F'lar is an asshole at times, but he needs to be tough and a leader. Yes, this book can be conveyed as being misogynistic, but I don't think that's fair to the main characters. Let me tell you that I hate Jericho-fucking-Barrons (come ON, I have a fucking shelf named after him, for Christ's sake). It's a mishmash of several genres that worked surprisingly well.įrom the other reviews of the book I've read, the main complaints about the book seems to be the fact that the leading male character is kind of an asshole, of the Jericho-fucking-Barrons sort. I started reading this series really young, and got so caught up in the whole "OMG DRAGONS" part of it that I didn't even realize until later that this book had sci-fi elements, namely, that we are on a different freaking planet here. Their complaints are valid, but I still regard this as one of the best sci-fi fantasies I've ever read. I understand that this book (and series) has a lot of haters. She died at the age of 85, after suffering a massive stroke on 21 November 2011. McCaffrey’s talents as a story-teller are best displayed. It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern that Ms. Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s. By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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