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The Secret History of Fantasy --introduction Beagle, appendix LeGuin, appendix Hartwell --excellent

The Secret History of Science Fiction --introduction James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, eds.

Dryad; Greek legendary creatures

Category:Magic (paranormal); Category:Mythological powers (odd combo)

Stage magic; mentalism

The disambiguation Magical creature is clear that there may be nothing magic (paranormal) about them, and suggests that no such thing is usual. Good.

[[Magic (paranormal)

symbols 2.2 Magic often utilizes symbols that are thought to be intrinsically efficacious.

language 2.3 inherent ability of words to influence the universe

Witchcraft. Their maleficium is often seen as a biological trait or an acquired skill.[39] Known members of the community may be accused as witches, or the witches may be perceived as supernatural, non-human entities.[40]

Hypotheses of adherents "Adherents to magic believe that it may work by one or more of the following basic principles:[citation needed] / A mystical force or energy

DWJones "Magic"

thinking

clairaudience, clairvoyoance, empathy, shapeshifting[as illusion?]

telepathy, precognition(prophecy), "sixth sense"

others? possession[coercion], magelight, bump of direction, retrocognition, psychometry

physical --some but not all psi-kappa action

bilocation, firestarting, (levitation)telekinesis, teleportation(apportation), healing

others?

mediumship - how to classify?

Paranormal opinion polls. (3 of 13 dropped by Gallup 2001 to 2005) psychic/spiritual healing, demonic possession, extraterrestrials

Talent, in fsf contrast with external source and inherently magical beings

Talents universe

magic in fiction, aka magic (fantasy)

superhuman, superpower, magical object

Category:Paranormal fiction may contain other appropriate targets

magic in fiction sections 2, 3 lead, 3.1.2, 3.1.6 do concern the portrayal in fiction of traditional magic (the human activity)

magic (paranormal), this article

magic and religion, paranormal, psionic,

Talk:Incantation

Talk:Magick Talk:Magic (paranormal) Talk:Supernatural fiction Talk:Supernatural drama Talk:Magic realism Talk:Magic (supernatural) (redirect)

Talk:Disney Channel Middle East Talk:Amadigi di Gaula Talk:Colosseum

Talk:Magical formula

Superhuman; Superpower (ability)

Brief report

Several redirects now target the disambiguation Magic rather than this page. I first disambiguated every article using these links; hence only User pages, Talk pages, etc, now target the disambiguation page via these redirects. See Pages that link to "Magic".

magical, magically, magic powers, magical powers

For perhaps 5 of 150 articles I posted some explanation (Talk), otherwise only a helpful edit summary.

More information to follow but I must run. --P64 (talk) 21:00, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

ritual magic or ceremonial magic

fictional human characters that perform or study magic

fairy-tale may also be appropriate. I thought of that only in regard to Disney where I though of the old Magic Kingdom logo and "magic castle"

enchanting, fairy-like/tale, baroque

Magic the disambiguation Magical; Magically; Magic powers; Magical powers; Magic (supernatural)

For the three that were in use, I changed about 50, 7, and 7 to target magic in fiction directly --never a section link, although magic in fiction#Magic via enchanted objects is superficially appropriate for dozens of them-- and about half to target magic (paranormal) directly. Perhaps 10 now target other articles. I left about 5 notices on talk pages --including one concerning Disney magic. Only the latter article needs to be disambiguated or unlinked, as I left it.

Because these articles previously linked magic (paranormal) i replaced the redirect link with a direct link to that page liberally.

?  Abaia legendary/mythological eel
?  Colosseum statue of Nero with powers, unexplained, perhaps symbolic meaning instead
?  Snowdon stone/location with powers

target magic (paranormal) directly [rather than "magical" which redirects there] (magic and religion or simply paranormal may be appropriate)

target magic in fiction rather than ["magical" which redirects to] magic (paranormal) (simply paranormal or psionic may be appropriate)

target magic (paranormal) rather than magic (supernatural) (consider whether magic and religion or simply paranormal or psionic may be appropriate)

target magic in fiction rather than magic (paranormal) which is about human Anthropology and Religion

Beside the targets that I mentioned parenthetically, Superhuman or Superpower (ability) may be appropriate for as many as one-third of the articles that previously targeted this page via magical(ly) or magic(al) powers; that is, perhaps more than half of those that I changed to target magic in fiction.

Magical object redirects to Magic in fiction --perhaps should target the objects section-- and it would be an appropriate in as many as one-third of the articles.

Category:Paranormal including subcat Paranormal fiction may include targets more appropriate than this page or magic in fiction.

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics Magical powers

use these links: magic in fiction, paranormal, psionic

don't use these: magic(al) power(s), magical(ly)

Talk:Magic (paranormal)#What redirects here now?

enchantment --disambiguation; targets Incantation in effect

The next three articles may be superior targets for some links here, especially via the "ritual" redirects.

