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Dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey
Dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey






dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey

This book started my fascination with Fantasy & SciFi.

dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey

I could really relate to the courageous Menolly as a youngster. You might enjoy Ann McCaffrey's writing style it is lively and inventive. This is the unforgettably enchanting & engaging tale that I remember. 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.

dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey

Classic early Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011).Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the Great Hall, Menolly could fulfil her destiny. Music of compelling beauty, music making where at last she was accepted. Two things sustained her, her devoted lizards, a subject on which she was fitted to instruct her Masters, and the music. But the holdless girl had first to overcome many heartaches in this strange new life. The Masterharper of Pern, aware of her unique skills, had chosen her as his only girl apprentice. When Menolly, daughter of Yanus Sea Holder, arrived at the Harper Craft Hall, she came in style, aboard a huge bronze dragon, followed by her nine fire lizards. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine faded, not price clipped (price on publisher's sticker on back flap £3.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy.








Dragonsinger by anne mccaffrey