Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 15 2018, 10:13 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 670
Re: Pern Lives on
Oh, wow. I'm not sure how to feel. Is this actually gonna be a post-Thread novel? I might be willing to give it a shot if that's the case; to see what Pern's aging heroes are up to, and how everyone...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Oct 26 2016, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,292
Re: Funny Typos
I'm now imagining a giant bean with spindly bug legs rushing about. XD
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jul 16 2016, 03:34 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 7,634
Re: Jora
Because one taste of freedom is never enough.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 19 2016, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 10,239
Re: F'lar and Lessa: Why?
Not to mention that sex creates emotional bonding chemicals in a woman's brain. A "nice" li'l trick biology plays on us.
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Forum: Games and Miscellany
Mar 16 2016, 01:21 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 676
Fly with us at Triad Weyrs!
In a Pern years after AIVAS shut itself down, the Southern Continent has been well populated, Thread is a distant memory, all is well-
Yeah, no, Thread came back eight years ago because orbits can...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Feb 18 2016, 03:19 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 21 2016, 03:21 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
Re: Dragonchoice 3 - coming soon (ish)
I just read the latest chapter. Turns out my previous freakout was justified. My poor little mind, it is blown. If y'all haven't caught up yet, you need to. GirlSlick is taking us on one helluva...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 8 2016, 02:06 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
Re: Dragonchoice 3 - coming soon (ish)
(EVEN MORE SPASTIC KERMIT-FLAILING) OMAGAAAAWD! The plot's gotten so thick it may as well be a hearty herdbeast stew and we're only eleven chapters in! Everyone to the Panic Room! Strap yourselves to...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 3 2016, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 3 2016, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,948
Re: Happy new year!!!
2015 was horrible to me, my family, and everyone I know, even in passing. So I dearly hope 2016 treats us, one and all -and all of you, of course- with the kindness and dignity we deserve.
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 24 2015, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,497
AO3 in precarious position?
Rumor has it the entire management team of Archive of Our Own stepped down. Keep your ears out for more news, all my former fellow fanficcers.
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Nov 20 2015, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Nov 13 2015, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Apr 22 2015, 02:57 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,917
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Forum: The Library Café
Feb 27 2015, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,708
Re: R.I.P T'khar Spock
Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan and DeForest Kelly are all together now. They're sharing some Romulan ale and listening to Mr. Nimoy's poetry. Soon they'll be joining other iconic legends on a great...
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Forum: Talent: Pegasus, Tower & Hive, and Barque Cats
Oct 9 2014, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,090
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Sep 25 2014, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 247
Views: 22,126
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Forum: Talent: Pegasus, Tower & Hive, and Barque Cats
Jul 12 2014, 01:57 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,275
Re: Green vs. Yellow
It could be in "Damia's Children" or "Lyon's Pride" that Kaltia was mentioned as having Capella-yellow eyes.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 25 2014, 10:20 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,357
Re: Star Stones shift?
Now I know what happens when an astrophysicist gets cheesed off: We all hear thought-provoking stuff. ^n_n^
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 20 2014, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,400
Re: AU: What would YOU change?
I think I'd change F'lar's way of handling Lessa. (Well, maybe not mocking her over the knife wound he got fighting Fax. She needed to see her actions had consequences.) But imagine what F'lar and...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 21 2014, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,515
Re: Deconstructions
Do you mean "tenuous position"?
And I think you're right; Ramoth was the better deal, so Lessa accepted her. There might've been times during her Weyr education that she wished she hadn't,...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 18 2014, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,613
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 15 2014, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,515
Re: Deconstructions
This person is forgetting that Mrs. McCaffrey was a product of the time she grew up in. Everything about F'lar, F'nor, and Lessa, even their unpalatable traits, was considered pretty daring at the...
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 1 2014, 12:54 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 981
Re: Happy birthday anne
Happy birthday, Mrs. McCaffrey. Thank you for everything. I'll raise a glass of chocolate wine when it's properly April first in Colorado.
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 28 2014, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 27 2014, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
I think I can finally say something with some coherency, other than just "Daaaamn." Though I did say that a lot while reading.
