Losing Anne McCaffrey

[deborahjross]

There's not much to say about Anne and all the readers and writers she inspired, that other people haven't already said a whole better. If you want to leave a public comment, feel free here or over on John Scalzi's blog Whatever.

My own personal bit is that she was lovely to my family when we visited her in Ireland, and somewhere I have a photo of her on her favorite horse, holding my 5 year old Rose on the saddle in front of her -- huge smiles all round. And it was Rose who called to tell me of her death.

Dreams and dragons and gracious ladies and horses and singers and heartache and the magic of words, we're all connected.

Comments

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I was sad to hear the news. :((

I loved reading her books when I was a teenager (and later on, too).

[missingkitsune.livejournal.com]

geez first marion now anne.
i love both writers dearly and the sense of loss is very heavy right now.

thank you once more deborah for keeping marion's stories alive. ♥

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

We are indeed seeing the passage of a generation of pioneering, inspirational women writers.

Thank you for your kind words about my continuing the Darkover series!

[bagfish.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this. Anne and MZB were the two writers who got me into SF+F and showed me that women could write it as well as the men. I could never praise one without mentioning the other. Both very different, but the work of both meant so much to me as a lonely, geeky teenager in the 1980s.

RIP Anne, you gave me a huge sense of wonder, and an aching desire for a fire lizard of my own (which still isn't quite filled even in this 40 year old woman)

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

My first love was Andre Norton. If it weren't for her -- if the only sf I'd been exposed to were the ugh Heinlein juveniles in the high school library, then I would never have discovered the genre I love. Marion came next, and then Anne and Ursula and Vonda and a host of others.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

I was sad to read about her death too...then again, she brought so much joy so there's that to remember.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

We say, "May her memory be for a blessing," and those wonderful stories are a blessing indeed!