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[sovay]

Anne McCaffrey has died.

I don't care that there are books of hers I will never be able to read again: in ninth grade, I made a blue-eyed, satin-gold fire lizard named Sheyne Meydl from a pattern I got from carik and she sits on my chest of drawers to this day, on top of the box which contains the necklace "Remember What You Say in Dreams." I read everything of hers my parents owned and scoured used book stores for the ones they didn't. Gone away, I thought of titling this post. Gone ahead. Her dragons were a great part of my imagination for years.

The OED's Word of the Day is Sturgeon's Law.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Later on, I would have a more difficult relationship with her work, it could be I expected too much, but back in the day, I wanted to be a dragonrider, and part of me always will.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh no ;_;

I loved her Dragonsong series so much--loved the idea of impressing a cloud of fire lizards.

She's another I wrote to... your posting this prompted me to find her reply....

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

whoaaa.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

It's not as unthinkable, for me, as when L'Engle died, or Diana Wynne Jones, because I came to McCaffrey late and briefly, but it's terrible to have to learn again and again that only the words live a long time.

[zdenka]

Her dragons were a great part of my imagination for years.


Mine too.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Dragonflight was the first adult novel I read, after bouncing off Eddings within pages for being too boring for me. Turns out I needed tough female characters instead. I haven't re-read McCaffrey in years, but I'll never forget how much I enjoyed those books as a teen.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

"Bloody good author." That was my mum's reaction. She's the McCaffrey fan in our family. But the dragons were there, somewhere at the back of my childhood.

- Ash

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

:(

Ditto, on all counts.