Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award. Her book The White Dragon became one of the first science fiction novels ever to land on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Easton Press Anne McCaffrey books
Dragonsdawn - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1988
Dragonflight - Masterpieces of Science Fiction (signed) - 1988
Pegasus in Flight - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1990
The Chronicles of Pern - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1994
Dragonseye - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1997
Nimisha's Ship - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1999
Pegasus in Space - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2000
The Skies of Pern - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2001
Dragons Fire - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2006
Pegasus in Flight - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1990
The Chronicles of Pern - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1994
Dragonseye - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1997
Nimisha's Ship - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1999
Pegasus in Space - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2000
The Skies of Pern - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2001
Dragons Fire - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2006
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Author Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was the second of three children born to Colonel George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy. She had two brothers: Hugh ("Mac", deceased 1988) and Kevin Richard McCaffrey ("Kevie"). She attended Stuart Hall, a girls boarding school in Staunton, Virginia, but graduated from Montclair High School. In 1947 she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College with a degree in Slavonic Languages and Literature.In 1950 she married Horace Wright Johnson (deceased 2009), who shared her interests in music, opera, and ballet. They had three children: Alec Anthony, born 1952; Todd, born 1956; and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959.
Except for a short term in Düsseldorf, the family lived most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware. They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island in 1965, and McCaffrey became a full-time author.
At this stage in her career McCaffrey served a term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1968–1970. Beside handcrafting the Nebula Award trophies, the responsibilities covered production of two monthly newsletters and their distribution by mail to the members.
Anne McCaffrey emigrated to Ireland with her two younger children in 1970, only weeks after filing for divorce. Ireland had recently exempted resident artists from income taxes, an opportunity that fellow science fiction author Harry Harrison had promptly taken and helped to promote. Anne's mother soon joined the family in Dublin. The following Spring, McCaffrey was Guest of Honor at her first British national science fiction convention (Eastercon 22, 1971). There she met the British reproductive biologist Jack Cohen. He would be an important consultant regarding the science of Pern, not only its flora and fauna.
Many experiences from her own life became sources of inspiration for her writing.
Anne McCaffrey Death
The 85 year old McCaffrey died of a stroke at her home in Ireland, on 21 November 2011.Writing
McCaffrey's most famous works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. These are set on an Earth colony which has reverted to medieval times but also produced dragons. These dragons are flown by elite "dragonriders" who communicate telepathically with their dragons, and defend Pern against pernicious "threads" which cross space periodically from a nearby planetoid and threaten to destroy all vegetation on Pern. The short story "Weyr Search" (1968), the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo Award for Best Novella. McCaffrey thus became the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction.At the 2005 Nebula Award ceremonies, McCaffrey was named the 22nd Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America organization. In 2006 she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Dragons
Some time after the move to Long Island, Todd McCaffrey recalls, his mother asked him what he thought of dragons. She was brainstorming about their "bad press all these years". The result was a "technologically regressed survival planet" whose people were united against a threat from space, in contrast to America divided by the Vietnam War. "The dragons became the biologically renewable air force, and their riders 'the few' who, like the RAF pilots in World War Two, fought against incredible odds day in, day out—and won."The first Pern story, "Weyr Search", was published 1967 by John W. Campbell in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It won the 1968 Hugo Award for best novella, voted by participants in the annual World Science Fiction Convention. The second Pern story "Dragonrider" won the 1969 Nebula Award for best novella, voted annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America. McCaffrey was the first woman to win any Nebula and the first woman to win a Hugo for a work of fiction.
"Weyr Search" covers the recruitment of a young woman named Lessa to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, and thus to become a dragonrider and the leader of a Weyr community. "Dragonrider" covers the growth of queen dragon Ramoth and the training of Lessa and Ramoth. Editor Campbell requested "to see dragons fighting Thread", the menace from space; he also suggested time travel. McCaffrey put it all together. The third story "Crack Dust, Black Dust" was not separately published but provided material to fix-up all as the first Pern novel, Dragonflight (Ballantine Books, 1968).
If John Campbell was the midwife to Dragonflight, with its major components published as award-winning novellas, agent Virginia Kidd and editor Betty Ballantine provided crucial advice and assistance in the struggle with a sequel, Dragonquest. It was almost complete and the contract for another sequel was signed before the 1970 move to Ireland. Both Ballantine and fellow writer Andre Norton made suggestions for the mutant white dragon.
