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Locus Magazine, November 2004, Issue 526 Volume 53 Number 5. Featuring interviews with 'Anne McCaffrey' (actually an interview with McCaffrey and her son Todd, but edited to be attributed only to her) and Michael Bishop, and a recap of Noreascon 4.

You can read the McCaffrey interview portion here: link (goes to a Google Drive hosted PDF, to read a plain text file go here: link)

senmutthebuilder

It exists! The new community was made before it hit her birthday in my timezone!

Please, come look at the introductory post and see if you want to join this celebration of all of Anne McCaffrey's worlds!

auntieoneandauntietwo

Dragonseye has an entertaining number of women. McCaffery, you could have been doing this all the time!

solrika

For Day 3 of the Kalluzeb AU Week: Crossover, here's a Pern AU. You can read the associated fic here.

A little background for those who didn't grow up with the Dragons of Pern books: Dragons are sentient and bond with their chosen rider at birth. Queens/golds (the biggest) and greens (smallest) are female. In order of small-to-big, blues, browns, and bronzes are male. Their riders live in communities called weyrs. (For those wanting to read the books, a caution: Noncon is unfortunately baked into canon: if you have a female dragon, you're have to bottom for the rider whose dragon catches yours during a mating flight. I don't treat it as a rule but it's in the books.)

The drawings:

• Kallus on his dragon, Nemesis. Dragons name themselves at birth, but there seems to be a cultural component to what they choose. I figure Imperial dragons would go for flashy, imposing names.
• Zeb and his dragon, Lireth, flying against Nemesis. In canon, dragons fighting dragons is unheard of--but in the AU, I think it's actually pretty common as Imperial and Rebel forces clash.
• After joining the Rebels, Kallus is settling in (mostly) nicely until Nemesis 'rises' to mate. Turns out there are different expectations of how a mating flight is handled in a Rebel weyr than an Imperial one...

More thoughts on this AU below the cut:

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hxans

I told my husband last night I was going to read in bed for a bit before going to sleep. I don't always read before bed, but I am often in bed before him and frequently already asleep when he comes in to read before he goes to sleep.

When he came to bed, I was still reading, which he was surprised by. And I told him, yeah, I got to the part where the weyrleaders duel, and I just had to finish the chapter. We both agreed that no matter how many times we have read the series, there are certain scenes that are just so compelling even to this day.

tith

the problem with being a fantasy/scifi nerd in the extreme is wanting to reference random fantasy novels from 1979 im everyday conversation but knowing no one will understand a damn thing

pernaderp

Meraki's Tenth Clutching

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Header art credit to Bex! Charts to Mistywren (Zemi and Ettie) and Bayfire (Azzie)

Three flights for three clutches on Meraki's volcanic black sands, the tenth dragon hatching cycle has begun for an average of two hatchings per year for the past five years! This cycle features the maiden flights of two (more!) Deimos Class dragons alongside Meraki's oldest clutcher, Green Azaneth.

Remember how Deimos was lousy with uteruses? These mark the third and fourth of Deimos' fifteen dragons to lay clutches on Meraki's sands, with at last two more slated to join them someday.

Each Flight was over twenty individual Chasers, with the flights being run according to the clutching dragon player's preferences; Seirye's Gold Zemirath was two rounds of posts and as many entries as you preferred, every color welcome (though she later realized Zemirath wouldn't choose a Bronze,) with the player choosing based on who she believed impressed Zemirath the most. Boop's Garnet Etiath was one round, one week, metallic males only, winner based on Vibes alone. BumbleBoarBee's Green Azaneth was weighted RNG, with points awarded for various qualities both OOC and IC, roundless, fourteen days allotted to post.

Zemirath chose Black Eoth, Wingleader of Zenith Wing, played by Pan, because his arrogance and self-certainty, his ferocity and his confidence, impressed her! Etiath chose Garnet* Rielth, played by Merry, because he was a gentleman and the post made Boop laugh! Azaneth chose Bronze Ekinth, a site-hatched dragon from the Titania Clutch played by Bayfire, via wheel-spin for his temerity as the largest dragon in the Flight, his cleverness in responding to an IC attack by another dragon, and her desire to 'step on him'!

Art credit to Boop, Mistywren, and Dyne (me!)

Mothers were varying hugenesses of Eggnant, and fathers, various shades of smug, contrite, and dignified.

Art credit to Merry

But after all the hardships, the thousands of words posted about dragons in flight and in flirtation, the anticipation of a hatch cycle to come --

Art credit to Mistywren

FIFTEEN EGGIES! Clutch themes are Sharks (Zemirath), Betta Fish (Etiath), Bird Eggs (Azaneth)

Template by Raum, colors/alterations/eggs by Mistywren

Misty, as usual, absolutely slaughtered the clutch art; the anomalies on Azaneth, the scars on Eoth, the billions of freckles on Etiath's ass - tres bien!

And here's all the eggs in their vivid egg-y glory!!

Coming up next: the touching, which on Meraki has two parts. The actual Touching involves what is essentially a prompt of impressions one gets from each egg, and then Meraki has a part two where Candidates have an overnight in the Stands, and many will share a dream with one of the dragons still in the eggs. These are written by Staff and contain clues as to what is in the eggs, who might be Impressing them, and what the dragon is actually like.

We'll look forward to a great deal more creativity from members and staff alike as we approach this eventful Tenth hatching!

If you're interested in roleplay based on the Dragonriders of Pern, come check us out on our roleplay forum or hang out in our Discord server!

senmutthebuilder

So tomorrow would have been Anne McCaffrey's 99th birthday. I had, last year, come up with the idea of generating a community solely for the works of Anne McCaffrey. Love or hate her, she had an interesting impact on the face of Science Fiction, and was groundbreaking as a woman writer.

The reason for the idea? A year long celebration leading up to the 100th birthday, much as we Heinlein fans had activities planned for his 100th. It seems a good way to honor the amount of imagination Anne McCaffrey threw at her worlds.

(more at post)