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Joanna Weaver
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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: Rest In Peace, Anne McCaffrey |
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One of the first fantasy novels I ever read, Dragonsong, introduced me to the land of Pern that she created. While I have not read the entire series, that book alone enlarged the scope of my then-young imagination.
Rather than write my own summary of this woman's contribution to fantasy literature, I will simply copy and paste a more devout fan's touching post, I feel it deserves to be shared. I will post a link to the source at the bottom. Also, I will paste the CBS News article and link to it as well.
Thank you for sharing your worlds with us, Anne McCaffrey.
From the DAZ Forum, Ryuu@AMcCF shared:
| Quote: | I just heard about her passing this morning. Given the neccessary CGI that'll be needed for the dragons and environment of Pern, it's quite appropriate to mention her life's work here.
Her Pern series is in the work for being imaged for a movie by Copperheart Entertainment. After all the years it's taken to get this far, it's so unfair that she won't be able to see it.
She was such a warm, sweet, imaginative, wonderful lady. I only got to meet her once at DarkoverCon, a convention set up in honor of one of Anne's close friends, Marion Zimmer Braddley (saddly, who also passed away several years ago).
She was born on April 1st, 1926.
Her first book was Restoree, published in 1967, as a protest against how women were protrayed in SciFi. She went on to write dozens of books, many in the Romance genre, but several titles were in SciFi. Her most famous work for which she's known started out as a short story that was published in Azimov's Analog, called "Weyr Search" also in 1967.
The story chronicled the revenge/rescue of the young Lessa, the last survivor of a murderous attack on her family by a neighboring Lord Holder, by which Lessa managed to manipulate a dragonrider to kill Lord Fax, only to end up becoming a dragonrider herself. That short was later incorporated into Dragonflight, the first of what would become known as the Pern Trilogy. The series later grew into six books with the publication of the HarperHall trilogy.
As a result of her Pern series, people like Azimov, Heinlein, Clarke and others of the whimsically labled "First Generation of SciFi" authors, began to correspond with Anne. She developed a long friendship with Azimov that lasted to his own death.
For a long time, the series stayed as it was while Anne wrote dozens of other shorts, novels and series. Then, in 1983, she revisited Pern with Moreta, then Dragonsdawn in 1988, and for many years after, there'd be a new one pop out of her head, covering another period of the Pernese colony. After All The Weyrs of Pern in 2001, she mostly retired but kept her hand in the series as one of her sons, Todd, took over chronicling Pern--the last 10yrs has seen no less than 7 books in the Pern series.
a more complete bio can be found on her site: Pernhome
On his own website, Todd said that she had suffered a stroke back in 2001, so they knew that she could go at any time and they were grateful for the ‘golden’ time they got to spend with her these last 10yrs.
Todd said that they're also grateful that the stroke that killed her was a big one, so she didn't have time to suffer.
As I said, she was such a wonderful lady, and she'll be greatly missed by me and all her fans. |
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=177785
From CBS:
| Quote: | 'Dragonriders' author Anne McCaffrey dies aged 85'
(AP) DUBLIN — Anne McCaffrey, whose vision of an interstellar alliance between humans and dragons spawned two dozen "Dragonriders of Pern" novels, has died in Ireland aged 85, her publisher and family announced Wednesday.
Random House said the Cambridge, Massachusetts-born author died of a stroke Monday at her rural residence south of Dublin, her home for four decades. She christened her self-designed house Dragonhold.
"Surrounded by the reassuring presence of family and close friends, her passing was swift and without suffering," her three children said in a statement.
McCaffrey turned to the male-dominated world of sci-fi writing after dabbling in singing and amateur acting.
"I have always used emotion as a writing tool," McCaffrey told the science fiction magazine Locus in a 2004 interview. "That goes back to me being on the stage. The thing is, emotion — if it's visibly felt by the writer — will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
She was the first woman to win the top two prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and the Nebula, in 1968 and 1969 respectively following publication of her first two novellas set on the fictional planet of Pern.
McCaffrey moved to Ireland in 1970 after filing for divorce from her husband of 20 years. She had ancestral ties to Ireland, which also had just launched a unique program to woo novelists to live there exempt from income tax.
Her popularity surged with the 1978 publication of "The White Dragon," which completed her original trilogy begun in the late 1960s. It was her only novel to break into The New York Times best-seller list.
But she maintained a prolific writing pace, producing a further 21 novels set in Pern at various periods of its imagined history.
Over the past decade as her health faded, she increasingly collaborated with her son Todd, who co-authored five Pern-based novels and wrote three others on his own. The 23rd novel, 'Dragon's Time," was published in June with mother and son sharing the writing credit, while the 24th, "Sky Dragons," is set for publication next year.
She is survived by two sons and a daughter. Funeral arrangements were not announced. |
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502927_162-57330728/dragonriders-author-anne-mccaffrey-dies-aged-85/
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wow I have read at least one book of every series. I will miss her greatly. I have visited her site often to see when the next book would be out and how things are. I got hooked on the Petaybee series. I loved that one almost as much as the Pern series. An amazing writer.
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The Rowan series... Is my all time favorite from her.. That and the Unicorn Girl. She was an intricate part of my Fathers library and she will be sorely missed. People who can translate their imagination to paper in the manner she did are few and far between. |
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