Readers waited a long time for the completion of the original trilogy. It did not progress until 1974/75, when the New England Science Fiction Association invited McCaffrey to its annual convention Boskone as Guest of Honor, which included the special publication of a novella for sale on site. She wrote A Time When which would become the first part of The White Dragon.
Finally The White Dragon was released beside new editions of the first two Pern books, with cover art illustrated by Michael Whelan. It was the first science fiction book by a woman on The New York Times Best Seller list and the cover painting is still in print from Whelan. The artists share some credit for their career breakthroughs.
Pern forever
She said of collaboration with Todd and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, "while I would dearly love to have the energy to tell a tale all on my own, I really cannot say that I am not ably represented with my collaborations." Doing Pern with Todd she was mainly "making suggestions or being a sounding board." According to Todd, she said that three people may write in her universe, her children Todd and Gigi, and Ceara, her granddaughter by Todd.Themes
Within the Pern Chronicles, McCaffrey explores love and emotion through the pairing of dragon and human rider, forged by a telepathic bond which enhances the emotions of the rider. The entwining of emotions allows human riders to be swept away with animalistic passion during the mating flights of their dragons, and McCaffrey uses this to develop challenging human-human relationships and contrast the sexual morals of the different parts of Pernese society. A similar enhancement of emotions is developed in the Crystal Singer stories, where crystal vibrations stored in human bodies enhance sexual connections. In some cases this leads to overloaded nerves, which is also described in the Pegasus and Tower Books. In the case of The Rowan, this became a metaphor for the dangers of immaturity in sexual relationships, whilst Afra Lyon's Talent was enhanced by long term loving partnership with Damia. The Ship who Sang and other stories about 'shell people' explore the theme of unrequited love where shell people are physically inaccessible behind a titanium wall, but still develop passionate relationships with others.Breaking of Tradition
Unsurprisingly, given McCaffrey's drive to become an independent and successful single mother at a time when divorce was frowned upon, breaking of tradition where it has become unwieldy or restrictive occurs in many of her books. In the Crystal Singer Books, Killashandra Ree helps Lars Dahl break his planet free from government brain-washing. Jeff Raven helps the Rowan break the tradition of Primes being Tower-bound in the Tower books, ending her isolation. In the Pern Chronicles devoted to the Ninth Pass, F'lar and Lessa throw aside many traditions which have become corrupted or nonsensical in changing times. The First and Second Pass stories explore the loss of Earth traditions as they become irrelevant, the loss of Earth skills with a decreasing level of technology. Both of these increase the blind following of tradition, increasing their restrictiveness or allowing them to become misinterpreted.Time and History
In the Crystal Singer stories, Anne McCaffrey explores the challenges of immortality and the personal history of memory. The Crystal Singers court the memory loss induced by the crystal they work with, and actively choose to forget the embarrassments of the past which gave them the drive to be crystal singers in the first place. When Killashandra Ree and Lars Dahl use a B&B ship, they come into contact with another long lived group of people, the 'brains' or 'shell people' of the Ship Who Sang stories. Within their shells the 'brains' experience greatly extended life spans and the grief of personal memory when their 'brawn' partners die.The Pern Chronicles refer constantly to written history and to traditions passed down from ancestors. Lessa and F'lar struggle to read decaying Records, while marveling at the artifacts and intact records which survive from the technological beginnings of the Pern colony. McCaffrey also writes repeatedly about the ability to time travel by riding a dragon between times, which throws up interesting challenges and paradoxes in many of these stories. McCaffrey herself has often 'time traveled' within the universe of her books, writing prequels such as Dragonsdawn to explain the legends of her fascinating world. In the same way, the Pegasus Trilogy explains the beginnings of FT&T, which is a central part of the scenery for events in the Tower Books.
McCaffrey also uses genealogy to connect her stories. The original Peter Reidinger in Pegasus in Flight is the great grandfather of Peter Reidinger in The Rowan. Many of the characters in the prequel Dragonsdawn are biological ancestors of characters found in Dragonflight and Dragonquest. Other founding members of the colony are immortalised in the names of places and figureheads. Todd McCaffrey uses the biological connection between two characters to guide a time traveler back four hundred years in Dragonsblood.
