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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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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
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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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.
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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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