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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
Are there any other interesting aspects about the Anne McCaffrey article?
Weyr Search covers the recruitment of a young woman, Lessa, to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching
What did characters in the Anne McCaffrey book Weyr Search think of the telepathic bond between Lessa and a queen dragon at its hatching?
Lessa thus becoming a dragonrider and the leader of a Weyr community

Question: Why was in so interesed in dragons?
Self-contained rewrite: Why was Anne McCaffrey so interesed in dragons?