Music
With Anne McCaffrey's extensive musical background, it is unsurprising that music is a constant theme in her writing. Almost all of her central characters enjoy music, from Helva who enjoys Shakespeare and Dylanising, to Killashandra, the disillusioned music student whose perfect pitch allows her to cut crystal. In the Pern Chronicles, an entire subset of books revolve around the Harper Hall, with harpers responsible for general teaching, diplomacy, law and history on Pern.Old Earth
Almost all of Anne McCaffrey's books describe or refer to Earth as heavily over-populated and polluted, requiring space expansion to relieve pressure on the planet. The Pegasus stories deal with related issues of birth control, employment and subsistence living. The Tower stories describe expansion onto other planets, with Talented Primes allowing far-flung settlements to remain in contact with Old Earth, which eagerly awaits fresh resources. In the Crystal Singer trilogy, the Ballybran crystals allow mechanical means of transport and communication, and rapid diversification of human cultures in new settlements. Similarly, although the shell people of the Ship Who Sang stories were largely born and raised on Old Earth, they spend much of their lives exploring the FSP universe. The Pern Chronicles all begin with a Prologue describing humankind's expansion into space. In Dragonsdawn McCaffrey describes the pressures which the Pern colonists sought to escape in their new low-tech society, while in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall Thread forces a new wave of overcrowding, this time in the cave-dwellings used to protect the Pernese from the airborne menace.Biological change
Over the years, Anne McCaffrey's writing incorporated developments in science to evolve from fantasy to true science fiction. One of her favorite aspects of science is reflected in her constant use of the theme of biological change.One form of biological change that McCaffrey regularly writes about is genetic based. The Pegasus stories discuss a range of mutations which cause Talents such as telepathy and telekinesis. One character, Ruth Horvath, even uses telekinesis on a microscopic level to adjust DNA at the moment of conception. The Pegasus trilogy also sets up a tradition of selecting partners to breed stronger Talents, which is continued in the Tower books. In the Pern Chronicles, McCaffrey refers to the Eridani, an alien race which manipulates genetic material and then devotes multiple generations of its people to monitor the changes over thousands of years. This allows her to explain the origins of dragons, developed by the colonist Kitti Ping after her training with the Eridani. Kitti Ping's granddaughter Wind Blossom continues her mother's work, but rails against the Eridani traditions, a storyline which mingles two key McCaffrey themes.
McCaffrey takes pains to assure her readers that mutations are often beneficial. Shell-people in the Ship Who Sang stories are able to overcome deformities via shell-technology and live fulfilling lives. Ruth, the White Dragon, is a sport whose mutations give him unique equipment to play a vital role in saving Pern.
Anne McCaffrey books
Federated Sentient Planets universe
While many of McCaffrey's most famous works are set in a universe which is governed by The Federated Sentient Planets or "FSP", these are not set in the same universe. The FSP is a story telling background that the author has found to be a useful tool for this series.Dragonriders of Pern series
"Weyr Search" (novella, first published in Analog, October 1967"Dragonrider" (novella first published in Analog, December 1967
Dragonflight (1968) (comprised of "Weyr Search" and "Dragonrider") ISBN 0-345-45633-5, ISBN 0-552-08453-0
Dragonquest (1970) ISBN 0-345-33508-2
"The Smallest Dragonboy" (appeared in Science Fiction Tales ed. by Roger Elwood, 1973)
A Time When (1975) (NESFA Press) ISBN 0-915368-07-2
(became the first part of The White Dragon)
Dragonsong (1976) ISBN 0-689-86008-0
Dragonsinger (1977) ISBN 0-689-86007-2
The White Dragon (1978) ISBN 0-345-34167-8
Dragondrums (1979) ISBN 0-689-86006-4
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983) ISBN 0-345-29873-X
Nerilka's Story (1986) ISBN 0-345-33949-5
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (novella, 1986, also included in the non-Pern collection of the same name)
Dragonsdawn (1988) ISBN 0-345-36286-1
The Renegades of Pern (1989) (Included "The Girl Who Heard Dragons") ISBN 0-345-36933-5
All the Weyrs of Pern (1991) ISBN 0-345-36893-2
"Rescue Run" (1991) (a short story; appeared in Analog, v111 #10, August 1991)
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993) ISBN 0-345-36899-1 (Pern short story collection)
"The Survey: P.E.R.N." (also appeared in Amazing, September 1993)
"The Dolphins' Bell"
"The Ford of Red Hanrahan"
"The Second Weyr"
"Rescue Run" (1991)
The Dolphins of Pern (1994) ISBN 0-345-36895-9
Red Star Rising (Hardback) and Red Star Rising: Second Chronicles of Pern (Paperback) (1996) ISBN 0-552-14272-7
(called Dragonseye for U.S. release, ISBN 0-345-41879-4)
The Masterharper of Pern (1998) ISBN 0-345-42460-3
"The Runner of Pern" (1998) (a short story; included in the Legends anthology edited by Robert Silverberg ISBN 0-312-86787-5.)
