Thoughts on Anne McCaffrey's Work?
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Thoughts on Anne McCaffrey's Work?
Just out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the works of Anne McCaffrey? Do you like them? Why/Why not? What are some of your favorite books of hers?
Personally, I love Anne McCaffrey's work; I find it incredibly entertaining, full of likable characters, exciting action, and excellent humor. Some of my favorites are: the Tower and the Hive series, Dragonsinger and the Crystal Singer Trilogy.
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Anne McCaffrey's work should be given to any young child as mandatory reading to allow that child's imagination to grow beyond the limits of what they can perceive the world to be. I know that this seems outlandish but i just really found her work really unique and how she had an innocent view of how special abilities like magic could benefit society that i found particularly charming.Greg_Seebregts wrote: ↑12 Dec 2017, 00:24 Hi All
Just out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the works of Anne McCaffrey? Do you like them? Why/Why not? What are some of your favorite books of hers?
Personally, I love Anne McCaffrey's work; I find it incredibly entertaining, full of likable characters, exciting action, and excellent humor. Some of my favorites are: the Tower and the Hive series, Dragonsinger and the Crystal Singer Trilogy.
Her Tower and the Hive Series, in particular had a great mixture of Metaphysical & Psychic combat combined with Awesome Space Military Combat that is unique to read.
Her Dragonriders of Pern Series is a great decades spanning series of books of a world where all manner Dragons exist alongside our protagonists. It is a joy to see the series characters and their descendants grow and change over time.
Lastly her Crystal Singer Trilogy is a fantastic science fiction series with a great story and scope with characters with special abilities and unique and interesting alien species and worlds. It was a great series and i wished that she had written more books in that series.
Given her range of writing ability i think that she is a great author and would recommend her books to anyone.
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The first is the Pegasus trilogy. The second entry to the story/series is the Rowan books which takes place about about 5 generations later.
The last part of the story/ series trilogy are the books in the Hive books. I have read and enjoyed all of them.
I have also read several of the Pern series and stand alone books. I enjoyed these stories but have not read them all. I don't believe I have read any of the books her son Todd has written.
The first series of hers I read was the brainship stories. The first book I discovered was called The Ship Who Sang. This series also included non- ship stories like The City That Fought.
Other series of hers I have enjoyed include the Freedom, Doonia (Ms?) and Crystal Singer.
I didn't like the Powers To Be and I have not read her other series.
A couple of her stand alone books I have read are The Year of the Lucy and one I Have to check the title of that is about a prince/ruler that has been overthrown and is helped by a woman from Earth who is also being held captive.
I know this has been a long entry but there are so many of her books worth reading.
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Anne McCaffrey wasn't perfect, but she was a visionary and a trailblazer in sf/f. I know reading her work as a kid did my imagination a world of good.
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I appreciate some of the other series you have recommended by her. I will have to check them out as I believe I have only read her Pern books and a few of her stand-alone novels.
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