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What did Anne McCaffrey do with dragons?
McCaffrey's best-known works are the Dragonriders of Pern series.
When did Anne McCaffrey write dragonrider?
1967
Did Anne McCaffrey's writing win any awards?
Weyr Search won the 1968 Hugo Award for best novella
What was the story Weyr Search on?
The first Pern story, Weyr Search, was published in 1967 by John W. Campbell in Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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