Lubkin@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (10/29/85)
From: "Lubkin David"@LLL-MFE.ARPA 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.... -- Lubkin
markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) (11/01/85)
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