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Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world’s leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards’ Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series.
The White Dragon
Dragonquest
Sky Dragons
Dragon's Time
Catacombs
On Dragonwings
Catalyst
Deluge
Dragon Harper
Maelstrom
Dragon's Fire
Changelings
Dragonflight
Dragon's Kin
Legends II: Shadows, Gods, and Demons
Doona
The Mystery of Ireta
Legends II
Freedom's Ransom
A Gift of Dragons
Restoree
Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Nimisha's Ship
The Skies of Pern
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Pegasus in Space
The Tower and the Hive
Freedom's Challenge
The Masterharper of Pern
Freedom's Choice
Dragonseye
Freedom's Landing
Power Play
The Dolphins of Pern
Power Lines
Lyon's Pride

Books

The White Dragon
Dragonquest
Sky Dragons
Dragon's Time
Catacombs
On Dragonwings
Catalyst
Deluge
Dragon Harper
Maelstrom
Dragon's Fire
Changelings
Dragonflight
Dragon's Kin
Legends II: Shadows, Gods, and Demons
Doona
The Mystery of Ireta
Legends II
Freedom's Ransom
A Gift of Dragons
Restoree
Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Nimisha's Ship
The Skies of Pern
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Pegasus in Space
The Tower and the Hive
Freedom's Challenge
The Masterharper of Pern
Freedom's Choice
Dragonseye
Freedom's Landing
Power Play
The Dolphins of Pern
Power Lines
Lyon's Pride

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