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Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) [2] [3] was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search , 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider , 1969).
Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey were frequent attendees at WeyrFest, offering fans a chance to meet the authors in person. Anne was originally scheduled to attend the 2011 Dragon*Con, but had deferred her appearance until the 2012 event due to heart problems, just a few months before her death in late November of that year.
Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion by Robin Roberts, Greenwood Press (1996) Of Modern Dragons and Other Essays on Genre Fiction by John Lennard, Humanities-Ebooks (2008) Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey by Todd McCaffrey, Open Road Media (2014) The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye, Random House (1997)
Dragonsblood is a science fiction novel by Todd McCaffrey in the Dragonriders of Pern series that his mother Anne McCaffrey initiated in 1967. Published in 2005, this was the first with Todd as sole author and the nineteenth in the series.
Anne McCaffrey had published two stories when she attended her first Milford Writer's Workshop in 1959. Afterward she worked on "The Ship Who Sang", which was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Apr 1961) and included by editor Judith Merril in the anthology, 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (1962).
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