Anne McCaffrey was one of the world’s leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards’ Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series.
Praise for Anne McCaffrey and her Dragonriders of Pern series
“I encountered Dragonflight at the age of eleven and was
immediately charmed. Since then, I’ve read many, many more of
Anne McCaffrey’s books, and the feeling of Real Magic has never
gone away.”—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling
author
“Anne McCaffrey’s Pern books forever changed how readers looked at
dragons—not just fearsome beasts to be slain, but bonded warrior
partners. She taught a very young me that there was nothing cooler
than a dragon you could ride, a dragon that could read your
thoughts, that the mastery of a dragon was, basically, the best
thing that could happen to you. Combine that with the wonderful
world-building of Pern and her unforgettable characters and you get
books that shaped a generation and more of fantasy writers. She was
a true original.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling
author
“Anne McCaffrey is one of the titans of this genre, and one of my
favorite authors of all time. If you’re reading this, these
books are worth your time. Full stop.”—Brandon Sanderson, #1
New York Times bestselling author
“Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series was the formative
series for me growing up. My best friend and I would spend hours
each day pretending we lived in Pern. The world building opened my
eyes to what fantasy could be; the characters introduced me to
women in roles of power; and the romances left my young heart
aflutter. No series has ever captured my imagination so completely
as Pern did.”—Susan Dennard, New York Times bestselling author of
the Witchlands Series
“I grew up reading the Dragonriders of Pern, and they sparked a
lifelong love of dragons and dragonriders. Many times as a kid, I
would imagine myself on the back of Ramoth, Mnementh, and
especially Ruth, soaring through the skies, fighting Thread, and
saving the world. Nowadays, the characters are different, as my own
dragon stories have been written and published, but echoes of Pern
can be found in every one of them.”—Julie Kagawa, New York Times
bestselling author of The Iron Fey
“Pern was the birthplace of fantasy in the hearts of so many
readers of my generation, and was the first (and only) fandom I was
able to fully share with my mother. I dreamt of Harper Hall
and fire lizards of my own all the way up to high school.
These books were trailblazers, and the land they charted remains as
gripping and innovative today as it was upon its discovery.
We owe a lot to Pern.”—Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling
author
“Pern is where dragon riding was conceived, and fifty years later,
Anne McCaffrey’s epic tale remains a masterpiece of adventure,
intrigue, and romance!”—Danielle L. Jensen, New York Times
bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood
“Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels are truly foundational books. The
seeds of every dragonrider story are here, if not of every take on
magical bonding. They carried me away as a young reader, and I hope
they’ll do so for new readers now.”—Naomi Novik, author of the
Temeraire series
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