Dragon pictures...
skutter
Does anyone know of any web/ftp sites for scanned images of the
dragons on _her_ books?.... I'd love one as wallpaper. :)
Also just any good Dragon-series web site links would be appriciated.
I've really only just started reading the books.... And now I can't
stop! :)
One question (as I've just subscirbed)... Does everyone read them in
order or what? I started to but was then too tempted to get
Dragonsdawn after I'd read Dragonquest, before which I read The Whit
Dragon and before that Dragonflight. So I suppose I've kinda messed up
the reading order a bit huh?
byes for now,
....John.
Nite Flame
Greetings John,
If you do a web-search under Anne McCaffrey, Pern, or Dragons you will find
quite a few sites. I don't know about the scanned images.
BTW IMHO it doesn't really matter if you read the books out of order,
especially if your like me and like to reread them. It's pretty easy to
figure out the timeline.
BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in the
stories (the picture book "The people of Pern" mentioned that she and F'nor
had quite a few kids, but I've never seen them mentioned anywhere else), as
well as Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter-can't think of her
name right now <sigh>)
Clear skies,
Niteflame
skutter <sku...@venefica.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<3303040...@news.compulink.co.uk>...
Nite Flame
Greetings (again) John,
I did a little searching for you and found a couple of sites that have
links to other sites so I'm sure you'll find something to your liking.
http://www.firesong.demon.co.uk/ and www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/pern.html I
hope that this will help
Niteflame
skutter
On 13 Feb 1997 17:01:25 GMT, "Nite Flame" <NitF...@vnet.net> wrote:
>BTW IMHO it doesn't really matter if you read the books out of order,
>especially if your like me and like to reread them. It's pretty easy to
>figure out the timeline.
Reading them out of order hasn't 'spoilt' any of the earlier books for
me (yet). I was just wondering if it really did make a difference. I
seem to have this habbit on going into the bookshop without really
knowing which one to get, and then just taking my fancy there. (As it
were...) :)
>BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in the
>stories
Yeah! She has an amazing character. Though saying that I have only
read 4 of the books out of.... How many are there in the series
exactly?
>(the picture book "The people of Pern" mentioned that she and F'nor
Picture book?
I think some shopping is in order.... :)
Cheers,
John.
David A. Six
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, skutter wrote:
>
> One question (as I've just subscirbed)... Does everyone read them in
> order or what? I started to but was then too tempted to get
> Dragonsdawn after I'd read Dragonquest, before which I read The Whit
> Dragon and before that Dragonflight. So I suppose I've kinda messed up
> the reading order a bit huh?
John, don't know how old you are but I started reading after Nerilka was
published. So I read the original trilogy followed by Moreta and Nerilka
and then back to the Harper Hall trilogy. As I was buying Dragonquest to
be able to reread it lots more I saw Dragonsdawn in Hardcover. I was so
anxious for it, but couldn't afford being in 8th grade at the time.
ANyway I did get it and have read everything in order of publication since
then. I guess I had a real appreciation for the early stories by having
read the other stories. I do remember the thrill of not knowing for sure
what Pern was and what thread meant when I read Dragonflight. For anyone
with a fantasy leaning read Dragonflight first and the reast in
publication order. For those into science fiction more read Dragonflight
first and then the rest in publication order. I guess girls and boys
would identify with the Harper Hall trilogy and the read everything else
in publication order. The only exception to the publication order is the
short stories in Chronicles that really can be read right after
Dragonsdawn to have those juices still flowing.
Dave
Lisa Spencer
A resource center for Pern fanatics and anyone else interested in
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All books are copyrighted by Anne McCaffrey. Art by Michael Whelan
David A. Six
On 13 Feb 1997, Nite Flame wrote:
> BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in the
> had quite a few kids, but I've never seen them mentioned anywhere else), as
> well as Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter-can't think of her
> name right now <sigh>)
Nite Flame who is Skip? I think it's Piemur, but don't recall that nick.
Jancis is his young lady and Fandarel's granddaughter.
I think that Ista Weyr by The Alms has a cool story about what might have
been with F'nor and Brekke and Canth and Wirenth, and Ruth and another
special dragon queen of the silver variety who just happened to have been
helped out at Hatching by Sharra. It made me realize that Brekke and
F'nor need more story time. So I agree.
Dave
David A. Six
Karen Wynn Fonstad from my good ole state of Wisconsin. I actually ran
into her son when I started talking about Anne McCaffrey. Needless to say
I thought he was cool cause his mom wrote The Atlas.
Did you ever notice pictures/sketches from the Atlas in DLG?
Dave
Pen
Nite Flame wrote:
>
>
> well as Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter-can't think of her
>
> Ummmmm... SKIP? Piemur? and Jancis? Or did I miss a charactor?! :-)
If you're talking about Piemur, I'd love to see some more about him and
Jancis. Piemur was quite a computer buff when we last saw him in ATWOP,
but he was not mentioned in DOP. :-( I'd love to see how that
relationship (between him and Jancis) went, I know they had at least one
kid. What did Piemur do with the rest of his life?
