Even this was a challenge to find just a handful of quotes I love and which I felt were particularly relevant to our times and not, like, just plagiarize her entire Pern canon here. So in the interests of making this post not a thousand miles long, I stuck with quotes only from her Dragonriders of Pern series. However, as much as I adore ALL of her books, Pern was the scene of my first introduction to her, my true and abiding love. McCaffrey’s canon is huge and she wrote many various series.
Really, sci-fi/fantasy provide an ideal medium to do so because they allow those topics to be discussed at a comfortable distance if needed. It was from her works that I first began to understand that science-fiction and fantasy could, and did, discuss important social issues. She was the first one whose work I connected with at a really emotional level. She was the first novelist whose death made me cry. I grew up reading her books, particularly her Dragonriders of Pern series.
November 21 marks the fifth anniversary of Anne McCaffrey’s death.
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