- Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), American Science fiction, Life on other planets
For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Anne McCaffrey
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Ballantine Books Inc., Transworld Pub
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345458605
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Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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