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Anne McCaffrey

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Image:Anne McCaffrey 2005.JPG|thumb|200px|At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005
Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy. She received her B.A. in Slavonic Languages and Literature at Radcliffe College in 1947. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd McCaffrey|Todd, born in 1956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland.

In 1968 McCaffrey's short story "Weyr Search", the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo Award for Best Novella. It was the first time a woman had won a Hugo for fiction.

At the 2005 Nebula Award ceremonies, Ms McCaffrey will be named the 22nd Damon_Knight_Memorial_Grand_Master_Award|Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America organization.

She currently lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Books



Chronicles of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern)

  • Dragonflight (1968) (the first section is derived from "Weyr Search")

  • Dragonquest (1970)

  • Dragonsong (1976)

  • Dragonsinger (1977)

  • The White Dragon (1978)

  • Dragondrums (1979)

  • Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983)

  • Nerilka's Story (1986)

  • Dragonsdawn (1988)

  • Renegades of Pern (1989)

  • All the Weyrs of Pern (1991)

  • The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993)

  • :This is a collection of short stories:

  • *The Survey: P.E.R.N.

  • *The Dolphins' Bell

  • *The Ford of Red Hanrahan

  • *The Second Weyr

  • *Rescue Run (originally appeared in Astounding (magazine)|Analog)

  • The Dolphins of Pern (1994)

  • The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994)

  • Red Star Rising (Hardback) and Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern (Paperback) (1996) (called Dragon's Eye for US release)

  • Masterharper of Pern (1998)

  • The Skies of Pern (2001)

  • A Gift of Dragons (2002)

  • :This is a collection of four short stories:

  • *The Smallest Dragonboy (1973)

  • *The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994)

  • *The Runner of Pern (1999)

  • *Ever the Twain (2002)

  • Dragon's Kin (2003) (with her son Todd McCaffrey)

  • Dragon's Blood (2005) (Written by Todd McCaffrey)


The Ship Series
  • The Ship Who Sang (1969) (short story collection with stories from 1961, 1966, and 1969)

  • PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball

  • The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey

  • The City Who Fought (1993) with S.M. Stirling

  • The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye

  • Brain Ships (2003) (includes The Ship Who Searched and Partnership)

  • The Ship who Saved the Worlds (2003) (includes The Ship who Won and The Ship Errant)

  • The City and the Ship (2004) (includes The City who Fought and The Ship Avenged)


  • This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye

  • *The Ship Errant (1996) by Jody Lynn Nye

  • *The Ship Avenged (1997) by S.M. Stirling


The Talents universe

The Pegasus Series
  • To Ride Pegasus (1973) (short stories)

  • Pegasus in Flight (1990)

  • Pegasus in Space (2000)


The Tower and Hive Series
  • The Rowan (1990) (partly based on the short "Lady in the Tower")

  • Damia (Novel)|Damia (1991) (partly based on the short "A Meeting of Minds")

  • Damia's Children (1993)

  • Lyon's Pride (1994)

  • The Tower and the Hive (1999)


Coelura & Nimisha & Crystal universe
  • The Coelura (1983)

  • Nimisha's Ship (1998)

The Crystal Singer Series
  • Crystal Singer (1982)

  • Killashandra (1986)

  • Crystal Line (1992)

(Several "Crystal Singer" short stories also appear in the anthologies Continuum 2 and Continuum 4, both edited by Roger Elwood.)

The Dinosaur Planet and Planet Pirate Series
  • Dinosaur Planet (1978)

  • Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984)

  • Sassinak (1990) with Elizabeth Moon

  • The Death of Sleep (1990) with Jody Lynn Nye

  • Generation Warriors (1991) with Elizabeth Moon

  • The Planet Pirates published as an omnibus trade paperback edition of Sassinak, The Death of Sleep and Generation Warriors (with Elizabeth Moon and Jody Lynn Nye)

  • Mystery of Ireta published as an onmibus edition of Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors (2003)


The Doona Series
  • Decision at Doona (1969)

  • Crisis on Doona (1992) with Jody Lynn Nye

  • Treaty at Doona (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye

  • Doona an omnibus edition of the trilogy


The Petaybee Series (Powers series)
  • Powers That Be (1993) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Power Lines (1994) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Power Play (1995) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough


The Catteni Series (Freedom series)
  • Freedom's Landing (1995) (based on the 1970 short story The Thorns of Barevi which appears in the 1977 collection Get Off the Unicorn)

  • Freedom's Choice (1996)

  • Freedom's Challenge (1998)

  • Freedom's Ransom (2002)


The Acorna Series
  • Acorna the Unicorn Girl (1997) with Margaret Ball

  • Acorna's Quest (1998) with Margaret Ball

  • Acorna's People (1999) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Acorna's World (2000) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Acorna's Search (2001) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Acorna's Rebels (2003) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • Acorna's Triumph (2004) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough


Acorna's Children Series
  • First Warning (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough


Twins of Petaybee Series
  • Changelings (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough


Romances
  • The Mark of Merlin (1971)

  • Ring of Fear (1971)

  • The Kilternan Legacy (1975)

  • Stitch in Snow (1985)

  • The Year of the Lucy (1986)

  • The Lady (1987)


Other
  • Restoree (1967)

  • Get off the Unicorn (1987) (collection of short stories)

  • Black Horses for the King (1996)

  • An Exchange of Gifts (1996)

  • No One Noticed the Cat (1996)

  • Space Opera (1996) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • If Wishes were Horses (1998)
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References


  • Roberts, Robin. Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
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External links


  • http://www.annemccaffrey.info Anne McCaffrey Official Site

  • http://scifan.com/writers/mm/McCaffreyAnne.asp Bibliography at SciFan

  • http://www.ibdof.com/IBDOF-author-booklist.php?author=9 Bibliography at The Internet Book Database of Fiction

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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anne McCaffrey".


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