The Skies of Pern (2001) ISBN 0-345-43469-2
A Gift of Dragons (2002) ISBN 0-345-45635-1 (Pern short story collection)
"The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973)
"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986)
"Runner of Pern" (1998)
"Ever the Twain" (2002)
Dragon's Kin (2003) (with her son Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-46200-9
"Beyond Between" (2003) (a short story; included in the Legends II anthology edited by Robert Silverberg ISBN 0-345-45644-0.)
Dragonsblood (2005) (Written by Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-44124-9
Dragon's Fire (July 2006) (with her son Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-345-48028-7
Dragon Harper (December 2007) (with her son Todd McCaffrey)
Dragonheart (November 2008) (Written by Todd McCaffrey)
Dragongirl (2010) (Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 0-593-05587-X
Dragon's Time (June 2011) (Anne & Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 978-0-345-50089-2
Dragon's Time (June 2011) (Anne & Todd McCaffrey) ISBN 978-0-345-50089-2
Sky Dragons (July 2012, by Anne and Todd McCaffrey; sequel to Dragon's Time; published after Anne's death)
The Brain & Brawn Ship series
The stories of this series deal with the various adventures of 'shellpersons' - people who as young children or infants have had to be hardwired into a life support system, with sensory input and motor nerves tied into a computer. They serve as starship pilots or colony administrators while paying off their debt for education and hardware - and then in whatever capacity they choose, as free agents.
It should be noted that the Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books, as Brainship-Brawn pairings were characters in the second and third volumes of that series.
The Ship Who Sang (1969) (short story collection with stories from 1961, 1966, and 1969) ISBN 0-345-33431-0
PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-671-72109-7
The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey, ISBN 0-671-72129-1
The City Who Fought (1993) with S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87599-X
The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87657-0
This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye:
The Ship Errant (1996) by Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87854-9
The Ship Avenged (1997) by S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87861-1
Omnibus versions of the above novels:
Brain Ships (2003) (includes The Ship Who Searched and Partnership) ISBN 0-7434-7166-0
The Ship who Saved the Worlds (2003) (includes The Ship Who Won and The Ship Errant) ISBN 0-7434-7171-7
The City and the Ship (2004) (includes The City Who Fought and The Ship Avenged) ISBN 0-7434-7189-XThe Crystal Singer series
The Crystal Singer series revolves around the planet Ballybran. Under a permanent biohazard travel restriction, Ballybran is home to one of the FSP's wealthiest, yet most reclusive organizations—the Heptite Guild. Source of invaluable crystals vital to various industries, the Heptite Guild is known to require absolute, perfect pitch in hearing and voice for all applicants, especially those seeking to mine crystal by song...
Crystal Singer (1982) ISBN 0-345-32786-1 (first published in four parts in Continuum 1, 2, 3, & 4, edited by Roger Elwood)
Killashandra (1986) ISBN 0-345-31600-2 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, in a minor role. This was not a main character in any novel.)
Crystal Line (1992) ISBN 0-345-38491-1 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, although not a main character in any novel, and, furthermore, is not the same Brainship from 'Killashandra')The Dinosaur Planet series
When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.
Dinosaur Planet (1978) ISBN 0-345-31995-8
Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984) ISBN 0-345-27246-3
Mystery of Ireta (2003)—omnibus edition of Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, ISBN 0-345-46721-3The Planet Pirates trilogy
All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the spacelanes. In this series, survivors on Ireta and survivors of space pirate attacks join forces.
Sassinak (1990-03-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-69863-X
The Death of Sleep (1990-06-01) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-69884-2
Generation Warriors (1991-02-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-72041-4
The Planet Pirates (1993-10-01)—omnibus trade paperback collection of the above trilogy, ISBN 0-671-72187-9
Note: The Planet Pirates and Dinosaur Planet books share the same universe and certain characters. The events of Dinosaur Planet overlap with the final chapters of The Death of Sleep, as does Dinosaur Planet Survivors with Sassinak; Generation Warriors continues and concludes the storylines of both series.Standalone novels
Restoree (1967) ISBN 0-552-08344-5
The Coelura (1983) ISBN 0-312-93042-9
A Diversity of Dragons (1997) with Richard Woods, illustrated by John Howe
Nimisha's Ship (1998) ISBN 0-345-43425-0
The Coelura is short novel in the same universe as Nimisha's Ship.