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related articles

Ceremonial magic

Folk religion <== Folk magic redirects

Incantation

Magic (gaming)

Magic and religion

Magick

Magic word

Magic formula

Witchcraft

100 Best

/100 Best

Locus All-time Best Novels

set in the fictional Hainish universe, which she inaugurated in 1966.

In 1987, Locus: The magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field ranked it number two among "All-Time Best SF Novels", based on a poll of subscribers.

recent visits

Talk:List of literary genres

Epic (genre) talk; Gaslamp fantasy talk; Mythopoeia (genre) talk <= Artificial mythology; Magic realism talk; Fabulation talk; Heroic fantasy (Talk: Heroic fantasy); Talk: Epic fantasy redirect talk; Historical fantasy talk; Urban fantasy talk; Contemporary fantasy talk <= Talk: Modern fantasy;

High fantasy <= Epic fantasy
Low fantasy
Supernatural fiction "In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction includes examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, fantasy fiction, and such sub-genres as vampire literature and the ghost story."

Talk: Ace Books

Cf inspired by the California Dept Educ list:

Fable; Fairy tale; Fantasy; Folklore; 
Historical fiction; Legend; Mythology; 
Science fiction; Tall tale

Drama; Horror fiction; Humor; 
Mystery fiction; Poetry; Realistic fiction

Crime fiction; Detective fiction; Supernatural fiction; Speculative fiction; Western fiction

WikiProject Science fiction (WP SF) archive

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Locus Award "nominations"

As I add reviews to pages on more recent sf novels, I'm noticing a number of statements that the novel was "nominated" for a Locus Award, typically referenced to this site [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/index.asp}, "Worlds Without End". It looks nicely organized and reliable, but, at least with regard to these awards, it's not reliable. The Locus Poll doesn't have "nominations," in the way that many other awards do (eg, finalists or final-round ballot listings); instead, any item that a reader votes for is considered "nominated." What "Worlds Without End" displayed as "nominees" are simply the top five (usually) finishers in the poll. As I run across these statements, I typically change the text to more precisely reflect what occurred (eg, "placed nth in the annual Locus Poll") and replace the link with a link to the pertinent author entry on the Locus awards page. I hope other editors will take similar steps, making the coverage more accurate/reliable. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 02:04, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Clute and Nicholls

Can someone please check whether the following sentence is in the article on T. L. Sherred in that encyclopedia? "It is understood that the story was accepted for ASF in John W. CAMPBELL Jr's absence." Or to put it another way, is this a faithful copy of the S section, and if so, of what edition?

I asked yesterday at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request, but no answer yet. Sorry if anyone has seen it twice.

Thanks. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 02:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Never mind, answered (yes) at rasfw. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

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New template Isfdb contents

I have just added {{Isfdb contents}} to display publication contents listings such as:

• Analog October 1967 publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

First use is in Dragonflight. Please review this. Once it is OK, I will add see-also notes to the other isfdb templates. Thanks. --Mirokado (talk) 00:50, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction online

Slashdot reports that The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute, David Langford and Peter Nicholls, has gone live at http://sf-encyclopedia.com . It's a "beta" version of the third edition by Gollancz, and at first glance, it appears to be a treasure-trove of reliable information about SF, if a bit western-oriented. — Yerpo ^Eh? 08:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

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.. in one reference

questions for McCaffreys

dragons in cover art: Do the differences across four decades reflect changing scientific knowledge? discussion with McCaffreys? HvdB says that AIM preferred the Colin Saxton dragons (first UK Dragonsinger, Dragondrums). Which do Anne or Todd prefer now?

Hungarian refugee in the home: how long? helping raise Todd?

"Crack dust, black dust" and "Dragonflight": unpublished stories in 1967/68?

imports from Anne McCaffrey, work in progress 2011-07-18

Anne McCaffrey; Todd McCaffrey; Dragonriders of Pern; List of Pern books; /Dragonlover's Guide to Pern

People

MCCAFFREY at LOCUS SF AWARDS McCaffrey, Anne. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees.

Dramatic Mission, novella Hugo & Nebula nominee

Locus annual rankings among SF novels: orig trilogy - 5 3; Harper Hall 16 9 8; Mo 6 Ne 16 Dawn 7 Renegades 27 Weyrs 5 Chron 10 Dolph 10 Master - Skies nl; other top ten Crystal Singer 7

Gandalf 1979 book-length fantasy The White Dragon; (1980 grand master nominee)

Anne & Todd McCaffrey quotes Publisher:

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD? To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. ...

