Mother and son team up again (after 2008's Dragon Harper) to extend Anne McCaffrey's long-running Dragonriders of Pern series. Smooth, clear writing allows the well-realized characters to resonate ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here every Wednesday. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) Anne McCaffrey died a week and a half ago, on November 21. I never met her — she lived in Ireland in a house called ...

DUBLIN - Anne McCaffrey, whose vision of an interstellar alliance between humans and dragons spawned two dozen "Dragonriders of Pern" novels, has died in Ireland aged 85, her publisher and family ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. MC: It was the summer I graduated from eighth grade -- 1981 -- so I was ...

Territorial disputes among landed gentry. A ruling class threatened by the increasing importance of skilled craftsmen. Swords and sandals. And, most importantly, fire-breathing dragons—along with the ...

Robert's intriguing biography of the legendary Dragon Lady of Pern provides a fascinating overview of Anne McCaffrey's life along with some keen insights into how her career developed. A trail blazer, ...