And Menolly, DG says she's got four kids, but the books only mention
three of them. Hmmmmm....I think she should have a young daughter who
wants to wear pretty dresses and act dumb-- or a kid who hates music and
wants to go fishing all the time...it would be ironic.
Sorry, I'm in a bit of a mean mood--an ice storm missed our school by
about 1/2 inch on the map, and I have a test tomorrow. Schools will not
be closing. :-( [Yes, here in south carolina we close schools/colleges
when there's an ice storm]
Nat
>
>>BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in the
> >stories
> Yeah! She has an amazing character. Though saying that I have only
> read 4 of the books out of.... How many are there in the series
> exactly?
The dichotomy (I consider myself a "student" of Pern as sf literature) is
as follows:
FIRST PASS (2)
-Dragonsdawn (from the landing on Pern to the first fall flown by dragons)
-The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (five stories stretching from the
evacuation of Landing up to 40 years after landing, where it explains why
those bloodsucking FSP salvagers are still leaving Pern alone today.
SECOND PASS (1)
-Red Star Rising: The Second Chronicles of Pern (New, DRAGONSEYE in the
States, and worth every thirty-second you pay for it) (Explains a lot of
customs e.g. Spring Festival (Turn's End), the Star Stones, Teaching
Ballads, the Crafthalls, etc.)
SIXTH (?) PASS (2)
-Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern (haven't read it; anyone who read Dragonsinger
will know what it's about anyway)
-Nerilka's Story (a novella in the volume Nerilka's Story and the Coelura,
of which the latter has absolutely nothing to do with Pern) (haven't read
it either)
NINTH PASS (which is the "current" one) (12)
Short stories:
-Weyr Search (supposedly to be up on Del Rey's site soon)
-The Smallest Dragonboy (in the collection Get Off The Unicorn, which I
think is OOP? Is it true some of you Americans have done this for
Literature? Lucky you.)
-The Girl Who Heard Dragons (in the collection of the same name; this one's
worth it just for the "So, You're Anne McCaffrey" section.)
Dragonriders Trilogy:
-Dragonflight ("First, better, best." - Anonymous shipfish; Lessa's story
from being taken from Ruatha up to the Five Lost Weyrs coming home)
-Dragonquest (7 Turns after DF; Oldtimers becoming annoying; Holders
becoming annoyinger (?); ends with Canth and F'nor's trip to the Red Star)
-The White Dragon (Jaxom's story; from Ruth's first flight with Jaxom up to
his Confirmation as Lord Holder)
Harper Hall Trilogy:
-Dragonsong (Menolly runs away from home and somehow gets to Benden Weyr)
-Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern (Menolly goes to the Harper Hall and becomes
a journeyman)
-Dragondrums (Piemur goes on all sorts of wild errands for the Harper Hall
and becomes a journeyman too)
Thread's End Trilogy (as I classify it :)
-Renegades of Pern (from Fax's ascendancy all the way to discovery of
AIVAS)
-All the Weyrs of Pern (from discovery of AIVAS up to Masterharper
Robinton's funeral)
-The Dolphins of Pern (from Readis and Alemi's fishing trip mentioned in
ATWOP up to Readis's becoming a dolphineer)
SPINOFFERY:(5)
-The People of Pern (a book sorta like a "photo gallery" of Pern, done by
artist Robin Wood)
-The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (by Jody Lynn Nye with Anne; check out the
Del Rey site for more info. A sorta Pern sourcebook.)
-The Atlas of Pern (by Kathy...somebody. I haven't heard a lot about this,
but WOULD like to see it, if only to plot Threadfall patterns...)
-Two Choose Your Own Adventure style books, published under the now defunct
"Crossroads" imprint from some publisher, and written by Jody Lynn Nye. All
the info I could gather (pun not intended) was that one is about
Masterharper Robinton and the other about Mirrim. Why anyone would want to
play Mirrim is anybody's guess... :)
Soon to be finished (not counted):
-Dragonharper (in which Anne does a bio of ex-Masterharper Robinton,
possibly one of the coolest Pernese ever.)
Total:
Solely by Anne:
12 novels
1 collection of short stories (First Fall)
1 novella
3 short stories published in other collections
17 total
By others, individually or with Anne:
2 CYOA novels by Jody Lynn Nye
1 reference by Jody and Anne
1 reference by... who?
1 reference by... SOMEONE with art by Robin Wood
5 total
22 total works based on Pern, not counting fan fiction, computer games,
MUDs etc.
Nite Flame
Thanks David,
I was thinking of Piemur, but got him confused with another rascal named
Skip in Mercedes Lackey's stories. Sorry about the mix-up (actually it was
a Brain Fart (a misfire)) <g>
Niteflame
David A. Six <ds...@checfs2.ucsd.edu> wrote in article
<Pine.GSO.3.95.970213...@checfs2.ucsd.edu>...