Editors

• Virginia Kidd (= Blish), agent from late 1950s
• Sam Moskowitz, Science-Fiction Plus
• Robert P. Mills, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Judith Merril, The Year's Best Science Fiction
• John W. Campbell, Analog Science Fiction and Fact

"The Ship Who Mourned", post Germany, first work publ by John Campbell(41)

Weyr Search and Dragonrider novellas

• Judy-Lynn del Rey Judy-Lynn Benjamin, Galaxy Science Fiction and Del Rey Books, Ballantine/Random House/Bertelsmann

"The Weather on Welladay", a story to match the cover painting (52)

• Betty Ballantine, Ballantine Books

Restoree 1967, Dragonflight 1968, Doona 1969

• Jean E. Karl New!, Atheneum Books disamb: "a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster"

Harper Hall

• Roger Elwood, for children or young adults

Smallest Dragonboy, for Rand McNally

Crystal Singer, four stories for Putnam Continuum

• ... , Futura Publications (Orion Books?), dinosaurs for children
• Dell romances

Andre Norton - an assist for the mutant white dragon

• Bill Fawcett - Todd M's repeat editor — any relation to the "inventor" of paperback originals?
• Shelly Shapiro, del Rey - suggested Dragonholder and maybe more - "Anne and Todd's editor" around 2006, Robin Roberts, p213 google books

TODD CEARA

Todd, Gigi, or Todd's daughter Ceara may write in her universe

[Todd says Ceara but I have lost it]

search Ceara. Ceara is one alum of Scholastic Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, for 7th-12th grade writers (The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, from 1923)

They have been rereading Harry Potter. 2010-08-09.

They live in Southern California

Todd is at Dragonhold-U for four weeks Jul/Aug

copy-edited ms Dragon's Time due tomorrow

Robin Wood

• About Robin Wood (2009). Retrieved 2011-07-25.

(born 1953) I wound up working for Mayfair games in '83, got my first Dragon cover in '85, started doing book covers for Llewellyn, and realized that, somehow, I'd become a pro.

In 1987, knowing that Anne McCaffrey was going to be at the same con I was, I did a picture of Robinton, hoping that she would buy it. She did, and it grew into a book called People of Pern.

Life

MUSIC

musical theater her final role was her first after relocation to LI(46)

RFK

classmate, same hangouts, Hyannis parties; her fave for President (32, 62–63

ANIMALS

stories featuring pets (13

cats

HORSES

"I think the nearest thing to being a dragonrider is a racehorse jockey.—Interview with Anne McCaffrey, Dragonhold, Ireland, 1987." (Dragonlover's 43

Anne McCaffrey's comments on Impression: "... To me, it's like getting up on a horse that's been schooled, and the minute you give him the aids, he knows exactly what you want, perfectly, only there's much more of a rapport. Impressing a dragon is the amalgam of everything you wanted in your pet as a child and couldn't have, because your pet wasn't up to it." (Dragonlover's 46

RELIGION

About the colony administration, "... Each man, woman, and child was expected to accept resp;nsibility for his or her own actions, and not fall back on a deity to solve problems—anoutlooke that was a side effect of the crippling Nathi war. Hysterical religions had been debunked. To the colonists, heroes were better than gods." (Dragonlover's 20

EASTERCON 1971

They (Anne & Todd?) visited Stonehenge on the drive back to the ferry.(p79) Perhaps a research trip regarding the Star Stones of Pern.

DRAGONHOLD

McCaffrey lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, and calls her home Dragonhold-Underhill for the dragons who bought it and the hill she had excavated.##105 and some book cover#. She shopped for a mortgage with the letter from Dragonsong publisher regarding the advance for a sequel (Menolly's story). The house is 26 miles from Dublin and includes stables built by AM

They were able to build stables immed for Anne & Gigi's horses (106–07)

CONVENTIONS

DRAGONCON annually includes a track devoted to Anne McCarthy (Weyrfest).

With chronic arthritis ( knee and hip replacement 2009 ) she no longer rides a horse, writes less, travels less. Plans for sequels and appearances are tentative. See her #Letter and Todd's #Dragoncon, among other sources.

Dragons

YOUNG ADULT (82-83

entertaining, housing young people espy riders (104

she completed the Harper Hall trilogy in a few years.## #(She had recently recognized Menolly in Ireland, which may have been crucial for continuing the story. --a pattern in her fiction.## #)

1975 BOSKONE Guest of Honor NESFA

A Time When (98

A Time When by Anne McCaffrey. NESFA. Retrieved 2011-07-23.

successful signing tour (103

EEDOCSMITH award (103)

royalty check $4500 Mar 75 (103

A TIME WHEN

incl "Dragondex," a concordance distilled from the previous two Dragon books, Dragonflight and Dragonquest, by Wendy Glasser.

DIVERSITY OF DRAGONS

• Illustrated by John Howe (of Tolkien calendars)
• hardcover at Amazon.com
• hardcover at Amazon.com —with useful review
• ages 9-12, 96pp

Honors

She has served as a Writers of the Future judge since 1985 and she received in 2004 the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts.

