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Mccaffrey, Anne (1926—)
It is often overlooked that in 1968 novelist Anne McCaffrey became the first woman to win the Hugo award (Best Novella, Weyr Search) and the Nebula award (Best Novella, ...
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Anne McCaffrey is a writer of many firsts: the first woman to win science fiction's coveted Hugo and Nebula Awards; the first sci-fi writer to break into the New York Times bestseller lists; and the f...
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"To be born, as I was, on April First imposes a certain responsibility on you to Be Someone. At nine I was convinced that being a writer was the easiest way to accomplish this goal. My first novel was...
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Anne McCaffrey is one of the most prominent writers of science fiction today. Her special contribution has been to make emotion and love respectable subjects in science fiction. Born in Cambridge, Mas...
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Critical Essay by Susan L. Nickerson
In this collection of 14 stories [Get Off the Unicorn] (three not previously published), the reader meets new friends and is reunited with old ones…. Most o...
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Critical Essay by Evie Wilson and Michael Mccue
[Get Off the Unicorn is a delightful collection] of science fiction short stories…. McCaffrey—a master storyteller—makes the collec...
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Critical Essay by Mary M. Burns
Details of the apprentices' lives—rigorous curriculum and teaching methods, food, clothing, and societal relationships—give verisimilitude to [Drag...
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