Anne McCaffrey 1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011

All the dragons of all the Weyrs keened their grief to the stars. Pern lost it’s greatest heart.

Bon Voyage Ann

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“The thing is, emotion – if it’s visibly felt by the writer – will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it” – Anne McCaffrey