Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey. She studied Slavonic Languages and Literature at Radcliffe College. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in l952, Todd, born in l956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970 after which she emigrated to Ireland.

In 1968 McCaffrey's short story "Weyr Search", the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo for Best Novella. It was the first time a woman had won a Hugo for fiction.

She currently lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Books

Dragonriders of Pern and/or Chronicles of Pern

• Dragonflight (1968) (the first section is derived from "Weyr Search")
• Dragonquest (1970)
• Dragonsong (1976)
• Dragonsinger (1977)
• The White Dragon (1978)
• Dragondrums (1979)
• Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983)
• Get off the Unicorn (1987)
• Nerilka's Story (1986)
• Dragonsdawn (1988)
• Renegades of Pern (1989)
• All the Weyrs of Pern (1991)
• The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993)
• The Dolphins' Bell (1993)
• The Dolphins of Pern (1994)
• The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994)
• Red Star Rising (Hardback/Hardcover) and Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern (Paperback) (1996) (called Dragon's Eye for US release)
• Masterharper of Pern (1998)
• The Skies of Pern (2001)
• Dragon's Kin (2003) (with her son Todd McCaffrey)

The Ship Series

• The Ship Who Sang (1969) (short stories)
• PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball
• The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey
• The City Who Fought (1993) with S. M. Stirling
• The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye
• Brain Ships (2003) (includes The Ship Who Searched and Partnership)
• The Ship who Saved the Worlds (includes The Ship who Won and The Ship Errant)
• The City and the Ship (includes The City who Fought and The Ship Avenged)

(This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye.)

The Pegasus Series

• To Ride Pegasus (1973) (short stories)
• Pegasus in Flight (1990)
• Pegasus in Space (2000)

The Tower and Hive Series

• The Rowan (1990) (partly based on the short "Lady in the Tower")
• Damia (1991) (partly based on the short "A Meeting of Minds")
• Damia's Children (1993)
• Lyon's Pride (1994)
• The Tower and the Hive (1999)

The Dinosaur Planet Series / Planet Pirates Series

• Dinosaur Planet (1978) and Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984), published together as Mystery of Ireta (2003)
• Sassinak (1990) with Elizabeth Moon
• The Death of Sleep (1990) with Jody Lynn Nye
• Generation Warriors (1991) with Elizabeth Moon

The Crystal Singer Series

• Crystal Singer (1982)
• Killashandra (1986)
• Crystal Line (1992)

(Several "Crystal Singer" short stories also appear in the anthologies Continuum 2 and Continuum 4, both edited by Roger Elwood.)

The Doona Series

• Decision at Doona (1969)
• Crisis on Doona (1992) with Jody Lynn Nye
• Treaty at Doona (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye

The Petaybee Series

• Powers That Be (1993) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Power Lines (1994) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Power Play (1995) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

The Freedom (Catteni) Series

• Freedom's Landing (1995)
• Freedom's Choice (1996)
• Freedom's Challenge (1998)
• Freedom's Ransom (2002)

The Acorna Series

• Acorna the Unicorn Girl (1997) with Margaret Ball
• Acorna's Quest (1998) with Margaret Ball
• Acorna's People (1999) with Margaret Ball
• Acorna's World (2000) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Acorna's Search (2001) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Acorna's Rebels (2003) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Romances

• The Mark of Merlin (1971)
• Ring of Fear (1971)
• The Kilternan Legacy (1975)
• Stitch in Snow (1985)
• The Year of the Lucy (1986)
• The Lady (1987)

Other

• Restoree (1967)
• The Coelura (1983)
• Black Horses for the King (1996)
• An Exchange of Gifts (1996)
• No One Noticed the Cat (1996)
• Space Opera (1996) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• If Wishes were Horses (1998)
• Nimisha's Ship (1998)