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From: arenson@louie.udel.EDU
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #420
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:28:39 EST
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From: David Arenson 


>Ann McCaffrey has been accused by Henry Chai (and probably others)
>of "[writing] Harlequin Romance[s] in an SF setting."  I will not
>argue this one way or the other (since I haven't read either of the
>panned books), but I would like to point out that the people who
>avidly read the Darkover books tend to be devotees of the Pern books
>too.  It would be interesting to see McCaffrey together with MZB, K.
>Kurtz, Diane Paxton, and Jaqueline Lichtenburg at the same con (but
>I'm probably not going....).

I believe that next years DARKOVER convention at thanksgiving will
have MZB, K. Kurtz , and Diane Paxton. I don't know about Jaqueline
Lichtenburg. This is not at the upcoming convention ,but the following
one.

david
(arenson@louie.udel.edu)