Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!Lubkin From: Lubkin@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Anne McCaffrey's female characters Message-ID: <276@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 12:52:53 EST Article-I.D.: caip.276 Posted: Tue Oct 29 12:52:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 01:17:49 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 13 From: "Lubkin David"@LLL-MFE.ARPA Poor Anne ... To L S Chabot: look at the copyrights on Dragonquest and Restoree. They're only a few years apart. The strength of Lessa should have been a clue that something was amiss with Restoree. She wrote Restoree with tongue in cheek, as a parody of that kind of book. To her continuing chagrin, first the editors at Ballantine and now legions of readers take the book as a straight adventure story. The cover blurbs are largely responsible I think. And now you're accusing her of the very attitudes she was lambasting in the book.... -- Lubkin