Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!markb From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Anne McCaffrey's female characters Message-ID: <2430@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 12:52:53 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2430 Posted: Fri Nov 1 12:52:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:40:22 EST References: <276@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 16 In article <276@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Lubkin@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes: >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.... In a short conversation with Anne McCaffrey at a book signing she said that "Restoree" started out to be a straight romance novel but the SF elements just kind on snuck in there and took over. Mark Biggar {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,akgua,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!markb