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- From: alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy)
- Subject: Re: So, is it over?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:18:22 GMT
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- In <JSC.92Dec21013551@monolith.mit.edu> jsc@monolith.mit.edu (Jin S Choi) writes:
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- >After much delay, I finally got a hold of ATWOP and read it in one
- >sitting. Sigh. Took me back to the time I was first introduced to pern
- >and finished the first trilogy in two days. Anyway, I was just
- >wondering, is that all? Is it over? Will there be another? I was
- >thinking through most of it that it would be the last book. And the end
- >does seem final, or it could be. But then, there seems a lot the author
- >could do with the story from this point. But would she want to? So, does
- >anyone know? Sorry if this question has been answered before, I'm not a
- >frequent reader of a.f.p.
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- >Anyway, a few thoughts. Dragonriders are always so careful to avoid
- >paradox. Oops, spoiler warning
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- >There. What would have happened if, when Jancis was scribbling her note
- >to Jaxom as the dragons were going crazy on the bridge, she saw him
- >arrive, said, Oh, good, and just threw away her note? Or when Aivas
- >informed Jaxom that there was evidence that two explosions had already
- >occured on the Red Planet, what would have happened if Jaxom just said,
- >cool, that means I won't have to go since it's already been done? Just
- >once, don't you think *some* dragonrider would let curiosity get the
- >better of him and try to shake his own hand, or go visit Admiral Benden?
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- >Another thing, just what pass is it? I only ask because the books detail
- >the Ninth Pass, but some of the MUSHes are set in the Tenth Pass. Do
- >they incorporate all the new Aivas-introduced technology?
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- >Finally, how old is Jaxom? Young enough to expect to be alive in 50
- >years, I expect.
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- If I get my math correct, I think he was born three years before the 9th pass,
- making him 23 or 24 at the end of ATWOP.
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- My somewhat follow up question to all the questions/talk about a new Pern
- book is: WHAT WILL IT BE ABOUT? This is really weird, because I just finished
- ATWOP yesterday, and was thinking about the next Pern book. The biggest
- question left unfinished for me is what are all the dragonriders going to do
- after this pass is over. The other time I'd like to see more about would
- be an immediate (or close to it) sequel of "Dragonsdawn", and how the colonists
- got the hierarchy of weyr, hold, and hall established (especially Benden and
- Telgar), or about the other hero mentioned in the first book (I always
- get "Quest" and "Flight" confused! :-) ) at the same time Moreta is mentioned
- (falsely connected with Benden, I might add).
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- Any other ideas?
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