RIP Anne McCaffrey
Nov. 22nd, 2011 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsReported by tor.com that Anne McCaffrey has passed away.
I'll always remember her for the Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums trilogy. I love the academy milieu in SF&F, where young people step out of their ordinary lives into a setting where they can truly shine for the first time, but they must earn their success. I didn't care so much about the dragonriders, but these-- well, these books sang to me.
I'll always remember her for the Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums trilogy. I love the academy milieu in SF&F, where young people step out of their ordinary lives into a setting where they can truly shine for the first time, but they must earn their success. I didn't care so much about the dragonriders, but these-- well, these books sang to me.
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Date: 2011-11-22 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-23 12:35 am (UTC)I must've read the Dragonsong trilogy, especially the first two, over a dozen times when I was growing up. I adored those books. I loved the Dragonriders too, but not as much.
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Date: 2011-11-23 02:40 am (UTC)She's not really dead...
Date: 2011-11-23 11:17 pm (UTC)*quiet nod* She'll be missed. And the stories will live on.
-T'ldin, rider of blue Sudrith
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Date: 2011-11-24 09:05 am (UTC)One of the great ones.
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Date: 2011-11-24 04:59 pm (UTC)