It was great to meet you and you dear mum at Dragon*Con.

I heartily enjoyed the readings you did with your mum and alone.

I also enjoyed “To the Stars…,” despite the disruptive audience.

The music panel with Opland/Freeman was also very entertaining. Both you and your mum have great reading and singing voices (I don’t care how much she thinks she has lost, she’s still great).

I love to hear authors read their own works. The emphasis, pronunciation, and emotion are unmatched. I treasure my copies of “Nerilka’s Story” and “All the Weyrs of Pern” read by your mum. I am still trying to get that Caedmon LP of “The White Dragon” she read. I heard it once when libraries had books on vinyl, but such collections have long since worn out or been sold. Ruth’s voice will always be that one in my mind.

One final comment. I had a great time reading through the DragonFlight script with you and the others at Weyrfest (I got to read F’nor). Keep working on that script. If nothing else, it will make for a great panel at conventions to listen to a scene performed by you and convention participants. I’m only sorry we had to stop with Fax still alive.

I’m looking forward to Dragonsblood.

I so wanted to go to Dragoncon to meet you and your mom, but such was not to be. While listening to my newly-purchased Masterharper of Pern CD (love Fighting Thread), I read your replies to letters about a possible Pern movie.

I tend to agree with you that movies would have better production values. The most difficult thing will be getting the dragons right. In Sean connery’s Dragonheart, the dragon looked good, but flew rather clumsily. I guess to me, the Pern dragons will always look like the first cover for Dragonquest, with Canth and F’nor pictured. I have read that that is not your mother’s vision, though, and she is the Creator!

I sam looking forward to your upoming book, although I would have preferred it before Christmas, so i could both give and receive it.