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From: friedman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: post-WHITE DRAGON era
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:37:00 EST
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Mark Crispin writes:

>      I doubt that McCaffrey will write a post-WHITE DRAGON story, but....

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

McCaffrey has already answered some of these points.  Thanks to Tim Smith, we
have an edited transcript of the 1985 Anne McCaffrey conference on Compuserve.

At the risk of some redundancy, here are some pertinent McCaffrey quotes about
the post-WHITE DRAGON era on Pern:

	Yes, Joe, more Thread stories are coming...
	not immediately however.  Hang in there.

	F'lar does eventually die in Threadfall
	but don't grieve for him yet.

	There will be more about Jaxom and Ruth.  Later.

	Yup.  [to the question:]  Anne, do the Dragon Riders ever
	get to the colony ships in orbit?

As to the notion that there won't be much to write about:  My imagination's
not that good, and maybe Mark's isn't either, but my bet is that McCaffrey's
is.  I'm looking forward to it.

       		H. George Friedman, Jr.
       		Department of Computer Science
       		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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