The Coelura is usually printed together with Nerilka's Story.
The Talents universe
The Talents universe involves a society built around the Talents of telepathic, telekinetic individuals who become integral to the connectivity of interstellar society.The Talent series
To Ride Pegasus (1973) (short stories) ISBN 0-345-33603-8
Pegasus in Flight (1990) ISBN 0-345-36897-5
Pegasus in Space (2000) ISBN 0-345-43467-6The Tower and Hive series
The Rowan (1990) (partly based on the short "Lady in the Tower" 1959) ISBN 0-441-73576-2
Damia (1991) (partly based on the short "A Meeting of Minds" 1969) ISBN 0-441-13556-0
Damia's Children (1993) ISBN 0-441-00007-X
Lyon's Pride (1994) ISBN 0-441-00141-6
The Tower and the Hive (1999) ISBN 0-441-00720-1The Doona series
Two civilizations in near-identical circumstances - an overlarge, lethargic population and a tragic history with sentient aliens - end up attempting to colonize the same planet by accident. What the humans don't know is that the people they've misidentified as nomadic natives are actually more technically advanced than themselves - and under no such illusions regarding 'them'.
Decision at Doona (1969) ISBN 0-345-35377-3
Crisis on Doona (1992) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-23194-2
Treaty at Doona (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-00089-4
Doona (2004) an omnibus edition of the latter two books of the trilogy, ISBN 0-441-01131-4
The Petaybee Series (Powers series)
Powers That Be (1993) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Power Lines (1994) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Power Play (1995) with Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughThe Twins of Petaybee series
Changelings (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47002-8
Maelstrom (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47004-4
Deluge (2008) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47006-0The Freedom series
Freedom's Landing (1995) (based on the 1970 short story "The Thorns of Barevi")
Freedom's Choice (1996) ISBN 0-441-00531-4
Freedom's Challenge (1998) ISBN 0-441-00625-6
Freedom's Ransom (2002) ISBN 0-441-01020-2The Acorna series
Acorna the Unicorn Girl (1997) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105789-4
Acorna's Quest (1998) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105790-8
Acorna's People (1999) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105983-8
Acorna's World (2000) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105984-6
Acorna's Search (2001) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81846-9
Acorna's Rebels (2003) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81847-7
Acorna's Triumph (2004) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81848-5Acorna's Children series
First Warning (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-052539-8
Second Wave (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052540-1
Third Watch (2007) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052541-XShort Story Collections
Get Off the Unicorn (1977) ISBN 0-441-00338-9
"Lady in the Tower" (1959) (part of The Rowan)
"A Meeting of Minds" (1969) (part of Damia)
"Daughter" (1971)
"Dull Drums" (1973)
"Changeling"
"Weather on Welladay" (1969)
"The Thorns of Barevi" (1970) (part of Freedom's Landing)
"Horse From a Different Sea"
"The Great Canine Chorus" (1971)
"Finder's Keeper" (1973) (a Talent story)
"A Proper Santa Claus" (1973)
"The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973) (a Pern story, appears in A Gift of Dragons)
"Apple" (1969) (a Talent story, appears in To Ride Pegasus)
"Honeymoon" (a Helva & Niall Brain & Brawn story)
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994) (contains one Pern story by the same name) ISBN 0-8125-1099-2
"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986) (a Pern story, appears in A Gift of Dragons)
"Velvet Fields" (1973) Worlds of If, Nov/Dec 1973
"Euterpe on a Fling"
"Duty Calls" (1988) (The Fleet)
"A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty" (1990) (The Fleet)
"The Mandalay Cure" (1990) (The Fleet)
"A Flock of Geese" (1985)
"The Greatest Love" (1977)
"A Quiet One" (1991)
"If Madam Likes You..." (1989)
"Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the Damnyankees" (1992)
"Cinderella Switch" (1981)
"Habit Is an Old Horse" (1979)
"Lady-in-Waiting" (1978)
"The Bones Do Lie"Romances
The Mark of Merlin (1971) ISBN 1-58715-493-5
Ring of Fear (1971) ISBN 1-58715-016-6
The Kilternan Legacy (1975) ISBN 1-58715-793-4
Stitch in Snow (1985) ISBN 0-8125-8562-3
The Year of the Lucy (1986) ISBN 0-8125-8565-8
The Lady (1987) ISBN 0-345-35674-8
Three Women contains the first three listed in an omnibus edition.
