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Anne Inez McCaffrey
Pseudonym:	Anne McCaffrey
Born	April 1, 1926 (1926-04-01) (age 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	American
Writing period	1968 to the present
Genres	fiction
Subjects	science fiction
Website	Anne McCaffrey's official site

Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.

Contents 1 Life and work 2 Books 2.1 Federated Sentient Planets universe 2.1.1 Dragonriders of Pern series 2.1.2 The Ship series 2.1.3 The Crystal Singer series 2.1.4 The Dinosaur Planet series 2.1.5 The Planet Pirates trilogy 2.1.6 Standalone novels 2.2 The Talents universe 2.2.1 The Pegasus Series 2.2.2 The Tower and Hive Series 2.3 The Doona series 2.4 The Petaybee Series (Powers series) 2.4.1 The Twins of Petaybee Series 2.5 The Catteni Series (Freedom series) 2.6 The Acorna Series 2.6.1 Acorna's Children Series 2.7 Romances 3 References 4 External links

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy. She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), a Major in the US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.

Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, an all-girl boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. She then went to Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literature in 1947. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd, born in 1956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland.

In 1968 McCaffrey's short story "Weyr Search", the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo Award for Best Novella. McCaffrey thus became the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction.

At the 2005 Nebula Award ceremonies, McCaffrey was named the 22nd Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America organization. In 2006 she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

She currently lives in a house of her own design in County Wicklow, Ireland, and calls her home Dragonhold-Underhill.

While many of McCaffrey's most famous works are set in a universe which is governed by The Federated Sentient Planets or "FSP", these are not set in the same universe. The FSP is a story telling background that the author has found to be a useful tool.

• Dragonflight (1968) (the first section is derived from Weyr Search) ISBN 0-345-45633-5, ISBN 0-552-08453-0
• Dragonquest (1970) ISBN 0-345-33508-2
• A Time When (1975) (NESFA Press) ISBN 0-915368-07-2

(became the first part The White Dragon)

• Dragonsong (1976) ISBN 0-689-86008-0
• Dragonsinger (1977) ISBN 0-689-86007-2
• The White Dragon (1978) ISBN 0-345-34167-8
• Dragondrums (1979) ISBN 0-689-86006-4
• Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983) ISBN 0-345-29873-X
• Nerilka's Story (1986) ISBN 0-345-33949-5
• Dragonsdawn (1988) ISBN 0-345-36286-1
• The Renegades of Pern (1989) ISBN 0-345-36933-5
• All the Weyrs of Pern (1991) ISBN 0-345-36893-2
• The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993) ISBN 0-345-36899-1

  This is a collection of short stories:

  • "The Survey: P.E.R.N."
  • "The Dolphins' Bell"
  • "The Ford of Red Hanrahan"
  • "The Second Weyr"
  • "Rescue Run" (originally appeared in Analog)
• The Dolphins of Pern (1994) ISBN 0-345-36895-9
• The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994) ISBN 0-8125-1099-2
• Red Star Rising (Hardback) and Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern (Paperback) (1996) ISBN 0-552-14272-7

(called Dragon's Eye for U.S. release, ISBN 0-345-41879-4)

• The Masterharper of Pern (1998) ISBN 0-345-42460-3
• The Runner of Pern (1998) (a short story; included in the Legends anthology edited by Robert Silverberg ISBN 0-312-86787-5.)
• The Skies of Pern (2001) ISBN 0-345-43469-2
• A Gift of Dragons (2002) ISBN 0-345-45635-1

  This is a collection of four short stories:

  • "The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973)
  • "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1994)
  • "Runner of Pern" (1998)
  • "Ever the Twain" (2002)
• Dragon's Kin (2003) (with her son Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-46200-9
• Beyond Between (2004) (a short story; included in the Legends II anthology edited by Robert Silverberg ISBN 0-345-45644-0.)
• Dragonsblood (2005) (Written by Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-44124-9
• Dragon's Fire (July 2006) (with her son Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-48028-7
• After the Fall (forthcoming in 2008)

The stories of this series deal with the various adventures of 'shellpersons' - people who as young children or infants have had to be hardwired into a life support system, with sensory input and motor nerves tied into a computer. They serve as starship pilots, colony administrators while paying off their debt for education and hardware - and then in whatever capacity they choose, as free agents.

It should be noted that the Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books, as Brainship-Brawn pairings were characters in the second and third volumes of that series.

• The Ship Who Sang (1969) (short story collection with stories from 1961, 1966, and 1969) ISBN 0-345-33431-0
• PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-671-72109-7
• The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey, ISBN 0-671-72129-1
• The City Who Fought (1993) with S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87599-X
• The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87657-0

• This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye:
  • The Ship Errant (1996) by Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87854-9
  • The Ship Avenged (1997) by S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87861-1

• Omnibus versions of the above novels:
  • Brain Ships (2003) (includes The Ship Who Searched and Partnership) ISBN 0-7434-7166-0
  • The Ship who Saved the Worlds (2003) (includes The Ship Who Won and The Ship Errant) ISBN 0-7434-7171-7
  • The City and the Ship (2004) (includes The City Who Fought and The Ship Avenged) ISBN 0-7434-7189-X

The Crystal Singer series revolves around the planet Ballybran. Under a permanent biohazard travel restriction, Ballybran is home to one of the FSP's wealthiest, yet most reclusive organizations—the Heptite Guild. Source of invaluable crystals vital to various industries, the Heptite Guild is known to require absolute, perfect pitch in hearing and voice for all applicants, especially those seeking to mine crystal by song...

