# RIP Anne Mccaffrey

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 22, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-anne-mccaffrey/603814 "2011-11-22T23:59:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-anne-mccaffrey/603814/41 "2011-11-27T05:00:10Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> **Dragonflight** appeared in Analog under John Campbell. That, if nothing else, proves its science fiction. People’s definition of the genre is far too restrictive these days.
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> Never made it to film because by the time the special effects could have kept up with the books, the film audience hadn’t heard of her.

Well, I was assuming animation, but anyway, you don’t think people know her books? Even if they didn’t, the stories and characters seem like a natural match for an animated or CGI-rich medium. Not _every_ film needs to be based on a hugely recognizable franchise. I think the crowd who loved “How to Train a Dragon” (or whatever its name was) would probably love this series, especially _The White Dragon_ or the Harper Hall stuff. You’d just need to cut out the whole dragon-mating / sex/rape angle.

> [@N9IWP](#):
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> I was going to post “who is your favorite Dragonrider / Dragon of Pern” thread, and nominate F’Nor / Canth as mine

Yay! I’m not alone for once. I never really liked F’lar/Mnemoth that much. F’lar wasn’t bad, but Mnemoth struck me as an egotist. I prefer my dragons more down-to-earth. (Yes, I’m aware that’s a bizarre sentence.) I suppose Jaxom/Ruth were good too, but Ruth had issues and seemed a bit too carefully constructed to be cute/pathetic/an audience-pleaser. Also, J’xom is a ridiculously difficult name to pronounce. McCaffrey really did go overboard with her apostrophes – like many a [del]fantasy[/del] sci-fi author, I suppose.

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**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-anne-mccaffrey/603814/42 "2011-11-27T05:23:16Z")

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I was very sad when I read this; the Dragonrider books have been reread many times.

Yes, the dragons and firelizards are keening…

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