Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Apr 25 2022, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 10,181
Re: Are you an Anne McCaffrey collector?
Are these the covers you're thinking of:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70157706667793259/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28543.Dragonsong
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188799409348785724/
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Apr 17 2022, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 7,269
Re: Nothing New on Ebay?
Hans's information would have come from the Hargreaves bibliography of Anne's works. Using Bookfinder.com , I found a number of copies for sale - prices range wildly from $30 to $200. It is a very...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 4 2022, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
Re: What is Happening, part II
User profile looks like a bot. Anyone in the banned group can't even view the forum/threads if they're logged in, so the bot can't even crawl the site to try to mine data. Pretty stupidly programmed...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Dec 29 2021, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 706
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Forum: The Information Desk and Suggestion Box
Dec 29 2021, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,129
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Dec 1 2021, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 26,676
Re: Domick and Menolly
In the Harper Hall books, this is the timeline.
In the Mastersinger of Pern book, this may be contradicted, and certainly the timeline of that book makes him be much older than Menolly.
Anne...
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Forum: Crystal Singer and Brainships
Dec 1 2021, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,806
Re: Crystal Singer Question
I recall that Lars was hired by Optheria (not the Heptite guild) to injure her, to prove the rumored fast-healing possessed by crystal singers (and thereby prove her to be a true singer as well). It...
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Forum: The Library Café
Oct 8 2021, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
Re: What is Happening, part II
We had a rare power outage, which knocked out the site.
BD, I'm glad you're on the mend; what you've been through medically sounds very frightening!
Allen, I'm so sorry for the loss of your...
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Forum: The Library Café
Sep 11 2021, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 312
Views: 11,914
Re: New MoM playground?
Mausey, you are hereby placed in charge of the library - books and decor - as you clearly have wisdom to bear upon it!
Now, who wants to be in charge of the snack room?
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Forum: The Library Café
Sep 10 2021, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 312
Views: 11,914
Re: New MoM playground?
From the description, I hope you can tell that it sounds very much like a Pernese Hold. It is the perfect protected spot for scared holders to hide from Threadfall - although they need to get rid of...
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Forum: The Library Café
Sep 10 2021, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 312
Views: 11,914
Re: New MoM playground?
Ginny - I'm sorry for not thinking to include an image description. Here you go:
Both images are very similar, just taken from different angles and elevations, so this description works for both....
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Forum: The Library Café
Sep 8 2021, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 312
Views: 11,914
New MoM playground?
Long, long ago Hans posted a picture of a building in Europe that had decorative scrollwork that seemed to spell MOM, and we (we being the forum members at that time) decided to virtually appropriate...
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Forum: Doona and Dinosaur Planet/Planet Pirates
Aug 15 2021, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 603
Re: Healing in coldsleep?
I agree that coldsleep ought to involve slowing down metabolism to near zero, which would then impede the body's ability to heal.
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 15 2021, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 13 2021, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
Re: What is Happening, part II
Somewhere I have a couple of pocket dragons still boxed, bought to be prizes for PernQuest that either never joined the prize pool or were never selected. I have a few other leftover prizes, and...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 13 2021, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 925
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Aug 13 2021, 06:04 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 10,181
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 10 2021, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
Re: What is Happening, part II
It is nice to this place get active again, with a great mix of new members and familiar faces. I almost shut it down a couple years ago, but wanted to throw an online party ahead of it and never got...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 9 2021, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 998
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 9 2021, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,909
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 9 2021, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,108
Re: Hello everyone!
Hi RedVelveteer, welcome to MoM!
The fanbase is much smaller than it used to me, and this forum much quieter (though we're having a minor resurgence right now). There's a group on FB but it seems...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 31 2021, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
Re: What is Happening, part II
Zelandanth, I agree that starting a separate thread for your car posts would be sensible. Because of the length they tend to be and their frequency, they can overpower the rest of the posts.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 29 2021, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 1,495
Views: 52,680
What is Happening, part II
The original What is Happening thread had grown ridiculously long, and I have closed it and started this new one! Let us know what you've been up to lately; I'll start...
