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For McCaffrey Quest 2007, to be held in October, our topic will be:
Early Pern and Tower & the Hive The specific books to be covered are: Dragonsdawn Chronicles of Pern Dragonseye/Red Star Rising The Rowan Damia Damia's Children Lyon's Pride The Tower and the Hive You have 8 books to read and 5 months to prepare! Good luck to all!
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yay! I have these - except rsr- which is odd since its one of my favourites!
Just TatH or the shorts too? Oh and what about the edition differences in Dragonsdawn? |
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Just to reaffirm that all said books have to be read and whanot? I'm certainly glad I have Ebay now, so I can get the ones I don't have...3 of them...-Chuckles-
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Yes, there are many differences between the US and US editions of Dragonsdawn... *evil chuckle*
![]() But, we'll not capitalize too much on them - and probably only if you can find the relevant data online ![]() ![]() Edith: No, I don't think this contest will include the, sometimes different, short stories that later became parts of the Tower and the Hive-Talent series. The Chronicles of Pern is an anthology but I don't think we'll insist on you all reading the seperate editions of The Dolphins Bell and Rescue Run too. More detailed news will follow! STAY TUNED
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Yay! Early Pern!
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Yay! I have all of these, and I can't wait to reread them all!
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OH WHOOOOOOOPEEEEEEE....
![]() goes off muttering to herself to hit the books and study, study, study...I really love having the "Mccaffrey Quest Banner"....just adds a touch of extra special above my avatar!!! Now to make sure I score high enough to get one of those lovely prizes this year...OH YES!!! ![]()
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I know I'm not looking in the right spot... what is the McCaffrey Quest exactly, please?
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Go here Gwina, all will be explained if you read the info in the site!
The Quest is a joined effort by staff of this board, A Meeting of Minds, and the websites The Pern Museum & Arcgives, Sariel's Guide to Pern and The Many Worlds of Anne McCaffrey. The quest is tough; certainly not an easy contest despite the fact that most of the questions are mutiple choice. Prizes are usually wonderful but fame and confirmation of knowledge is what the contestants are really after ![]()
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To add a bit more to what Hans said, McCaffrey Quest (MQ) is an trivia challenge that we hold annually. It is long and difficult unless you really know your books, but much fun too, and with great prizes available to the top winners.
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I think I mentioned it once before... but if you want a hand coming up with early pern questions, I'm happy to help.
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Considering all the things that happened at the time of the last quest I wonder if I should dare risk it. Prolly will. It was really fun and maybe this time I'll be able to apply myself to it without so much RL interference.
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Sounds like a great challenge! Thanks for the info. So, I gather it's taken at the same time, by computer? Does that mean we're on the honor system? Just checking.
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It can be taken any time over a matter of 3-4 days.
Honor system, in what way? You're allowed to use your books and online sources to check for answers. And even ask friends for help, though presumably most friends that would know enough to help would want to compete on their own!
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Cool!!! I am ready for my second try. This time I know how it works a little better. Maybe I can even get a good score.
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hmm...now to head to the public library to track down the non-pern books and the only pern book i don't own...dragonseye...
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AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
my library doesn't carry any of these books!!! ![]() i shall go and request them...hopefully. i have great librarians! |
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Interlibrary loan is your friend!
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Thais, Try your local used book store...most that I have been in generally have several paperback copies...ranging mostly from .25 to .50 cents. Nautrally they are well used copies...but they will be yours to use for the MQ, and for reading again for pleasure afterwords.
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YEEAAHHHH!!!!
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Ahhhh, yes, I get it now!
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Thanx Maelin and Cheryl for the tips!
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Excellent news!!!
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Thank you for posting the topics and giving us lots of time to prepare!
Last year I found out about it a week before, this is much better ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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hah, just when i thought i needed to brush up on early pern. yay more reading. in this challenge it pays to be a bibliophile/bibliomaniac.
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Ain't that funny? I just finished reading TTATH yesterday! :p Of course, I'll do another re-read before the quest. I suspect that my Towerdex
will get more hits than usual (it covers the Tower books and some of the Pegasus series) once we get the questions. ![]()
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I think that' s a safe guess, Granath
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OOOO Granath, I had not gone there before....WOW your Towerdex is very impressive. It reminded me of some names that I had forgoten. It has been way to long since I have read all of my Talent series...MQ or no MQ I need to do that very soon... I love that series very much!!!
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I've almost finished 'The Rowan'. -Grins at Edith-
I need Damia and Lyon's pride now. I'll try to get 'em cheap off Ebay or something...I only need reading editinos for this. |
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No problem. I haven't updated it for ages and have been meaning to do PiF and PiS as well. Luckily they aren't needed for this quest.
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Kind of interesting, I just finished rereading the Pegasus trilogy and started on the Tower and the Hive again 2 days ago and didnt even know that the topics had been put up been too busy with school to remember which forums I visit. Looking forward to my second attempts at MQ
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Just so I can be good and prepared, since I am new to this, what are the differences referenced about Dragonsdawn, and the TaTH shorts?
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Heh.
I started to go through my two editions of Dragonsdawn with a fine-toothed comb earlier this year, trying to pull out every single difference. I'm still planning on going back to it one day to catalogue the major variations (cataloging everything properly would have me quoting so much of the text I'd be worried about breaching fair-use clauses), but on a minor level, I hope this illustrates the problem: These are all passages taken from the first chapter... #1 Quote:
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Kath? We did tell you this (comparison between US and UK editions of Dragonsdawn) has been done already, right?
There's absolutely no probem with someone doing a second check (plus I think Anneli didn't do the complete book) but I thought you should know.
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There's a VAST number of differences between especially the US and UK edtiions of Dragonsdawn. In the UK addition for instance there are mentioned about 40 (!) characters more by name apart from the many textual differences.
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Are these differences cataloged somewhere?
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Yes, but not public (yet) although the characters are all in my Pern Encyclopedia (which has a google search).
We haven't really discussed this but, because of the many other differebces) I suppose it would be unfair to take UK edition of Dragonsdawn as reference/source for the McCaffreyQuest questions.
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