Sad to hear. Massive stroke, gone the next day. She was an active woman physically and mentally, and a kind woman who loved her readers and her friends and most all of the world around her. To those who never met her, you’d have liked her. If you like at least something of horses and poetry, tall tales, the future, the past, heroes, and the green earth, you’d and she’d have found something in common and you could have talked for hours.
Anne McCaffrey has left us….
by CJ | Nov 22, 2011 | Journal | 27 comments
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The SF/F community lost a great member, but she left us a brilliant legacy.
Fans can get many of her novels as ebooks. I found the pair, Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, in a single-volume ebook as The Mystery of Ireta. The description shows the two books there.
I didn’t find The Ship Who… series in ebook format, however.
Um, and I’m saving a bit towards Christmas and my birthday in March, in case Closed Circle has new titles then. 🙂
She was one of my early reads also – I think I read all the dragon books as they came out ( stopped reading the new ones about 20 years ago though). My favorites were the Dragonsinger trilogy. Probably YA but I always find it so SATISFYING to reread those three short books. The sense of coming home and coming into oneself is most comforting. Even at my very advanced age.
“Say not in grief that she is gone, but in thankfulness that she was” – Hebrew prayer.
Oh no! 🙁
I always loved her dragon books, and wanted to see them brought to the screen. We have the tech now to do wonderful dragons. I had the good fortune to meet Ms. McCaffrey at a con, and she was very sweet and gracious. She will be missed.
She has long been one of my favorite authors! 🙁
I have my first copy of ‘Dragonflight'(from 1980). I’m so sad she’s gone, but what a legacy. A writer whose books completely take over when I’m reading them, and she created characters with such a rich emotional life, as well as an unforgettable context in the dragons of Pern. RIP.