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From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: post-WHITE DRAGON era
Message-ID: <160@proper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 03:25:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 03:25:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Feb-86 00:59:53 EST
References: <1152@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <12500161@uiucdcs> <11845@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: carl@vision.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
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In article <11845@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jablow@brahms.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) writes:
>Perhaps I should have sent this to net.rumor, but here goes:
>
>Look at all the teenagers running around at 
>conventions wearing dragon dolls and thinking ONLY about dragons.
Oh, come on.  I have a nice dragon doll that is very good for boffing
people about the head with when they make bad puns.  The type is sewn
by costuming maniacs (and good friends of mine) who are out of teenagerhood.
>Suggestion for a novel:
>		   THE SWORD OF SHARRA
>	by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffery
>
>In the (chronologically) last Darkover novel, THE WORLD WRECKERS, 
>the telepaths of Darkover made a telepathic call to all the other
>telepaths of the galaxy.  Well, just imagine that Pern is in the
>same galaxy and same future history.
Didn't you read the last story in _Sword of Chaos_?  It was titled
"A Recipe for Failure", by Millea Kenin, and the dragon Broth and his
rider T'Spoon had appeared there...  So why imagine???
>The telepaths of Pern get the
>call.  Who interpets it?  What is the most powerfully telepathic
>race on Pern? And who is its most powerful telepath?  Of course,
>the Dragons, and Ruth in particular.  So, Ruth starts getting 
>irrestible visions of a planet orbiting a red sun (Hee. Hee!).
And comes out in vacuum, orbiting Liriel.  Great.  Dragons meet
explosive decompression.  Try high mountains with a red sun at noon,
better to go on...  (Hmmm, now do dragons have a homing instinct so
they won't come out in vacuum?  Canth going the the Red Star would
have been pretty high in the atmosphere..)
>He tells Jaxom and Sharra (Remember that name?), and after much
>dithering they decide to go.  They get there, look around in shock, 
>have some adventures, and barely escape with their lives.  They go
>back, consult with Ruatha and the Harpers, and Pern and Darkover start 
>dealing in earnest.  Watch out as
>
>	Pernians start getting very confused by Darkover sexual mores.
Since when did Darkovans have sexual mores?
>	Darkoverans start getting very confused by Pern sexual mores.
Since when did the Pernese have sexual mores?
>	Someone decides to go Dragon-hunting, and comes to a very bad end.
They have a fairy-tale on Darkover with some son of Hastur lamenting it,
so I guess dragons would be a bit more popular than THAT...  But with all
them Comyn conservatives....  Actually, seems a bit of a parallel with the
oldies thinking queens can't chew firestone and ride in Fall and Keepers
must be virgins...
>
>You can add whatever speculations you wish.  It will sell big bucks, 
>divided two ways of course, but it will be a greatly profitable book 
>all the same.  I expect to see it soon.
>
Ack!  Phhht!
						Carl Greenberg