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!arenson From: arenson@louie.udel.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #420 Message-ID: <287@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:28:39 EST Article-I.D.: caip.287 Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:28:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:43:43 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 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)