussion - I should have added Time
Enough for Love to my guilty pleasures, but I'm not going to
apologize for revisiting Double Star or Citizen or early McCaffrey
or even early Xanth.  (and I don't revisit later Xanth, but, in
fairness, Anthony obviously changed his target audience).

Richard