#Anne McCaffrey

[fanaticsfiction]

Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission

Terry Goodkind: “Copyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they don’t.”

John Scalzi: “Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted material”

Diana Gabaldon: “OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I know it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.”

Robin Hobb: “Fan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.”

Anne Rice: “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.”

Anne McCaffrey: “there can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penalties…indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!”

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “No. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.”

Lynn Flewelling: “Whether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.”

Someone Else, elaborated in the notes

#anne rice #chelsea quinn yarbro #anne mccaffrey #terry goodkind #john scalzi #diana gabaldon #robin hobb #lynn flewelling

[androidsfighting]

i was a voracious reader in my youth

#dragonriders of pern #anne mccaffrey

[sbbarnes]

well, I just got polls and thought I would experiment with what that's like and now I regret my choices because now I actually want to know the real answers

(also I would personally choose Patricia C. Wrede as a gateway despite having been read Lewis and Tolkien before I turned seven on the grounds that Wrede was what made me want to read more of my own accord)

#polls! #fantasy #science fiction #tolkien #lewis #tamora pierce #dianna wynne jones #patricia C wrede #terry pratchett #mercedes lackey #anne mccaffrey #ursula k leg #also also I have left the transphobe off this list on purpose #but it bears thinking about that mercedes lackey has also espoused some fairly shitty views within and without her books

[shiftythrifting]

do used book stores count? because I'm obsessed with this already

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #anne mccaffrey #her books are solid #books

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Dragonsong #Anne McCaffrey #Dragonriders of Pern #poll #result: no #l: English

[mzminola]

Dragonflight was published in 1968.

The Environmental Protection Agency, tasked with such things as making rivers in the US stop catching on fire, clearing up smog, and so on, was not formed until 1970, and they had a lot of work ahead of them.

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which finally let women open lines of credit in their own name, was passed in 1974.

Roe v. Wade was 1973.

Pern is a fascinating look at how speculative fiction is shaped, both in the constraints and rebellions, of the time it's written.

#Pern #Anne McCaffrey #feminism #science fiction #misc meta #there is a lot about Pern that makes more sense to me #when I learn more about recent history

[lilystrations]

"Weyr of the White" Loosely inspired by one of my favorite book series' growing up, the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne (And now Todd) McCaffrey. If you're not familiar, I can't possibly recommend it enough for a unique dash of 90s/00s sci-fi/fantasy. 

#dragonriders of pern #dragonriders #pern #anne mccaffrey #todd mccaffrey #sci fi #fantasy #dragons #dragon #dragon art #art #artists of tumblr #artists on tumblr #fantasy art #digital art #artist #artesanato #art daily #no ai #photoshop #iguana boy #reptile #I absolutely devoured these books as a child #it replaced therapy #winning

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - Alchemy And Academe by Anne McCaffrey

Ballantine (1980)

#Fantasy #Anne McCaffrey #Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Alchemy And Academe #Ballantine Books #Ballentine #Vintage #Art #Wizards #1980 #1980s #80s

[copperbadge]

Did you ever read the Dragon Riders of Pern books?

I did, yes! When I was eleven or twelve, in the early 90s, I came into possession of a stash of vintage 70s Anne McCaffrey books -- the first three Dragonriders books (Flight, Quest, and White Dragon) plus the Harper books (Song, Singer, Drums) and Get Off The Unicorn, and I think Ship Who Sang and possibly Crystal Singer, most of them in the original pulp paperback. At the time she was still publishing fairly frequently so once I tore through those I started reading the rest, to the point where, when The Girl Who Heard Dragons came out when I was in my middle teens, I was caught up and super eager for the new anthology (which I adored). We didn't have a lot of money then and almost none for books I could as easily get out of the library, so getting the hardbound version with all the gorgeous Michael Whelan illustrations as a gift was a real treat.

Anne McCaffrey was essentially my introduction to adult SFF, along with Terry Pratchett beginning about a year later. She was certainly my introduction to written erotica. And her writing was a huge influence on mine structurally -- she has a pretty specific way of structuring sentences and paragraphs and when I re-read her books I can see where a lot of my prose style came from even today.

I was aware at the time that there were, shall we say, some issues with her writing, particularly surrounding consent (she acknowledges as much in Get Off The Unicorn, not that she ends up doing anything about it, ever) and I'm aware of her extremely weird and problematic statements about homosexuality. Not to mention she was one of the authors who not only didn't like fanfic but flip-flopped a bit about whether she would "allow" it to be circulated. It's a mixed legacy in general, and certainly for me. But the dragonriders books and especially Dragonsong and Dragonsinger hold a specific and special place in my heart, as does The Ship Who Searched.

