A Goose

I'm re-visiting more of my favorite teenhood reading material with Anne McCaffery's "To Ride Pegasus". I'll do a proper review once I finish all the stories, but so far it's much like I remember it -- a very different voice and take from usual McCaffery fare. A lot more focused on the technicality and social impact of psionics being proven than on the intimacy of individual experience. It was published in the early 1970s and follows "tell, never show" to a T, but that's part of what I like about it. Also makes it dramatically different from the other Talent books that followed.

The re-read was initially inspired by discussing the Dragonriders of Pern books with a friend.

Pern was a series that was super important to me growing up, with Dragonsong being one of the first books I ever read, but I... don't know if I ever want to revisit them. Looking back on my memories of those books as an adult, there's a bunch of stuff that makes me go "hmmmmm..." but also still a lot of fondness and a strong sense of wonder. I don't want to disrupt the nostalgia and the fact that I'm already like "I dunno" makes me feel like I wouldn't approach them with an open spirit. Maybe another time. Maybe after I've finished making my way back through Mercedes Lackey's works.