The Passing of the Golden Queen of Pern

[riverbella]

I just learned that Anne McCaffrey has died, or perhaps just gone between for the last time. I "met" her dragons when I was fourteen and fell madly in love. Those books, and many others of her crafting, gave me hours of joy and tears and escape--along with a great desire for a dragon, or at least a fire lizard, of my own. She has certainly left

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[harrigan]

I hadn't heard the sad news, but I too embarked on many happy journeys to Pern! She'll be missed!

[chemm80]

Amazing books. Audrey has just been rereading them on her Kindle. The Ship Who Sang was my first experience of her writing; I'll never forget it.

[arliss]

My progression was Norton, McCaffrey, McKinley, and on to Cherryh, LeGuin, and hosts of others. But Norton got me for sheer far-flung storytelling, McCaffrey for scope, before loosing me on the genre. Whatever issues I had with her characters later on, she propelled me breathless onward. If I have a gravestone, it wll read "Too toothless old to flame, too slow to get between". (Either that, or "I TOLD you I was sick!")

[sylvanwitch]

I'm so sorry to hear that she's passed. I've never read the Pern books, but I adored her Crystal Singer series and thought it was just fantastic. Like you, I spent hours in that world, and her heroine (whose name I've forgotten, which seems like a good reason to find those books again) inspired a confused, lonely young adult to be a strong woman.

As a lover of books who's lost some of her favorite authors, I completely empathize with your loss, hon.

*hugs*

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