Lifetime achievement award for the Fantastic Arts, 1999 Julie Award, DragonCon (see DragonCon#Awards) --evidently the 2nd annual, for lifetime achievement, date 1999 from "Anne's Awards"

In 1999 she received the 11th Margaret A. Edwards Award from the Young Adult division of the American Library Association, for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, citing The Ship Who Sang (1969) and the first six Pern books.

Four of her novels were Hugo finalists: Dragonquest 1971, The White Dragon 1978, Moreta 1983, and All the Weyrs of Pern 1991. (Beginning 1958 the number of finalists has been 4 to 8 annually.)

Dramatic Mission (1969) was a Hugo and Nebula novella finalist.

It was the one story that impressed her husband (52-53), now late in their marriage

• Anne McCaffrey. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xgJVAH54mQ

Youtube: AM reading The Ship Who Sang at Eurocon 2007

old wiki article calls her Guest of Honor

SFHOF INDUCTION

report by Becky of "Meeting of Minds"

presenter Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Anne's address, acknowledging people who helped her: "She first thanked Michael Whelan for the cover of White Dragon. She said that she knows that’s what helped propel it to the Best Seller List. She also said that she hears from people all the time that the cover is what drew them to the book. I can attest to that since that’s exactly how I came to read Anne and also the same for my friend Donna."

Pern Museum news archives

Pern Museum from 1999 under another name

http://www.pern.nl/newsarchive.html Publication date set for Todd McCaffrey's next Pern novel Dragongirl (July 2009)

Todd visited "New York with his daughter Ceara Rose, to collect her Natianal Silver Award from the Scholastic Writers and Artists Alliance"

Congratulations Ceara Rose McCaffrey (March 2009)

Anne and Todd both tell us on their respective websites about the fact that Todd's daughter and Anne's granddaughter Ceara has won a Scholastic Gold Key Award (and certificate) from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. Ceara won the award for a story she submitted to a Christmas competition. Both father and grandmother are, of course, over the moon with this first success by Ceara who is only 14 years of age.

Pern CDs

Dec 2008 (#2) Sunsets Gold; previously Masterharper of Pern

Albacon 2008

Fortunately both Todd and Anne were Guests of Honour and Todd will be there to spread the McCaffrey charm and news.

Anne cancellation, minor heart attack at 82

April 2008

To tell the full story that Todd wants to tell in all its glory he has realized he will need to write not just one very big book but four rather large books.

Anne a big hit at Eurocon 2007 ---- (October 2007)

Anne McCaffrey fans from all over the world gathered in Denmark during the weekend of 21st - 23rd September for the 29th European Science Fiction Convention, Eurocon which was held in Copenhagen this year. On Saturday evening, during dinner, Hans van der Boom presented Anne with the first copy of "40 Years of Pern" (see also below), the book to commemorate the fact that it is forty years ago that the first Pern story was published in the SF magazine Analog. Many fans attended Anne's, who was one of the Guests of Honour at the con, interview, GoH speech and book signing and listened breathlessly to her when she read the short story "The Ship Who Sang" on the closing day of the convention. For more news, pictures and even short movies of Eurocon The Pern Museum and Archives invites you to visit the Events Board of the Anne McCaffrey forumboard "A Meeting of Minds".

Anne praises Eicher portrait of Paul Benden ---- (August 2007)

Anne emailed us and told us she was glad there was someone willing and able to fill the gap concerning Pern Portraits. She complimented Linda Eicher on her werk and wrote: "She did a marvelous job on Paul Benden a.k.a. George H. McCaffrey. And remarkable close to my father. I don't have all that many photos left of him but this is close enough and I am quite glad to read the entire entry."

Anne finishing draft of new (solo) Pern book!---- (May 2007)

Anne let us know she has the draft for a new Pern book finished! But "hold your dragons" please, as the draft hasn't even been sent to her agent yet. It's great news nonetheless. At 60,000 words around her birthday she "got the urge", she told us, and finished the draft by the end of April. The working title given to us at Anne's birthday was "New Era, Pern" but a few days ago Anne told us she dubbed it "After the Fall". While both working titles do give you an idea of at least some of the content we think a lot of readers will be in for a surprise...

Anne not appearing at Dragon*Con 2007---- (May 2007)

Anne will not be appearing at Dragon*Con this year, to be held in Atlanta, GA from August 31 to September 3. Anne was an already confirmed name on the guest list but her doctors advised against the trip. Her son Todd will be attending the convention as scheduled. "I am not ill", Anne assured us over the telephone, "but have been and am recovering from an infection". She also confirmed she will be at Eurocon, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September, where she is one of the Guests of Honour.

