Letter from Ruth
I just posted most of the following on another site and wanted to make sure you and Anne both saw it. I have been a fan since 1978 when I first read Dragonquest and always make sure I have a cassette player in my car so I can listen to the Pern series wherever I might roam. Thank you both for making such a wonderful place for me to visit daily.
Review of Dragonsblood:
I have 95% of the books Anne McCaffrey has written and all are in hard bound. I also have every one of the Pern series I can find unabridged in audio, so I very familiar with each and every “person”. I just finished Todd’s book and I think it does live up to his “Mum’s” works. With the speed that Kitti Ping had to create the dragons it would seem natural that something could have slipped past them. So it does not surprise me that some gene manipulation happened later as the dragons never get sick in the later turns. Nothing is THAT healthy.
The book grabbed me from the beginning and I was saddened by the passing of Sean and Sorka, having known them from Dragondawn and The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall. I congratulate you Todd for taking up the gauntlet and doing such a marvelous job. Now I would like to see a book about the people that have been exiled to the Southern islands (Dragonseye) or to the islands in the Eastern Ring (All The Weyrs of Pern). Seeing that some of the families when also, they have had to prolificate…..?
Hey Ruth,
Thanks for your review!
As for your suggestion about the exiled, that may be something Mum wants to pursue, or maybe my sister, Gigi (the same Georgeanne Kennedy to whom I dedicated Dragonsblood). I’ve got enough ideas for Third Pass to keep me busy for a number of years to come, and then when I’m done with that, I’ve got some really interesting ideas about the whole Nathi Wars.
Cheers,
Todd