toobusytoread:

So the other day I was at my mother-in-law’s house and she said to me, “Hey we found this book while unpacking. I had been using it to prop up trinkets in my curio cabinet. We were just gonna get rid of it and then I thought, ‘Hey! Joey might want this!’”

I took the old (but still in good shape) hardback from her and turned it over to see what it was. 

Yeah, no big deal or anything. Anne McCaffery is just the first female ever to win a Nebula Award and the first female to win a Hugo Award in fiction for novellas that are in The Dragonriders of Pern  and my mother-in-law has been using it to prob up glass gnomes.

That cover annoys me so much, though. Ramoth and Mnementh look way too dinosaurish about the head and neck, and the harnesses look like they have steering wheels attached to them. And there’s something about their legs being tucked up that irritates me, even if it’s not really wrong.