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 ...

Today marks the end of an era: author Anne McCaffrey passed away at the age of 85, from a stroke at her home in Ireland. I remember the first time I saw an Anne McCaffrey book: I was in a used ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - Anne McCaffrey, a science-fiction writer widely known as the Dragon Lady for her best-selling series of young-adult novels, “Dragonriders of Pern,’’ died Monday in County Wicklow, Ireland.

The very first thought I had when the wonderful dragons in James Cameron's Avatar appeared on-screen was that Cameron must do a Pern movie. Because his dragons were Anne McCaffrey's dragons made real.

Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern book series has garnered generations of fans. Now it’s about to be translated for the screen by the screenwriter for Watchmen and X2, David Hayter. According to ...