Anne McCaffrey, the veteran SF author most famous for her Dragonriders of Pern series, has died of a massive stroke at age 85, at “Dragonhold-Underhill”, her self-designed home in County Wicklow, Ireland. She was a groundbreaking pioneer in the genre – the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (1968), the first woman to win a Nebula Award (1969), the […]
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R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)
Posted: 22nd November 2011 by Brian in Literature, News, Obituaries, Science FictionTags: Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern
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