Today marks the end of an era: author Anne McCaffrey passed away at the age of 85, from a stroke at her home in Ireland. I remember the first time I saw an Anne McCaffrey book: I was in a used ...

Mother and son team up again (after 2008's Dragon Harper) to extend Anne McCaffrey's long-running Dragonriders of Pern series. Smooth, clear writing allows the well-realized characters to resonate ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here every Wednesday. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) Anne McCaffrey died a week and a half ago, on November 21. I never met her — she lived in Ireland in a house called ...

The world of science fiction seems to be a great gene pool of original material to draw new and exciting concepts for video games. In the world of sci-fi, rare is it for any reader not to have heard ...

Twitter just lit up a while ago and confirmation stories have gone out in the last few minutes. Anne McCaffrey, author of the Dragonriders of Pern, Crystal Singer, and Rowan series (amongst many ...

Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey has died. She was 85 and died at her home in Ireland after a stroke on Nov. 21, according to Del Rey Books and Random House. The science fiction and fantasy ...

Bestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, ""Ever the Twain."" Tom Kidd's ...

The very first thought I had when the wonderful dragons in James Cameron's Avatar appeared on-screen was that Cameron must do a Pern movie. Because his dragons were Anne McCaffrey's dragons made real.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Anne McCaffrey, who gained legendary status in the sci-fi realm with her ...

Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern book series has garnered generations of fans. Now it’s about to be translated for the screen by the screenwriter for Watchmen and X2, David Hayter. According to ...