RIP Anne McCaffrey

[jagilki]

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-in-remembrance

Anne McCaffrey, legendary SF and fantasy author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, has passed away. Random House has confirmed that McCaffrey died of a stroke at her home in Ireland on Monday, November 21. The initial word arrived through author Alan Baxter reporting on behalf of Trent Zelazny.

McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction, the first woman to win a Nebula Award, and the first author to hit the New York Times bestseller list with an SF title (The White Dragon).

McCaffrey leaves behind a tremendous legacy. She was active in the science fiction and fantasy fields right up to her passing and will be greatly missed.

The Dragonriders of Pern is the book series (Along with The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings) that got me into SF/Fantasy.  Back in fourth grade our teacher made us write a letter to a celebrity, I chose her and am now going to dig through for the letter she wrote back.

[Black Death]

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-in-remembrance

The Dragonriders of Pern is the book series (Along with The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings) that got me into SF/Fantasy.  Back in fourth grade our teacher made us write a letter to a celebrity, I chose her and am now going to dig through for the letter she wrote back.

Same here jag , it got me into the fantasy books... she will be missed   RIP

[Toast]

Super bummed, I had no idea! I'm almost as bummed about this as I was with Robert Jordan and Robert Asprin. That completes the sad trifecta of death's coming in threes. The Pern books were among the first set of books I was given as a kiddo, and it kept me reading fantasy years later, even when other writes began to phone it in. (Feist, DeLancie, the late, great Deitz)