author: anne mccaffrey

[seperis]

Anne McCaffrey has died. The first woman to win the Hugo and the Nebula, and her Dragonriders books, her Lessa and Brekke and Menolly, her Rowan and The Ship that Sang, Crystal Singer and the breadth of her works between I owe a debt of gratitude for that I'll carry until the day I die.

I honestly had no idea how much this would hurt, one of the women whose work built the foundation of my love of sci-fi and fantasy, dragons and starships, but mostly, the people she created in the worlds she built who embodied all the potential of what we could become.

Comments

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of freaked out that I keep breaking into tears. She was pretty much my first sci-fi fantasy; I was like, twelve when I found Dragonflight and a woman who rode a queen dragon and saved the world.

I really, really didn't expect it to hit me like this.

[averzierlia.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, same age for me.

I'm not crying but it's a close thing. I'm so sad...I love her so much. DoP is like, my go to for dragons. I have self insert fantasies about impressing a dragon when I'm bored! :( :( :(

[apetslife.livejournal.com]

Same age for me, with the Dragonsong and Dragonsinger books. A girl who could sing, and make music, and hear dragons, and just. WOW. It blew my mind and changed my life.

[crown-of-ice.livejournal.com]

You and me both...her books got me through the hardest years of my life. They were my first introduction into Grown Up books. I just...I cannot even begin to cope with this. At all. The fact that the Great Lady is gone seems utterly unreal.