Nov 2006 People of Pern

... After that I obtained permission from famous 'Pern artist' Robin Wood herself to use all of her artwork for both the Dragonriders of Pern games and the book The People of Pern, for the encyclopedia!

PERN, THE INDUSTRY

Game books, video games, etc - with Anne McC?

Del Rey Books, a new division of Ballantine, published Pern compantion books five and ten years later.

• In 1984 (after the seventh Pern novel Moreta), Atlas of Pern in consultation with AIM.
• In 1989, Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye with Anne McCaffrey. Illustrated by Todd Cameron Hamilton. Maps & Illustrations by James Clouse. New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-35424-9

(back inside jacket) CLOUSE worked on Amber, Xanth guides; many games including DoP HAMILTON worked on Amber, Xanth guides NYE "four chosen-path adventures" incl DragonH, DragonF; several novels in progress incl co-Anne McC; recently completed Xanth guide

• 1997 second edition

Contents 1989 first edition, 178+ pages

(Acknowledgments)
(Contents)
Introduction
Overview
Fit for Human Habitation
The Red Star
From Dragonets to Dragons
Weyrlings
 with "The Impression", a short story by Anne McC, 44-52
Training and Fighting Dragons
 by Todd Johnson, 54-65
Threadfall Charts
Fort, the First Hold
Benden, the Second Weyr
Holds, Crafthalls, and Weyrs
Pronunciation Guide to Names on Pern
Sources

FAQ

PERN ORIGIN

• FAQ 2: What inspired you to write the Pern series?

Back in 1967, I was sitting in my living room in Sea Cliff, Long Island, wondering what sort of creatures I could use in my next story. Since S-F is a "what-if" form of fiction, I suddenly wondered, "what if dragons were the good guys?" Then I had to develop a planet which needed a renewable airforce against some unknown menace and came up with Pern, dragons, Thread and humans who Impressed a hatchling in a lifelong symbiotic relationship. Rather wonderful to have an intelligent partner that loves you unconditionally. Who wouldn’t like a forty-foot telepathic dragon as their best friend? By the time my (then) children got home from school, I knew how it would all start: "Lessa woke cold." I finished Weyr Search by summer and John W. Campbell bought it immediately for ANALOG Magazine and asked me to do more stories about Pern.

READING ORDER

• FAQ 10 emphasizes read Dragonflight first, without further instruction to follow publication order

CHILDREN?

• FAQ 17 "What books would you recommend to a young reader who has never read any science fiction or fantasy before?" About her own work she recommends the Pern series and "The Smallest Dragonboy" in particular.

RELIGION

• FAQ 22 "atrocities committed BECAUSE of religion" "no ORGANIZED religion was brought to Pern" by design of its founders
• see also Dragonlover's
• see also "So you're Anne McCaffrey"

INTERVIEWS

ref name=sffworld Interview with Anne McCaffrey (2000-05-08). Science Fiction and Fantasy World (SFFWorld.com). Confirmed 2011-07-12.

ref name=locus Anne McCaffrey: Heirs to Pern. Excerpts from an interview published in Locus: The magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field, Nov 2004. Locus online. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

ref name=jamneck An Interview With Anne McCaffrey (2004). By Lynne Jamneck. Writing-World.com. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

ref name=karsmakers An Interview with Anne McCaffrey (May 1994). By Richard Karsmakers. Gouda, NL: karsmakers.net. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

Karsmakers

An Interview with Anne McCaffrey. --RK May 1994. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

• biog

... I graduated from Radcliffe College cum laude in Slavonic Languages and Literatures and, although I used my languages in my first job, when the company folded, my next job was in copywriting.

• Can you give us a short description of the surroundings where you live? Its nightlife, its people?

Anne: I live in Ireland which has no nightlife to speak of, save in its pubs which I used to frequent until I got too old to drink heavily. I am in rural Ireland, 27 miles south of Dublin, between the hills and the sea, on a 47 acre farm which I own and which contains not only my house but the stables that I started in l977.

• your home

Anne: The house I now live in was designed by me for the purpose of housing all my books, artwork, papers, me and various relatives and assorted guests. ...

... five cats, one dog, one horse (but she no longer rides)

• favorite characters

Anne: Robinton's my favorite (an old Master Harper on Pern, ED.) and Afra is next on the list. I couldn't say which of my female characters I like the most - possibly The Rowan.

• other work beside the "Dragonriders of Pern"

Anne: Lordee, I've written some 42 books on my own, 13 collabs, and there're only 13 Dragonrider Books out of that total. All but 7 are s-f: the others are romances or Gothicks.

• What's the book you're most proud of?

Anne: I'm still real proud of "The Ship Who Sang" though I'm aware of its flaws, too. "All the Weyrs of Pern" comes next and then "Lyon's Pride".

• word association

Northern Ireland.

