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Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85

Posted by Soulskill on from the rest-in-peace dept.

JSC writes "Anne McCaffrey died Monday at her home after suffering a stroke. 'In the late 1960s she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for a work of fiction and the first woman to win a Nebula Award. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.' She will be missed by Dragons and their Riders the world over."

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  1. with regret... by roc97007 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... due to her first six books, not the ones that came after.

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    1. Re:with regret... by cheekyjohnson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      The person is a worthless lump of meat now. Who cares?

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    2. Re:with regret... by geekoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I'm alive, and I don't care.

      But thanks for telling everyone else how to live. Dick.

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  2. Re:Shards by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd suggest that a reading age of 16 is somewhat excessive for McCaffrey. There's nothing particularly objectionable about her work, but it's essentially Choose Your Own Adventure level writing, with the choices removed.

    I hope her afterlife has a thesaurus so that she can look up alternatives to "slathering".

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  3. Re:tanka by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I hope that's yours and not hers. The rhyme scheme is bizarre and the scansion is frankly awful.

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  4. Re:Shards by geekoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Didn't get half way through? you could have gone to the library and used a dictionary to help you with the big words.

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