#anne mccaffrey #dragonriders

[browsethestacks]

Alchemy And Academe (1980)

Art by Rowena Morrill

#Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Fantasy #Alchemy And Academe #Anne McCaffrey #Rowena Morrill #Vintage #Art #Original Art #Before And After #Wizards #Alchemy #Paperback #Paperbacks #1980 #1980s #80s

[nobeerreviews]

Step by step, moment by moment, we live through another day.

-- Anne McCaffrey

(Konstanz, Germany)

#living #another day #life #anne mccaffrey #travel photography #konstanz #germany #quote #street photography

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Cover detail from The Rowan. Anne McCaffrey. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990.

#the rowan #anne mccaffrey #rowan #books #cats #cat #space cat #book cover #book #book covers #library book #library books #illustration #detroit public library

[attorney-anon-offtopic]

Yo what is the term for the specific vibe of literature that Tamora Pierce, Dianne Duane, and Anne McCaffrey share? And how do I find more of it?

#anne mccaffrey #diane duane #tamora pierce #books #bookblr #dragon riders of Pern #tortall #young wizards

[sholindreantales]

If you grew up on Tamora Pierce’s amazing characters, Christopher Paolini’s epic stakes, or Anne McCaffrey’s dragonriders and their expanded world—you might enjoy Lecarian’s Fang. It is the first book set in the fantasy world of Sholindrea, which will only get bigger with each book and every new cast of characters. Lecarian’s Fang features shapeshifters, elves, dragons, necromancers, and more, with multiple cultures and magic systems, plus inner conflicts and subplots that deepen the epic fantasy conflicts.

#fantasy books #fantasybooklover #epic fantasy #tamora pierce #Christopher paolini #Anne McCaffrey #tortall #dragonriders of pern #pern #eragon #lecarians fang #fantasy book recs #booklover #books #bookworm #bookish #book recommendations #book recs #fantasy book recommendations

[dukeofriven]

Rereading Pern as an adult is a complex experience because Anne McCaffrey filled her books with strong female characters but boy howdy does Anne McCaffrey seem to hate women. Anne McCaffrey builds a world in which the weyrs, the home of dragons and their human riders, are promiscuous and sexually uninhibited places, and then proceeded to shame any and every woman in them who is the slightest bit promiscuous as the sluttiest slut slut who ever slutted, how dare she, what a vain and stupid whore. Every female protagonist is rigidly monogamous, bitterly jealous, resentful, and suspicious of any woman who isn't sufficiently meek towards her, and full of loathing and contempt for expansive female sexual desire. Not the men: the men get around and do so with, at most, a boys-will-be-boys eye-roll and chuckle over their multiple-partner virility, but not the women. If you are a woman and you enter the sexually promiscuous weyr culture and enjoy it, you're evil, which in McCaffrey's lens means that your are both vain and stupid, the one indivisible from the other. I'm going to out on a limb here for a moment. I've seen a lot of this in genre fiction: a particular type of woman whose beauty and vanity are so all-encompassing that it's the totality of their self. I've met plenty of vain, attractive people in my life but never once garnered the impression that, when left alone, they—like Narcissus—did nothing but stare at themselves in the mirror and think about how beautiful they are and what that does for them. And here's the out-on-a-limb part because I wasn't Anne McCaffrey and can't speak for her but—does this come out of insecurity? Did women of a certain era—the ones who wrote protagonists who were 'strangely' pretty despite not being written as resembling classic bombshells—was this their revenge fantasy? Because it always reads as personal, like they're all thinking of Debbie Fitzluder in grade 11 who was the 'prettiest' girl in school and this was what they imagined the object of their hatred did all day instead of being the tangled mess of adolescent anxieties and fears she likely was. Sure she's hot but that's all she is, she isn't clever and resourceful and cooler to hang with like me. It always feels painfully insecure, and yet I've seen male authors run with the same theme until genre fiction becomes this long exercise in insisting that women primarily do nothing but busy themselves hating and resenting other women.

#Anne McCaffrey #pern #dragons #feminism #women #fantasy #genre fiction

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Dragonflight #Anne McCaffrey #Dragonriders of Pern #poll #result: no #l: English