Anne: Take every kid from the age of 3-13 and educate them in another country and without emphasis on religion and the problem MIGHT clear up.

Religion.

Anne: You will notice that I don't have religion in my books. I didn't import it to Pern and resist any attempt by fans to put some there. 'God' is a private concept and should remain a personal, not a public, figure. More horror and death has been done in His name than for any other reason. I'd prefer Commercial Greed. However, I sang in a Presbyterian Choir for l8 years.

SFFWorld

Q: Of your own works which one is your favourite and why?

A: THE SHIP WHO SANG remains my favourite story possibly because I put much of myself into it: myself and the troubles I had in accepting my father's death and a troubled marriage.

Q: When you're not writing, what do you like to do to relax?

A: I used to ride horseback - I finally retired my mare - and my saddle - two years ago[1998] when it got very hard for me to swing an arthritic leg across my mare's back. Now to relax, I read - there are many, many good books out there, or surf the internet. I particularly like the NASA science news.

Q: What has the Internet meant for you as an author?

A: An excellent place to get experts in various sciences to help me develop the specific information I need in my novels.

Jamneck

An Interview With Anne McCaffrey by Lynne Jamneck. Writing-World.com. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

• she was GoH at Dragoncon 1999
• Tell us a bit about the short story "Beyond Between" in the Legends 2 Anthology from Del Rey. The story is about a very interesting facet of the Pern Universe...

When I wrote Dragonlady and allowed Moreta to go between and not come out, there was quite an outcry, including one from Judy-Lynn del Rey, my editor. She thought Moreta could have mistakenly gone to the future, or the past but that she was still alive. I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured -- since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing -- that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. However, if one listens to childhood teachings, God is everywhere so there should be no question in any mind that he is also on Pern. Thus, there is a heaven to which worthy souls go. So, without mentioning any denomination of organized religion, I figured that both Moreta and Leri deserved respite after their trials... and that's where "Beyond Between" is.

• Many people tend to see your writing as Fantasy, when in fact it's firmly based in science. Are people ever surprised when you point this out to them?

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? But I must say I get a kick out of cutting them short when they call me a 'fantasy' writer. I have nothing against fantasy and have several short novels that are definitely in that category.

• With regards to the science in your work -- how do you keep up to date with new developments in the field?

I don't keep up with developments, but I do find an expert in any field in which I must explain myself and the science involved. [example: which stars are visible on Pern and how brightly?]

• The Ship

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. This one's for you, Dad!

• What do you hope to give readers through your work?

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims. They can be survivors but I don't as a rule put 'messages' in my writing.

• Her epitaph

would be simply "Story Teller" [that's good]

Locus

ref name=locus Anne McCaffrey: Heirs to Pern. Excerpts from interview published in Locus: THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD, Nov 2004. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

• horses: "After a divorce in 1970, she and the children moved to Ireland, where she has run stables and raised horses ever since."
• motivation for scrapbook, again - another source
• roots of collaboration on Pern

Todd "grew up with the dragons, he knows the canon, and he helped me work through a couple of things. So he and my daughter Gigi (Georgeanne) have the right to continue the dragon series. I think it's splendid that someone in my family is willing to carry on a tradition.

"While he was working on it, we talked about doing a collaboration. At first it was just a matter of sharing ideas. I was blocking out what I wanted to do after All the Weyrs of Pern, and he said he had always wondered what would happen in a situation with two riders and one dragon. We started tossing this around, but he was busy getting Dragonholder done and raising a child, so I decided to start on it by myself. (He wanted me to kill a dragon! There was no way I could do it. But I could injure one very badly -- which I did.) That became The Skies of Pern."

• her best

"I think the best story I ever wrote was 'The Ship Who Sang'. It still causes people to cry, including me. ... I wrote that story because I couldn't tell my father, he died in 1953. ..."

• collaboration

She writes the outlines. Some co-authors have moved in. They negotiate.

References

isfdb letter

Publishers

Ballantine Books Del Rey Books

Transworld (company) Bantam UK Corgi

Random House Bertelsmann

Atheneum Books

Aladdin Books (4 to 12!)

now part of Simon & Schuster along with Simon Pulse

Jean E. Karl leftovers

Atheneum Books

"merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to become The Scribner Book Company in 1978. The acquisition included Rawson Associates. Scribner was acquired by Macmillan in 1984. Macmillan was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994."

Charles Scribner's Sons

In 1978 the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies, which in turn was merged into Macmillan in 1984. Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. By this point only the trade book and reference book operations still bore the original family name. The former imprint, now simply "Scribner," was retained by Simon & Schuster, while the reference division has been owned by Gale since 1999.

