Oct. 6th, 2015 09:47 pm
[personal profile] snarp
manyslinkingfrights replied to your post: Anne McCaffrey’s biggest failure was actually that…

wait was that shit in… The White Dragon? Something with the found spacecraft had the White Dragon’s dragon in it. The only other part I remember is that in The White Dragon there’s a line about plowed fields & sun on some choice buttock (I was 11)
It was in All The Weyrs Of Pern, I think? I can’t remember which book, the later ones are a mess and all blend together and McCaffrey cannot remember a single fucking thing from the earlier books.

But yes, Ruth goes to the spaceship, but the most important thing in there is the AI named AIVAS who teaches Menolly and the other kids how to code for some reason.

There was no sane explanation for this, just, the magic fucking AI wants Menolly to learn fucking COBOL. Filthy liberal arts institution that is Harper Hall has failed her.

#gotta prepare menolly for the modern job market

Date: 2015-10-07 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
I think it was in the last book that sort of made sense.

I am impressed that their spaceships even found the place.

Date: 2015-10-07 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] petronia
I swear to G I read all the books with Menolly in them but I do not remember this, like, AT ALL.

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