> On 13 Feb 1997, Nite Flame wrote:
> > BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in
the
> > stories (the picture book "The people of Pern" mentioned that she and
F'nor
> > had quite a few kids, but I've never seen them mentioned anywhere
else), as
> > well as Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter-can't think of
her
NOVEIL4ME
<<Thanks David,
I was thinking of Piemur, but got him confused with another rascal named
Skip in Mercedes Lackey's stories. Sorry about the mix-up (actually it
was
a Brain Fart (a misfire)) <g>
Niteflame>>
Uh not to be overly picky but his name is Skif, not Skip. Close though!
very close! :)
Denise
skutter
>> Does everyone read them in
>> order or what? I started to but was then too tempted to get
>> Dragonsdawn after I'd read Dragonquest, before which I read The Whit
>> Dragon and before that Dragonflight. So I suppose I've kinda messed up
>> the reading order a bit huh?
>
>I think it ruins the surprises if you read them out of order. Especially
>if you read Dragonsdawn already! Geez...what were your thinking? Oh,
>well they're still great books, even out of order.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself... :( I know better now! :)
I was just so... 'Desperate' to learn more about what thread actually
was.
...John.
j...@mich.com
>John, don't know how old you are but I started reading after Nerilka was
>published. So I read the original trilogy followed by Moreta and Nerilka
>and then back to the Harper Hall trilogy.
Well... I'm not the same John... But I started reading PERN stories back when
the 1st one was published, Analog I think (Though I was reading two
publications back then so it could be the other one the name of which escapes
me just now) I mentioned this to A.M. and she quite accuratlly guessed my
age. (I was in High school at the time you see. School (THank them) had a
subscription in their library)
John F Davis. aa...@detroit.freenet.org, WA8YXM, j...@mich.Com
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clearly none of your business (O.A. Battista)
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thea
> skutter <sku...@venefica.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
> <3303040...@news.compulink.co.uk>...
> > Does anyone know of any web/ftp sites for scanned images of the
> > dragons on _her_ books?.... I'd love one as wallpaper. :)
> >
<snip...>
Hey there John,
I'm not sure what cover art you've got over there in the UK, but I've a
link to Michael Whelan's homepage off of VirtuaPernMoo's Links page. Check
it out:
http://www.virtuapern.txk.com/links.htm
He's got a /really/ nice assortment of his Pern cover art there (I've got
the ATWoP one as my wallpaper. :>)
Hope this helps!
Thea
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j...@mich.com wrote:
>
>... But I started reading PERN stories back when
>the 1st one was published, Analog I think (Though I was reading two
>publications back then so it could be the other one the name of which escapes
>me just now) I mentioned this to A.M. and she quite accuratlly guessed my
>age. (I was in High school at the time you see. School (THank them) had a
>subscription in their library)
I got hooked on A.M. and Pern the same time and same place (not same
school) through the short story "Weyr Search" in Analog. Couldn't
wait to find more of both. Can't believe its been 30 years.
"Dragonseye" has brought all the same excitement of discovery back,
can't wait for more. Let's hope for another 30 years for all of us..
Carmen Edwards
In a reply to a question about images for wallpaper, Nite Flame mentioned
"Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter...)"
WHO ON EARTH IS SKIP????
Sorry, I'll rephrase that.
WHO ON PERN IS SKIP???
I thought that Fandarel's grand daughter was Piemur's girl!
Yes, I would like to hear more of Brekke and F'nor. I also want more of
Lessa and F'lar and K'van and T'bor and Menolly and Sebell and Moreta and
Nerilka and Sorka and Sean and Torene and M'hall and....EVERYONE!
Nite Flame <NitF...@vnet.net> wrote in article
<01bc19d0$3a0aa780$50ae52a6@Crystal>...
> Greetings John,
> If you do a web-search under Anne McCaffrey, Pern, or Dragons you will
find
> quite a few sites. I don't know about the scanned images.
> BTW IMHO it doesn't really matter if you read the books out of order,
> especially if your like me and like to reread them. It's pretty easy to
> figure out the timeline.
> BTW is there anyone out there who would like to see more of Brekke in the
> stories (the picture book "The people of Pern" mentioned that she and
F'nor
> had quite a few kids, but I've never seen them mentioned anywhere else),
as
> well as Skip and his girlfriend (Fandrel's granddaughter-can't think of
her
> name right now <sigh>)
> Clear skies,
> Niteflame
>
>
ewill...@aol.com
Everyone seems to be talking about how they got into Pern
I picked up a copy of Dragonsong in a charity shop (thrift shop for Merkins), ignored the hideous cover and bought it anyway. Needless to say, I loved it!
A couple of days later, I started talking to a girl I knew slightly and recommended it to her. It only turned out she was the Masterharper and I the merest apprentice when it came to Pern! That was about three years ago and we're now bestest friends in the whole wide world. Don't it make you feel squidgy? :-)
Lena, rider of Kharanth