Anne McCaffrey was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.
She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. She became a Writers of the Future judge in 1985.
In addition to the Dragonriders of Pern series, she also wrote the Acorna series, the Brain & Brawn Ship series, the Crystal Singer series, the Dinosaur Planet series, the Doona series, the Freedom series, and many other novels, both alone and in collaboration with other authors. Co-authors included Margaret Ball, Mercedes Lackey, her son Todd McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, S.M. Stirling, and Robin Wood.
Anne received the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts in 2004. The Science Fiction Writers of America named her a Grand Master in 2005.
She sent the following words to celebrate the 25th Anniversary Awards event:
“Writers of the Future and its artistic counterpart have been sponsored by a visionary like L. Ron Hubbard who wanted to make it easier for all of us to be published. . . . Now you must go forward with even more creative works. Mr. Hubbard has set the scene for you. Get on with it.” -Anne McCaffrey
28 авг 2024