Fantasy for Juveniles
An Exchange of Gifts (1995) ISBN 1-880448-48-3
No One Noticed the Cat (1996)
If Wishes Were Horses (1998)
Black Horses for the King (1998)Cookbooks
Serve it Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey
Cooking out of this World; Edited by Anne McCaffrey, a collection of cookable SF-Recipes
The Brain & Brawn Ship series
The stories of this series deal with the various adventures of 'shellpersons' - people who as young children or infants have had to be hardwired into a life support system, with sensory input and motor nerves tied into a computer. They serve as starship pilots or colony administrators while paying off their debt for education and hardware - and then in whatever capacity they choose, as free agents.It should be noted that the Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books, as Brainship-Brawn pairings were characters in the second and third volumes of that series.
The Ship Who Sang (1969) (short story collection with stories from 1961, 1966, and 1969) ISBN 0-345-33431-0
PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-671-72109-7
The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey, ISBN 0-671-72129-1
The City Who Fought (1993) with S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87599-X
The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87657-0
This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye:
The Ship Errant (1996) by Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87854-9
The Ship Avenged (1997) by S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87861-1
Omnibus versions of the above novels:
Brain Ships (2003) (includes The Ship Who Searched and Partnership) ISBN 0-7434-7166-0
The Ship who Saved the Worlds (2003) (includes The Ship Who Won and The Ship Errant) ISBN 0-7434-7171-7
The City and the Ship (2004) (includes The City Who Fought and The Ship Avenged) ISBN 0-7434-7189-X
The Crystal Singer series
The Crystal Singer series revolves around the planet Ballybran. Under a permanent biohazard travel restriction, Ballybran is home to one of the FSP's wealthiest, yet most reclusive organizations—the Heptite Guild. Source of invaluable crystals vital to various industries, the Heptite Guild is known to require absolute, perfect pitch in hearing and voice for all applicants, especially those seeking to mine crystal by song...Crystal Singer (1982) ISBN 0-345-32786-1 (first published in four parts in Continuum 1, 2, 3, & 4, edited by Roger Elwood)
Killashandra (1986) ISBN 0-345-31600-2 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, in a minor role. This was not a main character in any novel.)
Crystal Line (1992) ISBN 0-345-38491-1 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series above, although not a main character in any novel, and, furthermore, is not the same Brainship from 'Killashandra')
The Dinosaur Planet series
When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.Dinosaur Planet (1978) ISBN 0-345-31995-8
Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984) ISBN 0-345-27246-3
Mystery of Ireta (2003)—omnibus edition of Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, ISBN 0-345-46721-3
The Planet Pirates trilogy
All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the spacelanes. In this series, survivors on Ireta and survivors of space pirate attacks join forces.Sassinak (1990-03-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-69863-X
The Death of Sleep (1990-06-01) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-69884-2
Generation Warriors (1991-02-01) with Elizabeth Moon, ISBN 0-671-72041-4
The Planet Pirates (1993-10-01)—omnibus trade paperback collection of the above trilogy, ISBN 0-671-72187-9
Note: The Planet Pirates and Dinosaur Planet books share the same universe and certain characters. The events of Dinosaur Planet overlap with the final chapters of The Death of Sleep, as does Dinosaur Planet Survivors with Sassinak; Generation Warriors continues and concludes the storylines of both series.
Standalone novels
Restoree (1967) ISBN 0-552-08344-5The Coelura (1983) ISBN 0-312-93042-9
A Diversity of Dragons (1997) with Richard Woods, illustrated by John Howe
Nimisha's Ship (1998) ISBN 0-345-43425-0
The Coelura is short novel in the same universe as Nimisha's Ship.
The Coelura is usually printed together with Nerilka's Story.
