The Catteni Sequence

[Guardian]

I liked this series...anyone out there think the same? Please give me your views...thanks!

[Cheryl]

It's among my favorites. It seemed nice and different from her other series when it was new, with a more traditional sci-fi flavor. I remember being pleasantly surprised and impressed when it first came out by the fact that she'd finally gone back to the short "Thorns of Barevi" and developed it into a novel as she had said she planned to in the notes on that story in Get Off the Unicorn.

[vita]

I recently read all of Anne's Catteni books, but it's been decades since I read Get Off the Unicorn. *snagging my copy and paging to Thorns of Barevi* Thanks!

And, yes, I enjoyed the series very much.

[manephelien]

I really like it because it's contemporary, or at least it was when it was written. Some references to 286 computers in the first book make me chuckle, though.

[bowerbird]

I am glad someone else likes the Catteni sequence although I found the fourth book to be a bit disappointing

[manephelien]

I know. It left so many questions hanging. Still, there are some fun things about it too, especially when you recognize names of minor characters as posters in Anne McCaffrey's now-defunct official bboard.

Welcome to Chronicles, bowerbird!

[bowerbird]

Originally Posted by manephelien

I know. It left so many questions hanging. Still, there are some fun things about it too, especially when you recognize names of minor characters as posters in Anne McCaffrey's now-defunct official bboard.

Welcome to Chronicles, bowerbird!

Thank-you for your welcome!!

I got really thinking after reading the last book and have started writing my own sequel!! Only got about 12,000 words so far and it is slow, slow as I have about three plots intertwining.

Just my luck to start a project like this after the folding of Mccaffery's board!

[Talysia]

I haven't read this, but I think I'll look for a copy of the books. Can't call myself a fan without reading everything, after all...

[sassy1]

I loved the Catteni Sequence... they were the first books of Anne's that I read - and I now have 20 of her books - including some of the Pern series, Acorna series, the Twins of Petaybe, and of course the catteni books

I think one of the main reasons I loved them is because I like the idea of living without all of todays technology - I often wonder how it must have been before phones and computers and cars and everything, and this book looks at that. Needless to say I preferred the 1st book when they started right from scratch, to the last ones when they started getting technologies and everything back again - but I still think all of the books are really good

...does anybody know if/when a fifth book in the catteni sequence is coming out?

[manephelien]

She's not currently writing or planning to write any more Freedom books. Sadly, because I'd love to see the Farmer home planet. Freedom's Ransom left far too many questions unanswered.