Rest in Peace, Anne.

[nenena]

Anne McCaffrey passed away yesterday.

I remember spending my sixth grade summer gorging myself on all of the Pern books that I could find, begging my mom to drive me to a library inconveniently located downtown and one city over because our local library didn't have a copy of Dragondrums, and writing F'nor/Brekke fanfiction in a notebook before I even knew what fanfic was. As a kid I didn't know anything about Hugo or Nebula awards or why it was so groundbreaking that McCaffrey was the first woman to win either, or why it was such a big deal that she was the first author ever to get a science-fiction novel on the New York Times Bestseller List. But I do know that Pern will always have a special place in my heart.

ETA: A beautiful tribute poem by Yonmei.

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[wanderingdreamr.livejournal.com]

I remember reading tons of her books back in middle school too, my parents had a lot and then the library had an incredible number of them (thankfully my library was a bit closer than yours). My mom even laughed when she saw that most of my college classes are in a building called Harper Hall, it just seemed rather appropriate, she will be missed.