Dragonwriter
“She made it a good thing—so much so that Terry Pratchett based a major character on her in his Discworld series. But before Anne McCaffrey was the Dragonlady of Dublin, she was also a pretty damn good science fiction author in her own write. And she had a singing voice that could crack mahogany.
I’ll begin at the beginning. As I have noted elsewhere, 1969 was a particularly horrible year for me. It was the worst year of my life. I won’t go into the details here; I’ll put it in a book and let yo...u pay for the privilege of sharing the horror. Two people saved my life. One was Harlan Ellison; the other was Anne McCaffrey.
I had met both of them in 1968. I met Harlan at a small Los Angeles convention in July. I met Anne two months later at Baycon, the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Hotel of Usher in Berkeley. I rode up there on my motorcycle. Despite having sold a script to that TV show (the one with the guy who had bangs and pointy ears), I was still a skinny, awkward kid who had not yet outgrown various adolescent self-esteem issues.MoreLess
I’ll begin at the beginning. As I have noted elsewhere, 1969 was a particularly horrible year for me. It was the worst year of my life. I won’t go into the details here; I’ll put it in a book and let yo...u pay for the privilege of sharing the horror. Two people saved my life. One was Harlan Ellison; the other was Anne McCaffrey.
I had met both of them in 1968. I met Harlan at a small Los Angeles convention in July. I met Anne two months later at Baycon, the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Hotel of Usher in Berkeley. I rode up there on my motorcycle. Despite having sold a script to that TV show (the one with the guy who had bangs and pointy ears), I was still a skinny, awkward kid who had not yet outgrown various adolescent self-esteem issues.MoreLess
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