The Talents universe
The Talents universe involves a society built around the Talents of telepathic, telekinetic individuals who become integral to the connectivity of interstellar society.The Talent series
To Ride Pegasus (1973) (short stories) ISBN 0-345-33603-8Pegasus in Flight (1990) ISBN 0-345-36897-5
Pegasus in Space (2000) ISBN 0-345-43467-6
The Tower and Hive series
The Rowan (1990) (partly based on the short "Lady in the Tower" 1959) ISBN 0-441-73576-2Damia (1991) (partly based on the short "A Meeting of Minds" 1969) ISBN 0-441-13556-0
Damia's Children (1993) ISBN 0-441-00007-X
Lyon's Pride (1994) ISBN 0-441-00141-6
The Tower and the Hive (1999) ISBN 0-441-00720-1
The Doona series
Two civilizations in near-identical circumstances - an overlarge, lethargic population and a tragic history with sentient aliens - end up attempting to colonize the same planet by accident. What the humans don't know is that the people they've misidentified as nomadic natives are actually more technically advanced than themselves - and under no such illusions regarding 'them'.Decision at Doona (1969) ISBN 0-345-35377-3
Crisis on Doona (1992) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-23194-2
Treaty at Doona (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-441-00089-4
Doona (2004) an omnibus edition of the latter two books of the trilogy, ISBN 0-441-01131-4
The Petaybee Series (Powers series)
Powers That Be (1993) with Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughPower Lines (1994) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Power Play (1995) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Twins of Petaybee series
Changelings (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47002-8Maelstrom (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47004-4
Deluge (2008) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-345-47006-0
The Freedom series
Freedom's Landing (1995) (based on the 1970 short story "The Thorns of Barevi")Freedom's Choice (1996) ISBN 0-441-00531-4
Freedom's Challenge (1998) ISBN 0-441-00625-6
Freedom's Ransom (2002) ISBN 0-441-01020-2
The Acorna series
Acorna the Unicorn Girl (1997) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105789-4Acorna's Quest (1998) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-06-105790-8
Acorna's People (1999) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105983-8
Acorna's World (2000) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-105984-6
Acorna's Search (2001) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81846-9
Acorna's Rebels (2003) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81847-7
Acorna's Triumph (2004) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-380-81848-5
Acorna's Children series
First Warning (2005) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ISBN 0-06-052539-8Second Wave (2006) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052540-1
Third Watch (2007) with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ISBN 0-06-052541-X
Short Story Collections
Get Off the Unicorn (1977) ISBN 0-441-00338-9"Lady in the Tower" (1959) (part of The Rowan)
"A Meeting of Minds" (1969) (part of Damia)
"Daughter" (1971)
"Dull Drums" (1973)
"Changeling"
"Weather on Welladay" (1969)
"The Thorns of Barevi" (1970) (part of Freedom's Landing)
"Horse From a Different Sea"
"The Great Canine Chorus" (1971)
"Finder's Keeper" (1973) (a Talent story)
"A Proper Santa Claus" (1973)
"The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973) (a Pern story, appears in A Gift of Dragons)
"Apple" (1969) (a Talent story, appears in To Ride Pegasus)
"Honeymoon" (a Helva & Niall Brain & Brawn story)
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1994) (contains one Pern story by the same name) ISBN 0-8125-1099-2
"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986) (a Pern story, appears in A Gift of Dragons)
"Velvet Fields" (1973) Worlds of If, Nov/Dec 1973
"Euterpe on a Fling"
"Duty Calls" (1988) (The Fleet)
"A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty" (1990) (The Fleet)
"The Mandalay Cure" (1990) (The Fleet)
"A Flock of Geese" (1985)
"The Greatest Love" (1977)
"A Quiet One" (1991)
"If Madam Likes You..." (1989)
"Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the Damnyankees" (1992)
"Cinderella Switch" (1981)
"Habit Is an Old Horse" (1979)
"Lady-in-Waiting" (1978)
"The Bones Do Lie"
Romances
The Mark of Merlin (1971) ISBN 1-58715-493-5Ring of Fear (1971) ISBN 1-58715-016-6
The Kilternan Legacy (1975) ISBN 1-58715-793-4
Stitch in Snow (1985) ISBN 0-8125-8562-3
The Year of the Lucy (1986) ISBN 0-8125-8565-8
The Lady (1987) ISBN 0-345-35674-8
Three Women contains the first three listed in an omnibus edition.
Fantasy for Juveniles
An Exchange of Gifts (1995) ISBN 1-880448-48-3No One Noticed the Cat (1996)
If Wishes Were Horses (1998)
Black Horses for the King (1998)
Cookbooks
Serve it Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffreyCooking out of this World; Edited by Anne McCaffrey, a collection of cookable SF-Recipes
Source and additional information: Anne McCaffrey