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.

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[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.