Beth,
I loved McCaffrey, esp. the Pern series.  `Memoirs of a Geisha' is
WONDERFUL!!  I'm more of a fantasy fan than sci-fi.  Have you read
Sheri S Tepper?  If you like fairy tales you will love `Beauty'.  She
takes a number of different fairy tales, reworks and combines them
into a wonderful novel, she is futuristic with an eco-feminist slant,
but doesn't preach or browbeat.  All her novels are wonderful.  Also,
my absolute favourite fantasy author is Charles De Lint, a marvelous
Candadian author, `The Little Country' is my favourite.  I would crawl
across broken glass to get hold of his books - alright... I am
exaggerating.  But he writes the sort of stuff that change the way you
see the world.

Rayna

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:04PM -0700, Elizabeth H. Thiers wrote:
    Can we all butt in?  Let's see love for scifi writers Vonda, Anne
    MacCaffrey (I want a dragon for Christmas),