Macmillan Publishers (United States) Through its merger with Crowell Collier in 1961 and other acquisitions (notably The Scribner Book Companies in 1984), the U.S. publisher became a media giant in its own right, as Macmillan, Inc. It was acquired by the controversial British tycoon Robert Maxwell in 1989 and eventually sold to Simon & Schuster in 1994 (at the time, Viacom had just purchased S&S, it is now owned by CBS Corporation) in the wake of Maxwell's death (1991) and the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings. Macmillan Publishing USA became the name of Simon & Schuster's reference division. Pearson acquired the Macmillan name in America since 1998, following its purchase of the Simon & Schuster educational and professional group (which included various Macmillan properties).[1]. Pearson sold the Macmillan Reference USA division (which included Scribner Reference) to Thomson Gale in 1999.

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins.

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing.

Transworld (company)

Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing division of Random House and belongs to Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups. It was established in 1950, and for many years it was the British division of Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various best-selling authors under several different imprints. Hardbacks are either published under the Doubleday or the Bantam Press imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint.

Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today.

... In 1977, Ballantine set up Del Rey Books as a science fiction and fantasy imprint under the editorship of Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn to rival Donald A. Wollheim's launch of specialist science fiction publisher DAW Books.

... Ballantine's 3000-title backlist includes titles from several imprints. Fawcett, now home to Ballantine's mysteries, was acquired in 1982.

Cover art

The online Pern Museum includes a gallery of Official Pern Art (some commissioned but not used). It is organized by artist with notes by museum curator Hans van der Boom, some including remarks by the artist. --P64 (talk) 15:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Notes

The Skies of Pern.
The cover painting by Les Edwards may be the first one used on both UK and US first editions of Dragonriders of Pern books. See ISFDB.

done. Blue wikilinks in this incomplete list mean that I have confirmed or added External link to ISFDB. The others seem to have no wikipedia entries. The bullet point mean that their work is in the gallery of Official Pern Art.

• Other Pern cover artists in the gallery: Chris Achilleos, David Argemi, David Cherry, Victoria Poyser, David Fairbrother Roe, Colin Saxton, Wojtek Siudmak, Didier Thimonier, Boris Vallejo
• Gerald Brom

Gino d'Achille Gino d'Achille at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• Les Edwards

Edwin Herder Edwin Herder at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Tom Kidd

• Elizabeth Malczynski (Littman) Elizabeth Malczynski at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Fred Marcellino

• Rowena Morrill
• Keith Parkinson

Bruce Pennington

• Eric Peterson Eric Peterson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Steve Weston Steve Weston at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Michael Whelan
• Paul Youll

--P64 (talk) 17:04, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

2011 Note on fair use

First, visit the image (linked to the request for fair use rationale).

Talk page Reply

2011 Note. Two days later, the contributor of the image slightly revised its file: [URL Image revision, 7 June 2007].

--not my department, P64 (talk) 00:53, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Talk page Edit history

linked note that the Image contributor slightly revised its file 2007-06-07

Dedications, Acknowledgments, etc

Acknowledgments do not include copyright holders or vaguely ack'd friends(?).

1969 The Ship Who Sang, straight 1-248

Ded the Colonel, my father /George Herbert McCaffrey /citizen   soldier   patriot /for whom the ship first sang

Ack --

1969 Decision at Doona

Ded To Todd Johnson--of course!

Ack --

1969 Dragonflight

Ded

Ack

1971 Dragonquest

Ded Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey /my mother

Ack --

Dragondex 335-51 (c) 1978, Wendy Glasser

1973 To Ride Pegasus, fix-up of three with new first chapter, straight 1-243

Ded "Betty Ballantine, a woman of many talents"

Ack --

1976 Dragonsong

1977 Dragonsinger

1978 White Dragon

1979 Dragondrums

1983 Moreta

1541, present pass 3.10.43 to 3.21 + afterword 4.23 +Dragondex

Ded "my daughter Georgeanne Johnson with great affection and respect for her courage"

Ack (Author's Note) Kim; Islandia and posthumous material

"... Mind you, it was never my intention to write one trilogy, much less two, concerning the planet Pern, circling Rukbat in the Sagittarian Sector. I wrote a short story, hoping to present dragons in a favorable light, and to explore the possibilities of an equal relationship between man/woman and an intelligent alien species. That was my intention."

"For readers who have extrapolated themselves and their wishes onto Pern, I have probably not written the adventure 'you' hoped might be presented between these covers. With all the best intentions in the world, I doubt that I could write such a broadly pleasing, all-encompassing, wish-fulfilling novel. ... You have put more of yourself on Pern than I could ever imagine for your own sake. ..."

Sub: Dragonlady of Pern

Prologue xi-xvi, closing "We begin our story toward the end of the Sixth Pass of the Red Star, some fourteen hundred Turns after men first came to Pern."

