What is with that? F‘lar pretty much expects Lessa to obey him without question and likes to shake her into submission, when she doesn‘t. I have questions now that I didn‘t ask in the early 80s, when I read this for the first time. But first there is this, the beginning of the Dragonriders of Pern.

The three Harperhall books are my favourite story arc as well. He is one of my favourite characters of the series. The fun truly starts for me, when Robinton shows up. And now there are some additional books that I have never read.

And it is definitely the very first time I am reading it in the original English. Unfortunately I do not have my old paperbacks anymore, I gave them all away 25 years ago, when I moved. I can‘t say how many times I have read this series. They meet, they become a pair due to external circumstances, they seem to be fond of each other eventually and maybe in love and definitely possessive. I can live with that in such a long running series. The first 150 pages are a lot of set-up and world building. People fighting the good fight on dragonback. Why is this one of my favourite fantasy series of all time? Sentient dragons, talking telepathically to their riders. She died at the age of 85, after suffering a massive stroke on 21 November 2011. McCaffrey’s talents as a story-teller are best displayed. It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern that Ms. Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s. By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures.

Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The dragons of pern series in order