Okay. Wow. Um. Right. Maybe coherency isn't possible after all....
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 26 2014, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,859
Re: Who are you fav. writers besides Anne?
I count my favorites (besides Mrs. McCaffrey) as the authors who were obsessively chased down and stayed on my bookshelves (or bookmarked on my computer) while I sold or gave away others. So, in no...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 15 2014, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 15 2014, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 6,929
Re: He was HOW old?
F'lessan was twelve too, among other boys in his class. Didn't he have a reputation for getting around as well when he got older? Why the heck were boys as young as twelve allowed onto the sands? Why...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 15 2014, 01:35 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
As heartbreaking as the story's been, I'll be sorry when it's done. Only two chapters left now, right?
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 7 2014, 02:20 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
I will. Despite everything, I'm hooked, so I'll be dangling on your lure a while longer. ^n_n^
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 6 2014, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
This part made me late to work because I couldn't stop reading, and then I finished it at work on my phone while I was sorting stock. I was right: There's no way there's gonna be a happy ending.
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Mar 1 2014, 10:42 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 3,221
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Feb 16 2014, 02:39 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
I don't think there's any way there's going to be a happy ending. But you're welcome.
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Feb 15 2014, 10:59 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
It was said on one of the back covers of my favorite manga that "It isn't a real apocalypse if it can't get even worse."
Congratulations, Kath: It got even worse. You created an apocalypse in...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Feb 1 2014, 12:47 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
(glows) You're very welcome. ^n_n^
Anyway, this is a complex ficworld you've woven for us. It's a little hard to keep up with it all, but that could be my general inability to comprehend complex...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 29 2014, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,274
Re: The Regicide
You asked about a fanfic in chapter twenty-six. Does this one seem familiar? It has to do with a mislaid egg and what might have been an impression in the last chapter. It was published in 2007....
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 12 2014, 12:46 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,954
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 5 2014, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,954
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 4 2014, 03:37 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,954
Why aren't two greens rising a problem?
We keep hearing how bad it is for other golds to be around one who's rising. Why isn't the same fuss made over two greens rising at the same time? That's bound to have happened at some point, right?
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 1 2014, 02:10 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,782
Happy 2014, everyone.
(raises skinny mug of chocolate wine) Here's to us, the fans of one of the best fandoms in the world.
I hope the year brings you the things you want and need, good health, enough time with your...
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Forum: Talent: Pegasus, Tower & Hive, and Barque Cats
Dec 19 2013, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 17,902
Re: Any real talents in here?
Sorry to bring back a dead thread, but I have a feeling my adoptive mom might be a little psychic. She recently revealed to me that she has correctly been able to guess children's conception dates...
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Forum: Beyond Anne McCaffrey
Jul 6 2013, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 7,006
Re: Books that make you laugh out loud
Currently, the book that's making me laugh the most is Michael A. Stackpole's "Wolf and Raven", and that's after years of owning it. ^n_n^ The main character, Wolfgang Kies, is such a smarta-- that...
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 10 2013, 01:00 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 6,312
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Dec 21 2012, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,222
Re: References to Pern in other material
The mention of Tara K. Harper is interesting, as Mrs. McCaffrey said the "Wolfwalker" novels were particular favorites of hers, and Shelly Shapiro, executive editor of Del Rey Books, said the...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Dec 21 2012, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,827
Re: Food -- Bacon on PERN?
Milk and bread are good neutralizers for acid reflux. Water isn't.
Wicker's on Pern, too, mostly in the deep southern holds.
I don't remember turkeys, but I do remember chickens and geese,...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Dec 6 2012, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,472
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 26 2012, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,126
"Flying to the Moon" by Michael Collins.
Printed in the 1994 July edition of Cricket Magazine.
Twenty-five years ago, on 20 July 1969, Michael Collins watches through the window of the command module Columbia as it orbits sixty miles...
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 26 2012, 03:04 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,126
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 17 2012, 02:10 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 10,585
Re: Sky Dragons
Maybe a little sad, since books should be looked forward to. But after reading what people here have said about Mr. Todd's work, I wasn't impressed either. :-/ So I just won't read 'em. That doesn't...
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