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Dolphins Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey check out website: www.booksattransworld.co.uk
Into this mix is Readis, a fisherboy who develops, past his mother's hate of what he sees as his duty, into Pern's first Dolphineer. McCaffrey seems to favour the basic plot of a lead character finding his goal in life. Others, like Menolly and Jaxom, are also featured although unlike Dragonsong / Dragonsinger and White Dragon, we don't see life solely through Readis' eyes or indeed, T'lion, a bronze dragonrider's and friend, eyes. A lot of time is also spent in showing something of the lives of many characters that you should already be familiar with from reading the other Pern books. Although some elements of this story could be considered predictable, what McCaffrey brings to this book is the knowledge and application of how useful dolphins are on Pern and maybe should be considered on our current day Earth. Seeing the dolphins being used as something akin to a CAT scan to locate tumours in humans easily springs to mind. I probably wouldn't recommend this book to people who haven't had some familiarity with the Pern series, though McCaffrey's storytelling would probably still draw you in and curse for not reading the other books first. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - February 2004
BOOKS The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold The Separation by Christopher Priest First Meetings In The Enderverse by Orson Scott Card Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans The Dolphins Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Reach For Tomorrow by Arthur C Clarke The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF # 16 edited by Gardner Dozois 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss Trading In Danger by Elizabeth Moon Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Vol. 1 edited by Stanley Wiater The Gates To Witchworld by Andre Norton Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil by Robert Simpson The Killing Of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld Star Trek: The Original Series: Gemini by Mike W. Barr MUSIC COMPUTER GAMES Wallace and Gromit - Project Zoo RPGs & WARGAMES MAGAZINES On Spec: The Canadian Magazine
Of The Fantastic vol 15 no. 2 & 3
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This book is a slight tangent to events that
took place in All The Wyrs Of Pern as well as progress things
a little regarding the discovery and use of information from the
settlers original artificial intelligence computer system Avias
and the rediscovery that the shipfish are actually dolphins who,
because of mentasynth, could speak English and were willing helpers
to the humans who brought them to Pern. 
As
they lived mostly in the seas of the Southern Continent and could
eat thread, the dolphins had stayed when the humans fled to the
Northern Continent to escape the menace.
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