Spokavriel wrote: She also wrote other series. She even passed the torch not too long ago to her son Todd. I hope her funeral will be noted at least half as gloriously as she wrote for Master Harper Robinton.
Yeah I know. She also wrote the Doona books, Crytal Singer books, Planet Pirates trilogy, Acorna boooks, telepath books, and numerous short stories. I just chose those two as they were her more well known ones and she was
very protective of Pern and was, apparently, reluctant to let Todd write about Pern. She also did not care for fanfiction but (if I remember correctly), around the time that Todd started writing Pern novels, she had relaxed her stance on fanfiction.
When I was a child my mother read to me The Dragon Riders of Pern, The Lord of the Rings, and the Belgariad. One of the first adult novels I read was the Harperhall of Pern (an omnibus containing the Harperhall trilogy from the Sci-Fi book club) which I then followed with every book written by Anne McCaffery (for the next ten years) that I could find (including Get Off the Unicorn the only copy of which I'd ever seen was in my high school's library).
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Shinji: Well suppose some mysterious entities were attacking, and
Asuka:Oh please, Baka Shinji, that sounds like some cheap, pseudo-profound T.V. show. Low budget. Ambiguous ending.
-Asuka and Shinji discussing why you would build a giant robot. NGE: Shinji Ikari Raising Project Vol.6