Lots of questions from Colin

Hi Todd,

I have just finished listenening to an audiobook copy of The Dolphins Of Pern and my ears kept pricking at the phrase “when this Pass is over.”

Do you know yet when you or Gigi will finish your mum’s work on After The Fall Is Over? I’d dearly love to find out how it pans out for the characters we Pern fans have loved and grown up with.

Also, I found mention that Gigi was planning a sequel to Dragondrums. I always well up in the last lines of that book. Any idea when that might be available?

Finally, we are just over 2 years away from the 50th anniversary of the publication of Weyr Search in Analog magazine (October 1967). I managed to track down and purchase a copy, but have not taken it out of its plastic wrap. Do you have any plans for a Pern golden anniversary celebration?

Best wishes,

Colin

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Hi Collin,

I think we’re going to wait on After the Fall until Gigi’s had a chance to write her first Pern novel and take stock of how that works for her.

You know the funny thing about writing your first Pern novel (or your ninth, for that matter) is that there’s absolutely no expectations from the fans, or the publishers… except that the book has to be a #1 New York Times Bestseller and please every single possible Pern fan (old and new). So, no pressure, right?

Gigi’s feeling that pressure and certainly doesn’t want to let people down. So I’ve been asked by her to keep everything under wraps until she and her publisher are ready to talk.

She’ll do fine and hopefuly somewhere in the next year or so, you’ll know all about it.

That’s something the publishers would do and I imagine that Del Rey would rather celebrate the publication of Dragonflight rather than Weyr Search.

Cheers,

Todd