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),