:( RIP anne

[Lady's Human]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/23/anne_mccaffrey/

Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey dies


Pioneering fantasy writer was 85

Amazing author.

[smokey the elder]

She will be missed. I think I have most of her books, including the ones she has co-written with her son Todd.

As a life-imitating-art aside, we might have our very own "Red Star": Nemesis, the as-yet undiscovered second half of Sol's binary pair. Instead of sending out Thread, it sends comets from the Oort cloud every 26 million years!

[Karen]

Rest in peace, and fly with the dragons, dear lady!

[mrspunkysmom]

I am so sorry to hear this. She was a fantastic author.

[jennielynn1970]

Sad to hear this... She was a favorite of mine in my middle school library. Hard to get the kids interested in her lately... they wanted shorter books, but she was a fantastic writer.