Pern Fandom, part 1
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DRAGONWEB Listing of Known, Active, Pern Fan Groups
Fall 1993 Edition (Version 1a)
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Copyright (c) 1993 by Randall Stukey. Permission to
publish or to post online is granted so long as this notice
is included.
Updates and changes to this list should be sent to Randall
Stukey at either at the Dragonweb snail mail address (see
below) or any of following email addresses:
GEnie: R.STUKEY
Delphi: RSTUKEY
Internet: r.st...@genie.geis.com
rst...@delphi.com
Fidonet: 1:387/31.150*
* use this only as a last resort.
Updates and changes can also be posted to
the DragonWeb topic on GEnie.
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I. What is DragonWeb
DragonWeb is the unofficial Pern Fandom Welcommittee,
sponsored by Argon of Cantee. DragonWeb publishes a
quarterly list of active Pern fan groups.
II. Qualifying for a Listing
In order to qualify for a listing, a group must:
a) accept offline members.
b) have a regularly published (hardcopy) newsletter or
fanzine.
c) generally follow the rules set down by Anne
McCaffrey for Pern fan groups.
A group is considered to meet the second qualification if
it has published at least one newsletter or fanzine in the
previous twelve months. Listed groups which fail to meet
this requirement will be removed from this listing.
As for the third qualification, Anne's rules are briefly
summarized here:
1) No one may use any of the people or dragons that
have appeared in any of Anne's novels or stories.
This also prohibits having one of Anne's
character's as an ancestor or using her characters
in fan fiction in any way.
2) All fan activities take place on alternate versions
of Pern, none are allowed on the "real" Pern that
Anne sets her novels and stories on.
3) No male characters on golds, no female characters on
bronzes.
4) No group may set up as Benden Weyr or Rautha Hold.
5) With a few exceptions for the oldest Pern fan
groups, no "sport" dragon colors may be used.
6) Groups that operate online may not publish fan
fiction online. This prohibits online interactive
stories and online roleplaying (which are almost
the same thing anyway) as well as uploading fan
fiction to online file areas. This does not
prohibit the development of characters online or
the general discussion of specific pieces of fan
fiction online, so long no stories are being
published online.
If your group meets all the above qualifications and would
like to be added to the next quarterly DragonWeb listing,
please get in contact with me at any of my addresses. I'll
need to know the name of your group, the name of your
group's newsletter or fanzine, and the snail mail address
of a contact person for your group.
Taki Kogoma
should be stated that PernMUSH, SouconMUSH, and DragonsfireMOO have
Explicit permission from Anne McCaffrey to operate. I am personally
unaware of the status of the other Pern-themed MU*s.
--
Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) kog...@unm.edu
I'll get a life when someone demonstrates it would be superior to
what I have now.
Vicki Finkenstadt
>Before we have yet another incarnation of this popular flamewar, it
>should be stated that PernMUSH, SouconMUSH, and DragonsfireMOO have
>Explicit permission from Anne McCaffrey to operate. I am personally
>unaware of the status of the other Pern-themed MU*s.
>--
CrystalMush (moink.nmsu.edu 6886) also has permission from AM
to recreate her Crystal_Singer/Killashandra world.
Samira@CM
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Jacqueline Hamilton
>Before we have yet another incarnation of this popular flamewar, it
>should be stated that PernMUSH, SouconMUSH, and DragonsfireMOO have
>Explicit permission from Anne McCaffrey to operate. I am personally
>unaware of the status of the other Pern-themed MU*s.
I wrote to Anne prior to the opening of Harper's Tale MOO and also got
permission. For the curious, you can logon (netman.widener.edu 8888)
and read '@read 1 on *anne', as I loaded her reply into a mailing list online
so anyone can read it.
-j.
Kira, Harper's Tale MOO
ki...@feenix.metronet.com
MajorBBS: Raven
IK>Before we have yet another incarnation of this popular flamewar, it
IK>should be stated that PernMUSH, SouconMUSH, and DragonsfireMOO have
IK>Explicit permission from Anne McCaffrey to operate. I am personally
IK>unaware of the status of the other Pern-themed MU*s.
IK>--
IK>Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) kog...@unm.edu
IK> I'll get a life when someone demonstrates it would be superior to
IK> what I have now.
Flamewar? Over what? The fact that Anne has chosen to deal differently
with different aspects of her fandom? What I uploaded is the rules and
regs used by those online groups that publish pernese fanfiction. [tho'
I think Randall erred on #6, but this is not the place to debate it with
him -- I can do that on GEnie :)] Pern Fandom (to differentiate it from
PernMUSH, etc) writes fiction based on worlds designed upon her
universe. Although there is role-playing involved, it's not a role
playing =game=. There's differents in approach and application and
because of this, she's laying down different rules. I, for one, have no
objections to this. So you'll get no flaming from me. :)