Dragaera

Anne McCaffrey (was: If you like Robert Jordan)

Tue Aug 17 23:14:19 PDT 2004

--- Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hmmm.  She's "co-written" scads of stuff, which
> undoubtedly means that 
> she did supervisory work and the other author did
> all the real writing.  
> Can you point to anything that she *says* she wrote
> and didn't?
> 
> I agree that her best was a long time ago, and I
> wish she'd just let it 
> go with dignity.


Has anyone read her "Freedom" series?  It is pretty
recent (I think the fourth book was released just last
year) and quite a departure from the Pern novels.  I
have read the first three books in the series and
really enjoyed them.  Instead of dragonriders and
singing ships, the Freedom series is about alien
invasions, colonial survival on an alien planet, and a
fight for liberation.  Much more sci-fi than fantasy. 
I would agree that her earlier stuff was her best, but
I think she can still tell a good story when she isn't
trying to stretch the Pern world farther than it
should ever have gone. 
 
Has anyone read "Pegasus in Space" and the related
series?  I saw those at the bookstore recently and
wasn't sure if I was up for giving them a try or not. 
I believe some of the books in the series were written
a number of years ago and then she released "Pegasus
in Space" as a follow-up recently.  Does anyone have a
recommendation one way or the other?

Amy




	
		
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