• Crystal Singer (1982) ISBN 0-345-32786-1 (first published in four parts in Continuum 1, 2, 3, & 4, edited by Roger Elwood)
• Killashandra (1986) ISBN 0-345-31600-2 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, in a minor role. This was not a main character in any novel.)
• Crystal Line (1992) ISBN 0-345-38491-1 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, although not a main character in any novel, and, furthermore, is not the same Brainship from 'Killashandra')

When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.

• Dinosaur Planet (1978) ISBN 0-345-31995-8
• Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984) ISBN 0-345-27246-3

Mystery of Ireta (2003) — omnibus edition of Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, ISBN 0-345-46721-3

All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the spacelanes. In this series, survivors on Ireta and survivors of space pirate attacks join forces.

• Sassinak (1990-03-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-69863-X
• The Death of Sleep (1990-06-01) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-69884-2
• Generation Warriors (1991-02-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-72041-4

The Planet Pirates (1993-10-01) — omnibus trade paperback collection of the above trilogy, ISBN 0-671-72187-9

Note: The Planet Pirates and Dinosaur Planet books share the same universe and certain characters. The events of Dinosaur Planet overlap with the final chapters of The Death of Sleep, as does Dinosaur Planet Survivors with Sassinak; Generation Warriors continues and concludes the storylines of both series.

• Restoree (1967) ISBN 0-552-08344-5
• The Coelura (1983) ISBN 0-312-93042-9
• No One Noticed the Cat (1996)
• A Diversity of Dragons (1997) with Richard Woods, illustrated by John Howe
• Black Horses for the King (1998)
• If Wishes Were Horses (1998)
• Nimisha's Ship (1998) ISBN 0-345-43425-0

The Coelura is short novel in the same universe as Nimisha's Ship.

The Coelura is usually printed together with Nerilka's Story.

The Talents universe involves a society built around the Talents of telepathic, telekinetic individuals who become integral to the connectivity of interstellar society.

• To Ride Pegasus (1973) (short stories) ISBN 0-345-33603-8
• Pegasus in Flight (1990) ISBN 0-345-36897-5
• Pegasus in Space (2000) ISBN 0-345-43467-6

• The Rowan (1990) (partly based on the short "Lady in the Tower") ISBN 0-441-73576-2
• Damia (1991) (partly based on the short "A Meeting of Minds") ISBN 0-441-13556-0
• Damia's Children (1993) ISBN 0-441-00007-X
• Lyon's Pride (1994) ISBN 0-441-00141-6
• The Tower and the Hive (1999) ISBN 0-441-00720-1

Two civilizations in near-identical circumstances - an overlarge, lethargic population and a tragic history with sentient aliens - end up attempting to colonize the same planet by accident. What the humans don't know is that the people they've misidentified as nomadic natives are actually more technically advanced than themselves - and under no such illusions regarding 'them'.

• Decision at Doona (1969) ISBN 0-345-35377-3
• Crisis on Doona (1992) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-23194-2
• Treaty at Doona (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-00089-4
• Doona (2004) an omnibus edition of the latter two books of the trilogy, ISBN 0-441-01131-4

• Powers That Be (1993) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Power Lines (1994) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Power Play (1995) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

• Changelings (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47002-8
• Maelstrom (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47004-4
• Deluge (2008) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47006-0

• Freedom's Landing (1995) (based on the 1970 short story "The Thorns of Barevi" which appears in the 1977 collection Get Off the Unicorn) ISBN 0-441-00338-9
• Freedom's Choice (1996) ISBN 0-441-00531-4
• Freedom's Challenge (1998) ISBN 0-441-00625-6
• Freedom's Ransom (2002) ISBN 0-441-01020-2

• Acorna the Unicorn Girl (1997) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105789-4
• Acorna's Quest (1998) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105790-8
• Acorna's People (1999) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105983-8
• Acorna's World (2000) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105984-6
• Acorna's Search (2001) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81846-9
• Acorna's Rebels (2003) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81847-7
• Acorna's Triumph (2004) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81848-5

• First Warning (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-052539-8
• Second Wave (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052540-1
• Third Watch (2007) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052541-X

• The Mark of Merlin (1971) ISBN 1-58715-493-5
• Ring of Fear (1971) ISBN 1-58715-016-6
• The Kilternan Legacy (1975) ISBN 1-58715-793-4
• Stitch in Snow (1985) ISBN 0-8125-8562-3
• The Year of the Lucy (1986) ISBN 0-8125-8565-8
• The Lady (1987) ISBN 0-345-35674-8

Three Women contains the first three listed in an omnibus edition.

• Brizzi, Mary (Mary A. Turzillo). Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffery, Starmont Press (Reader's Guide Series) 1986.
• Lennard, John, 'Of Modern Dragons: Antiquity, Modernity, and the Descendants of Smaug', in Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction, Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84760-038-7
• McCaffrey, Anne, ‘Retrospection’, in Denise DuPont, ed., Women of Vision, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1988. ISBN 0-312-02321-9
• McCaffrey, Todd, Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey by her son New York: Ballantine, 1999. ISBN 0-345-42217-1
• Roberts, Robin. Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-29450-X

• Anne McCaffrey Official Site
• Anne McCaffrey Biography
• Interview with Anne McCaffrey at SFFWorld.com
• Bibliography at SciFan
• Bibliography at The Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Anne McCaffrey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• 1988 audio interview of Anne McCaffrey by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio at Wired for Books.
• Anne McCaffrey Guest of Honour at Eurocon 2007

Persondata
NAME	McCaffrey, Anne Inez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1 April 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH