Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American 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.
In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Life on other planets, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Space colonies, Science Fiction, Dragons, Pern (Imaginary place), American Science fiction, Pern (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Fiction in English, Pern, Acorna (Fictitious character), Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Acorna (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, general, Space ships, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Telepathy, Women, Children's fictionPlaces
Pern, Amazon rainforest, Baker Street, Bulgaria, Calcutta, Caribbean, England, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, London, Pern (Imaginary place), Ship-Trap Island, Surrey, Tibet, Verona, the fictional space federation, the planet IretaPeople
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20th century, 1890, 19e siècle, 19th century, 20e siècle, Feudal Society, Hundreds of years in the future., Sci-Fi, The Far Future, To 1066, future, futurist, futuristic, in an unspecified fictional futureID Numbers
- OLID: OL19880A
- BookBrainz: e9ccc9d9-9e24-45c9-a760-9b516cd186b9
- GoodReads: 26
- ISNI: 0000000122841319
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 11920732X
- IMDb: nm2275817
- Library of Congress Names: n50009225
- LibraryThing: mccaffreyanne
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- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV109914
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- Wikidata: Q233046
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Alternative names
- Mary Anne McCaffrey
- Anne McCaffey