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[[File:Anne McCaffrey 2005.JPG|thumb|300px|Anne McCaffrey in 2005]]
Anne McCaffrey (1st April 1926 - 21st November 2011) was a prolific sci-fi/fantasy writer of over one hundred novels, short stories and compilations. Best known for the [[Dragonriders of Pern]] series, she also authored several other popular, long-running series. Those include:
* '''"[[The Ship Who...]]..."''' (Five books, including one each in collaboration with Margaret Ball, [[Mercedes Lackey]], Jody Lynn Nye, and [[
* '''Crystal Singer''' (three novels). Set vaguely in [[The Ship Who...]]... universe, though the former series does not mention the latter.
* '''Dinosaur Planet''' (two novels)/'''Planet Pirates''' (three novels, written with Nye and [[Elizabeth Moon]]). Both series are set in the same universe, with some of the same characters, but have different focuses.
* '''[[Tower and The Hive]]''' AKA: ''Talents'' or ''Pegasus'' (eight total)
* '''[[Petaybee]]/Twins of Peytabee''' (six total, co-written with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
* '''Freedom''' (four novels)
* '''[[Acorna Series|Acorna]]/Acorna's Children''' (ten total, with Ball and Scarborough)
* '''The Barque Cats''' (Semi-[[Spin
McCaffrey's best known compilation of short stories is probably ''The Girl Who Heard Dragons''; notable not only for the title story (which was eventually expanded into ''The Renegades of Pern''), but for a 1956 speculative fiction story that predicted surrogate pregnancy more than two decades before the first successful such birth.
McCaffrey became almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding homosexuality as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any homosexual activity, particularly [[Rape and Switch|anal penetration]], will make a man [[Suddenly Sexuality|instantly and irretrievably gay]] (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously [[No Bisexuals|exclusively]] gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a [[Last
Ih her later years, McCaffrey herself wrote mostly collaborations and largely turned over the continuation of the Pern series to her son, Todd. Pern, while originally being a high-fantasy story with some (very loose) science-fiction aspects, has recently undergone a metamorphosis, in which the original Pern colonists' landing site is discovered. While 'modern' Pern society has neither the capability nor the desire to return to the stars, they have embraced the technological aspects of the original 'Landing' settlement, becoming computer-literate fairly quickly and re-discovering much of the technology that was lost centuries before.
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{{Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Awards}}
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