Anne McCaffrey

## About the Author

* **Other Names**:
* **Genres**: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fantasy
* **Writing Style**:
* **Books:** Anne McCaffrey Books

### Biography

McCaffrey's first novel was *Restoree*, published by Ballantine Books in 1967. Unlike most science fiction books of the era, *Restoree'*s heroine is a strong-willed, intelligent woman who is willing and able to think for herself and act on her own initiative. McCaffrey was widely quoted as saying that *Restoree* was intended as a "jab" at how women were usually portrayed in science fiction.

Several of McCaffrey's series (and more than half her books) are set in a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets" ("Federation" or "FSP"). Although Pern's history is connected to the Federation, McCaffrey only used it as a backdrop for storytelling and did not consider her different "worlds" to be part of the same universe.

McCaffrey's best-known works are the *Dragonriders of Pern* series. After colonists from Earth make a decades-long journey to a new planet (which they name 'Pern', from the report of the initial exploration of the planet. Pern is an acronym for "Parallels Earth, Resources Negligible"), a volcanic eruption and an extra-planetary threat called *Thread* force the original colonists to retreat into caves in the northern hemisphere of the planet, abandoning most of their advanced technology in the process. Adopting an agrarian lifestyle, the survivors of the original expedition create genetically-engineered 'dragons' from a native species of reptiles, and use them to fight back the encroaching thread.

McCaffrey said of her collaborations with son Todd McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, "While I would dearly love to have the energy to tell a tale all on my own, I really cannot say that I am not ably represented with my collaborations". In the Pern collaboration with Todd, she was mainly "making suggestions or being a sounding board". McCaffrey also gave Todd and his sister Gigi permission to write their own stories set in the Pern universe.

McCaffrey also collaborated with author Mercedes Lackey to write *The Ship Who Searched*, the third of seven books in The Ship Who Sang series by McCaffrey and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey.
She also wrote with Elizabeth Moon for the series 'The Planet Pirates' (3 volumes)

## Series

### Federated Sentient Planets Universe

#### Dragonriders of Pern series

* Genres: Sci Fi colonization, Low Fantasy, Science Fantasy
* Theme: colonization that goes badly and they loose the technology that they brought with them, thousands of years pass and they have forgotten where they came from.

#### The Brain & Brawn Ship series

* Genres: Science fiction Cyborgs
* Theme: Human brains are transferred to ships, manufacturing, Cities and more to do valuable work such as running them, in the ships, the ships are their body.

#### The Crystal Singer Trilogy

* Genres: Science fiction
* Theme: Humans with perfect pitch, sing crystals to mine them. The crystals are in huge demand, but singing the crystals effects the humans brains. They live much longer but they loose their memories.

#### Acorna series

* Genres: YA, Alien Sci Fi
* Theme: Part of the Federated Sentient Planets Universe
* Authors: **Anne McCaffrey**. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Margaret Ball

#### Mystery of Ireta series

* Genres: Science fiction Colonization
* Theme: When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.
* Series list:

#### The Planet Pirates trilogy

* Genres: Space Opera, Space Military, Space Fleet
* Theme: All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the space lanes. In this series, survivors of Ireta and of space pirate attacks join forces.
* Co-Author: Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye

### The Talents Universe

* Genres: Psychic Abilities in Space, Space Fantasy
* Theme: The Talents universe involves a society built around the Talents of telepathic, telekinetic individuals who become integral to the connectivity of interstellar society.

#### The Talents Saga

* Genres: Space Opera, Space Exploration, Metapsychic
* Theme:

#### The Tower and Hive series

* Genres: Space Opera, Space Exploration, Metapsychic
* Theme:

#### Tales of the Barque Cats series

* Genres: Space Exploration, Animal Fiction, Metapsychic
* Theme: The Barque Cat Series tells the tale of Jubal and his Intelligent cat Chester among other Space-Faring Felines.
* Co-Author: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
* A Barque Cat is introduced in *The Rowan*.

### Doona series

* Genres: Science fiction
* Theme: Two civilizations in near-identical circumstances — an overlarge, lethargic population and a tragic history with sentient aliens — end up attempting to colonize the same planet by accident. What the humans don't know is that the people they've misidentified as nomadic natives are actually more technically advanced than themselves — and under no such illusions regarding 'them'.
* Co-Author: Jody Lynn Nye
* Series List:
	1. Decision at Doona (1969)
	2. Crisis on Doona (1992)
	3. Treaty at Doona (1994 (Originally Treaty Planet)
	4. Doona (2004) an omnibus edition of the latter two books of the trilogy,

### Petaybee series

* *Petaybee Trilogy* and *The Twins of Petaybee series*
* Co-Author: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
* Genres: Colonization, Genetic Engineering, Shapechangers
* Theme:

### The Catteni Sequence

"The Freedom series" or "Catteni Sequence" comprises one 1970 short story and four *Freedom* novels written 1995 to 2002

* Genres: Alien Invasion, SciFi Romance
	1. Freedom's Landing (A Freedom Novel Book 1) (1995) (based on the 1970 short story "The Thorns of Barevi")
	2. Freedom's Choice (A Freedom Novel Book 2) (1996)
	3. Freedom's Challenge (A Freedom Novel Book 3) (1998)
	4. Freedom's Ransom (A Freedom Novel Book 4) (2002)

## Other Works

### Novels

* *Restoree* (1967)
* *Ring of Fear* (1971)
* *The Mark of Merlin* (1971)
* *The Kilternan Legacy* (1975)
* *The Coelura* (1983)
* *Stitch in Snow* (1985)
* *The Year of the Lucy* (1986)
* *The Lady* (1987) aka *Carradyne Touch*
* *An Exchange of Gifts* (1995)
* *Black Horses for the King* (1996)
* *No One Noticed the Cat* ( (1996)
* *If Wishes Were Horses* (1998)
* *Nimisha's Ship* (1998)

### Collections

* *Get Off the Unicorn* (1977)
* *Future Love* (1977) (with Jeffrey A Carver and J Hunter Holly)
* *Habit Is an Old Horse* (1984)
* *The Girl Who Heard Dragons* (Pern) (1985)
* *A Gift of Dragons (Pern)* (2002)