Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!caip!daemon
From: MRC@PANDA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: post-WHITE DRAGON era
Message-ID: <1152@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 15:16:50 EST
Article-I.D.: caip.1152
Posted: Sat Feb  1 15:16:50 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 08:55:32 EST
Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 24

From: Mark Crispin <MRC%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>

     I dispute the comment about F'lar being about 60 at the end of THE
WHITE DRAGON.  If F'lar was 19 when R'gul took over, then R'gul's decade
as Weyrleader plus Jaxom's age would make F'lar in his late 40's or early
50's.  However, that is certainly old enough to make it unlikely that he
would see the end of Threadfall, 30+ years hence.  Robinton would probably
be about 70, since his father was 90ish when he died at Half Circle Sea
Hold a few years earlier.

     I doubt that McCaffrey will write a post-WHITE DRAGON story, but
here are some of my predictions: they will rediscover the telephone (a
primitive version already existed for short distances) but not flight.
The dragonriders will diverge into transportation, at rather stiff fares
to make up for the inevitable lost tithings.  Mirrim will not be the last
female greenrider; the percentage of woman greenriders will continue to
increase until women became the majority.  Increasingly, there will be
discrimination and oppression against male greenriders, only hinted at in
the Dragonrider series.  Sebell will be MasterHarper, and Mennoly a
master, something will continue to raise opposition.

     However, in general, there won't be much to write about.  Pernese
future looks fairly well-established, after millenia of stagnation.
-------