1986 Nerilka, Illustrated by Edwin Herder

Ded --

Ack (Appendix drawings based on Fonstad's Atlas)

1988 Dragonsdawn

Ded Judy Lynn Benjamin del Rey

Ack "Profound Acknowledgments" "advice, assistance, and aid of Dr. Jack Cohen, D.Sc., lately Senior Lecturer of Reproductive Biology at Birmingham Universiery, England, whose expertise and enthusiasm helped me 'create' the dragons of Pern, and attendant botany/biology/ecology. Jack made fact out of myth, and science out of legend."

Harry Alm, Naval Engineer of New Orleans, Louisiana, for Threadfall Patterns

1989 Renegades

Ded

Ack

1990 The Rowan (Tower)

Prologue late 20c advance esp/paranormal/psionic

Ded Jay A Katz /we enjoy a meeting of minds

Ack --

1991 All the Weyrs

Ded Jack and Judy Cohen

Ack

1993 Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (coll)

Ded

Ack

1994 The Girl Who Heard Dragons (non-Pern coll)

Ded

Ack

"So You're Anne McCaffrey"

1994 Lyon's Pride (Tower)

Ded Matthew Hargreave, bibliographer

Ack --

1994 Dolphins

Ded

Ack

1996 Dragonseye /Red Star Rising

Ded

Ack

1997 Freedom's Choice

Ded "Jan Regan, who is more like Lessa than Lessa was. Exercising race horses is the nearest thing to riding dragons on this good earth."

Ack --

1997 Acorna's

Ded --

Ack --

1998 Masterharper

Ded

Ack

1999 The Tower and the Hive, "this conclusion of the talent series"

Ded Graham Hamilton for blue jaguars and Eddie Stobbart Hauliers

Ack Dr. Jack Cohen on colonizing hivers; Jonathan Brecher and Louis Colot on pheromones; Bibb Graves on gas chromotagraphs which measure/analyse pheromones

2000 Pegasus in Space

Ded Robert Browning quotation

Ack Dr. Steven Beard, UK Astronomy Technological Center, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (for AIM and her characters about ??)

Lowell Observatory website; DuPont Hospital for Children; JSC NASA - Controlled Environmental Life Support Systems (CELSS) update; books on Bangladesh; Registrar, Border's Hospital, Dhaka; Todd M for Lunar Insertion Moon Orbit (LIMO) solution.

Eds Shelly Shapiro, del Rey; Diane Pearson, Transworld-Corgi; Martha Tracht. copyeditor and names/relationships specialist

? retaining the premises of "The Lady in the Tower"; advancing and extrapolating "The Lady" is the genesis of Pegasus and Rowan/Tower series

2001 Skies

Ded Stephen M. Beard for putting my world in my hands

Ack astronomical help Beard; Elizabeth Kerner; Scott Manley Cosmic Impact Consultant, Armagh Observatory; telescopes and spec. impact site; Marilyn & Harry Alm, maps & diagrams; oceanographic help P. Burr Loomis, maps & diagrams; http://science.nasa.gov/headlines

2002 A Gift of Dragons (coll.)

Ded

Ack

2003 Dragon's Kin

Ded

Ack

2006 Dragon Fire, 483/90/92, 495

Ded David Gerrold

Ack --

2007 Dragon Harper, 496/97

Ded Alec A. Johnson

Ack (Authors Note) Merck Manual and The Great Influenza, past influenza epidemics

Eds Shelly Shapiro, del Rey; Judith Welsh, Transworld; Agents Diana Tyler, MBA LitA; Donald Maass, D.M. LitA

2005 Dragonsblood, 507/08, 50/56/58/59

Ded Georgeanne Kennedy

Ack Shapiro, Welsh, Maas, Tracht.; Alms, Threadfall charts; Gigi, Mom, friends; Dr Natascha Latenschauger on illnesses and genetics;

Anne's introduction: reqested by Shelly Shapiro ed.; TM previously put military experience, flight experience, knowledge of spaceships "to good use in advising me and sometimes contributing whole scenes to books like Pegasus in Space, Freedom's Challenge, and Nimisha's Ship"; "Todd was in at the beginning, and he knows Pern", "T's insight into the world and its culture is well-nigh perfectly Pernese"; ack Alms' assistance; "Not that I didn't watch him closely ... I couldn't let him make mistakes."

Banner Anne McCaffrey's /Dragonriders of Pern

2008 Dragonheart, 507/08, 498-501

Ded

Ack

2010 Dragongirl, 508

Ded Ladybug

Ack Shapiro, Tracht., Welsh, Maass; ... friends?

2011 Dragon's Time

Ded Eliza Oriana Johnson / first granddaughter, first niece: gentle, loving, brave heart

Ack one seems significant: "Don Maass, Todd's agent, for asking us to think ouside of the box—it allowed us to take Pern in a direction we had never before considered." Otherwise Anne's agent, the same three editors, and four "first readers"