The biggest thing...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 29 2021, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
Re: What is happening
At 150 pages, this thread is ridiculously long. I'm officially declaring it done, and will lock it and open a new one.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 29 2021, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
Re: picture
Don't worry about it, Ginny. Hans is going to find the original photo, which he has somewhere... It'll be much easier for him than for you to sort out. But your offer of help is much appreciated!
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Forum: Beyond Anne McCaffrey
Jul 28 2021, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 896
Re: `
You remembered correctly, the Beyond Between story is found in Legends II.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 28 2021, 05:57 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
Re: What is happening
My copy is packed away, unfortunately, or I'd copy it for you. I'll ping Hans and see if he has it handy. I hoped I might have a digital copy of it, but it seems I only have the essays from the...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jul 26 2021, 04:55 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,396
Re: Old Dragonsong/singer audiobook - with music
I've never seen it, but there was a cassette of filk (fan-created folk songs) that was partially or fully about Pern. I think it might have been called Storyteller. My bibliographic sources that...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jul 26 2021, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 760
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 26 2021, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
Re: What is happening
Cause it ain't that important!
At the bottom of the home page of the forum, the day's birthdays are noted. If you don't notice on the right day, you miss it! You can also look up birthday's on...
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Forum: All the Rest
Jul 26 2021, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 51,781
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Forum: All the Rest
Jul 26 2021, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 51,781
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 20 2021, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 15 2021, 03:58 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,356,288
Re: What is happening
Hi Ginny, welcome back! I'm sorry to hear you've lost the last of your vision, but glad you have helpers as you work out technology issues to be able to navigate on your own.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 11 2021, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 3,652
Views: 733,869
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jul 11 2021, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 10,181
Re: Are you an Anne McCaffrey collector?
As long as your collection makes you happy, that's all that matters!
(As for the thread saying there was a new post when there wasn't, I suspect it does that when there's a new vote.)
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 29 2021, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 987
Re: Trip to Ireland
A couple decades ago I got to go to Ireland along with Hans and Anneli from this forum (we've been Pern friends for longer than that), and meet Anne, see Dragonhold, and tour some local sites that...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jun 29 2021, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 995
Re: Signed Slipcased Editions
Yes! I own several of them, perhaps all the Brandywyne - it's been so long since I was an active collector, I can't recall if I managed to get all of them or not. Mostly they are of her...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 29 2021, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 790
Re: What happened on January 3, 2019?
Not a glitch per se, but there weren't that many real people either - we don't have close to that many members! It would have been bots, either friendly ones crawling the site to index it, or...
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Forum: Crystal Singer and Brainships
Jun 29 2021, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,806
Re: Crystal Singer Question
Did YA really exist as a marketing category when the Crystal Singer books were published? I feel like they predate it.
I agree that it seems an odd fit for CS - while they're fine for teens to...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 29 2021, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 3,652
Views: 733,869
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 6 2021, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 3,652
Views: 733,869
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Forum: The Library Café
May 22 2021, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,522
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Forum: The Library Café
May 22 2021, 12:24 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,522
Re: Testing!
I fixed it! Go me!
Of course at the same time I broke the site background graphic without touching it...
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Forum: The Library Café
May 21 2021, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,522
Re: Testing!
Ha ha ha! This is a pain in the butt to figure out. It may take days for me to have the time to dig into it. I thought it would simply display but it's buried deep in the code, bits I haven't messed...
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Forum: Announcements
May 21 2021, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 64,999
Re: Gender profile field change
So I've made some changes again. I was realizing recently that the whole reason I created the gender field in the first place was so that members would know the correct pronouns to use for each...
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Forum: Announcements
May 21 2021, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,046
Re: Forum email
Forum email has been fixed! You can use the Contact Us form successfully again, and newly registered members should now get email confirmation/activation mailings. I'm going to resend the confirms...
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Forum: The Library Café
May 21 2021, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 3,652
Views: 733,869
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Forum: Announcements
Apr 24 2021, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,046
Forum email
It seems the forum isn't able to send email at present. I will sic support on it soon, but in the meantime new users needed to be activated, and anyone trying to contact me through the "contact us"...
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 19 2021, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,272
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