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R.E. Andeen
I was adopted as a baby. My adoptive parents were wonderful, and I turned out okay growing up, but I always wondered about my birth mother. A few years ago, I found her, and she's great.
So much material for a book in there - the detective story of actually tracking down a person after almost 50 years; the experience of the reunion and an ongoing relationship, from both sides; the possibilities of what could have been.
So much material for a book in there - the detective story of actually tracking down a person after almost 50 years; the experience of the reunion and an ongoing relationship, from both sides; the possibilities of what could have been.
R.E. Andeen
The body was what you'd expect from a factory accident: limbs pointing every which way, chest gashed open from shoulder to hip, head missing entirely. Then it moved.
R.E. Andeen
Pern. No question.
Middle Earth is probably the most compelling, fully-realized world I've ever encountered, and Le Guin's Earthsea is on almost the same level. I'd love to visit either, even travel around for a few years, but I don't think either place would ever feel like home. Their stories are too big.
Anne McCaffrey's Pern, on the other hand, is a place where you could settle down and make a life. I'm not presumptuous enough to imagine becoming a dragonrider, even if I were the right age, but I could easily imagine Impressing a fire lizard, a little bronze or even a golden queen, which would be delightful company.
The modern Pern of most of the books (a few look back in Pern's history) is an interesting place because it's at a watershed moment in its history, a bit like Europe emerging from the middle ages. The old rigid hierarchies are bending and falling away, and the potential for the future, with the combination of the technology of the ancients and the abilities of the dragons, seems limitless.
Also, I want to meet the people who inhabit Pern, perhaps more than any other set of characters I've read. Lessa, F'lar, Robinton, Menolly, Jaxom, all of them.
Middle Earth is probably the most compelling, fully-realized world I've ever encountered, and Le Guin's Earthsea is on almost the same level. I'd love to visit either, even travel around for a few years, but I don't think either place would ever feel like home. Their stories are too big.
Anne McCaffrey's Pern, on the other hand, is a place where you could settle down and make a life. I'm not presumptuous enough to imagine becoming a dragonrider, even if I were the right age, but I could easily imagine Impressing a fire lizard, a little bronze or even a golden queen, which would be delightful company.
The modern Pern of most of the books (a few look back in Pern's history) is an interesting place because it's at a watershed moment in its history, a bit like Europe emerging from the middle ages. The old rigid hierarchies are bending and falling away, and the potential for the future, with the combination of the technology of the ancients and the abilities of the dragons, seems limitless.
Also, I want to meet the people who inhabit Pern, perhaps more than any other set of characters I've read. Lessa, F'lar, Robinton, Menolly, Jaxom, all of them.
R.E. Andeen
The Handmaid's Tale, which was incredibly relevant even before the TV show.
Solitaire, by Kelly Eskridge.
Foundation, which I haven't read since I was a teenager.
Octavia Butler's Parables books, which I haven't read yet.
Something by Carrie Fisher, just because.
Solitaire, by Kelly Eskridge.
Foundation, which I haven't read since I was a teenager.
Octavia Butler's Parables books, which I haven't read yet.
Something by Carrie Fisher, just because.
R.E. Andeen
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