RIP Anne McCaffrey

[BrotherBenny]

Still waiting on confirmation but it seems that the First Lady of Pern is gone

 

[Sindatur]

I dropped off groceries and my Doctor Who recordings of Peter Davison through Sylvester McCoy to my mom this weekend, and she was just about done with a McCaffrey book. This will crush my mom if it's true, she's got lots of her books and adores the Pern Universe.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

She's not dead, she's just gone "between".



Of everything she wrote, I loved her PERN stories BEST!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Oh, no. This is very sad if true, and I don't really doubt it. I only started reading her books a couple of years ago, and in fact I'm reading First Fall right now. She created an amazing, unique universe. I have a friend who will take this as badly as I took the death of ACC.

RIP, Dragonlady.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Confirmation.

RIP Anne McCaffrey

 

[Hound of UIster]

Didn't realize she was that old.

 

[Davros]

A true fantasy fiction icon, she will long be remembered.

 

[Unicron]

I never really read any of her books, but I was definitely aware of the name. RIP.

 

[Brolan]

Read some of the Dragonrider's books. Not exactly my cup of tea, but the lady told a great story. RIP.

 

[zakkrusz]

This sucks, I enjoyed her books and the universe she created. Her books actually got me to start reading novels regularly, if I recall correctly, with the Dinosaur Planet dualogy and the Dragonriders of Pern series when I was in middle school.

 

[MANT!]

My first wife read her work like a madwoman..each book she got was always a first edition..

In pace requiescat Anne McCaffrey

 

[Klaus]

Loved the original trilogy and the Harper Hall books back when they were new... RIP.

 

[Jan]

I got many hours of enjoyment from Anne McCaffrey's books, from Pern to the Ship Who series and the Tower and Hive series. Not all of her stuff was to my taste but she never failed to entertain.

She'll be missed.

Jan

 

[23skidoo]

I never got into her Pern books but I greatly enjoyed her Killashandra Crystal Singer trilogy (which I hope they do a half-decent movie of someday). RIP.

Alex

 

[Nerys Myk]

I avoided her Pern books like the plague for the longest time. Thought they were fantasy and I was never too keen on fantasy. Around 1989, my then girlfriend made me read Dragonsdawn and I was hooked.

RIP

 

[Australis]

Her books were an important part of my teenage years. A long life, but perhaps a little longer would have been nice.

 

[superdeluxe]

Wow, She will be missed.

 

[Admiral2]

I only read one of her books, The Ship Who Searched. Okay, but not my favorite.


Still, its hard to lose any iconic author. RIP, Anne.

 

[js]

RIP Dragonlady.

 

[Sakrysta]

I don't really have the words to express the influence Anne's books - and Pern in particular - have had on me. I've been reading her books since high school. At least once a year I get homesick either for Pern or FT&T. Only one other author's death - Madeleine L'Engle - has affected me so deeply.

*sigh*