[Dragaera] McCaffrey FHYA?

[Mark A. Mandel]

Ah ha! very good. May I add this to the Jokes and Allusions page of Cracks and Shards, with credit of course? Do you want your email address on the acknowledgments page? spambaffled? a website URL?

-- Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards
   http://www.cracksandshards.com
   a Steven Brust fan website


----- Original Message ----
From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
To: Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:51:51 PM
Subject: [Dragaera] McCaffrey FHYA?


In Chapter the Thirtieth of FHYA, we read "the high reaches
of the Dragon Wing were but ill-heated at the best of times."

Is this an allusion to Anne McCaffrey's Pern series?

For anyone who hasn't read it: There's a High Reaches Weyr (a
place where tame dragons live) and the dragons are organized
into wings.  Also, he Pern series must be one of Dragaera's
ancestors as a successful example of the lost-human-colony-
reverted-to-swords-and-lords-and-psionics subgenre.  In
particular, the conversations between Vlad and Loiosh is
highly reminiscent of the italicized telepathic conversations
between humans and their dragons--or fire lizards, the
dragons' shoulder-perching relatives--on Pern.  And you'd
probably enjoy /Dragonflight/ at least.

-- 
Jerry Friedman


    
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