RIP Anne McCaffery

[WhiteTiger]

I was quite saddened to hear this news. I have read just about every sci-fi and fantasy book this lady has written, multiple times. Thank you, Anne, for your gifts to literature.

McCaffrey helped pave the way for women writers in fantasy and science fiction, and was both the first woman awarded a Hugo Award and the first awarded a Nebula Award. Even in her 80s she continued to write, and over her lifetime produced a prodigious number of books and short stories. She was still answering readers’ mail on her website as of a few weeks ago. Her influence on other writers, both male and female, and of both fantasy and science fiction, can scarcely be measured.

[SoulOfTheFlame]

Great writer. RIP.

[driveway]

That's sad. I spent pretty much the entirety of Junior and Senior high reading the Pern novels and the FT&T series.

[annasuave]

*Throws back head and keens in the general direction of the red star in tribute.*

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